<P> In recent years, the movement not only inspired numerous people to work on practical programmes of water management, energy conservation, afforestation, and recycling, but also encouraged scholars to start studying issues of environmental degradation and methods of conservation in the Himalayas and throughout India . </P> <P> On 26 March 2004, Reni, Laata, and other villages of the Niti Valley celebrated the 30th anniversary of the Chipko movement, where all the surviving original participants united . The celebrations started at Laata, the ancestral home of Gaura Devi, where Pushpa Devi, wife of late Chipko Leader Govind Singh Rawat, Dhoom Singh Negi, Chipko leader of Henwalghati, Tehri Garhwal, and others were celebrated . From here a procession went to Reni, the neighbouring village, where the actual Chipko action took place on 26 March 1974 . This marked the beginning of worldwide methods to improve the present situation . Recently, by following the legacy of the Chipko movement, in 2017 rapid deforestation over the century - old trees, forming almost a canopy in Jessore Road of the district of North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, has also flicked off a huge movement in the form of the campaign of saving 4000 trees by the local masses . </P> <P> On 26 March 2018, Chipko movement a conservation initiative was marked by Google Doodle on its 45th anniversary . </P> <P> Also, locals of Delhi with a major support of NGOs initiated another Chipko movement in Delhi to avoid cutting of 16500 trees and saved Delhi from making worst GAS CHAMBER . </P>

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