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Activity 8 Creative Thinking Environmental
Literacy

Knowledge
ICT ICT Skills of India

You read about how the poet loved trees in the poem titled ‘Trees’.
Do you know about the Chipko Movement, organised in India to resist

deforestation in 1970s? It was a non-violent movement by the villagers
of Uttarakhand, particularly women, aimed at protecting trees.
Look up the Internet and find out more about the movement. Write a
paragraph on it below.

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