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The man who taught India to hug trees © Reuters Sunderlal Bahuguna was India s best-known environmental activist We are doing violence towards the earth, towards nature. We have become butchers of nature, Sunderlal Bahuguna once told an interviewer. Bahuguna, who died of Covid-19 on Thursday aged 94, was known the world over as the man who taught Indians to hug trees to protect the environment. He was one of the main leaders of the Chipko movement in northern India in the 1970s. In Hindi, chipko literally means hugging . Heeding calls by Bahuguna and fellow activist Chandi Prasad Bhatt, men and women in the Indian Himalayas embraced and chained themselves to trees to stop loggers from cutting them down. It was a powerful symbol that conveyed, Our bodies before our trees .

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