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प्रश्न
Write a short note on 'Chipko Andolan' (Hug the Trees Movement).
उत्तर
'Chipko Andolan' was started by the common people to conserve the forests. The movement originated in a remote village named Reni, in Garhwal. In this movement, when the workers of a contractor came to cut the trees, in absence of the men of the village, all the women clasped the tree trunks in order to save the trees.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
List two main causes of the pollution of water of the river Ganga. State how pollution and contamination of river water prove harmful for the health of the people of neighbouring areas.
Out of the two-reuse and recycle-which, in your opinion, is better to practise? Give reason.
List two items which can be easily recycled, but we generally throw them in the dust-bins.
What are the different ways in which water gets contaminated?
Why does the increased level of nutrients in the water affect the survival of aquatic organisms?
In a village, farmers started cultivating crops all around a lake which was always filled with water. They added lot of materials W to the soil in their fields to increase the yield of crops. Soon they found that the whole surface of water in the lake was covered with a green layer made up of tiny organisms X. After some time, the fish present in the lake started dying in large numbers because they could not get sufficient Y due to a process Z which had occurred in lake water and drained out all the Y present in the water of lake.
(a) What do you think materials W are?
(b) Name (i) X, and (ii) Y.
(c) What is the process Z known as?
(d) What happens during the process Z which uses up all the Y present in lake water?
(e) What does this example tell us about the use of materials like W?
Suggest some approaches towards the conservation of forests.
List five things you have done over the last one week to −
increase the pressure on our natural resources
Expand the abbreviation GAP.
