Q.Describe the role played by local women, such as Gaura Devi and the women of Reni village, in the Chipko Movement.

Women played an especially prominent and often leading role in the Chipko Movement, since it was frequently women -- who did much of the daily work of collecting fuelwood, fodder and water from the surrounding forest, and who were therefore most directly affected by its degradation -- who confronted loggers directly. In one of the most widely told episodes of the movement, associated with the village of Reni, women led by Gaura Devi confronted a party of loggers who had arrived to fell trees while many of the village's men were away, successfully persuading and physically preventing the loggers from proc …

Explain WHY women were so central (their daily dependence on the forest for fuelwood/fodder/water) before naming the specific Reni/Gaura Devi episode - …

Do not describe the Reni episode vaguely as 'villagers protested' without noting that it was specifically women, led by Gaura De …