Sunderlal Bahuguna

Sunderlal Bahuguna
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Bahuguna in October 2010
Born(1927-01-09)9 January 1927[1]
Maroda, Tehri Garhwal, Uttarakhand, British India[2]
Died21 May 2021(2021-05-21) (aged 94)[3]
Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India[3]
Occupations
SpouseVimla Bahuguna
Children3

Sunderlal Bahuguna (9 January 1927 – 21 May 2021) was an Indian environmentalist and Chipko movement leader. The idea of the Chipko movement was suggested by his wife Vimla Bahuguna and him. He fought for the preservation of forests in the Himalayas, first as a member of the Chipko movement in the 1970s, and later spearheaded the anti-Tehri Dam movement from the 1980s to early 2004.[4] He was one of the early environmentalists of India,[5] and later he and others associated with the Chipko movement and started taking up wider environmental issues, such as being opposed to large dams.[6]

  1. ^ Sharma, Seema (10 January 2018). "Dams paving way for more calamities: Sunderlal Bahuguna". The Times of India. Retrieved 17 October 2018.
  2. ^ Bahuguna betterworldheroes.com.
  3. ^ a b "Environmentalist Sundarlal Bahuguna dies of Covid at AIIMS-Rishikesh". The Times of India. 21 May 2021. Retrieved 21 May 2021.
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  5. ^ Sunderlal Bahuguna, a pioneer of India's environmental movement... The New York Times, 12 April 1992.
  6. ^ "Remembering Sundarlal Bahuguna Ji: A Freedom Fighter Who Took the Chipko Movement to the World". 22 May 2021.