"Chipko andolan " is considered to be an important step to end the alienation of people from their forests. justify this statement.

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Chipko andolan is a movement started in the early 1970s in the Garhwal Himalayas of Uttarakhand where people were used to hug the trees to protect them from being felled. This step had created a strong bonding between the people and forest and also realize them that how impotant the forests are for the survival of biodiversity. That is why this movement was considered as a important step to end the thinking that forests are not important and separate from the people.

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