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The central motivation of the present paper is to trace out the tactics used during the Chipko movement. To protect their forests and natural resources (jal, jungle, zameen) from the external bodies, native residents came up with some unique strategies that primarily acted as an awareness method within the region but soon propagated Chipko as an ecological movement. The study is exploratory and in the present paper, how locally originated strategies were initiated as a medium of communication has been explored. The curiosity of the present paper lies in the fact that in the absence of any refined communication method within the region how merely their concern towards trees turned it into Chipko as an environmental conservation movement. The study is exploratory in nature and data has been gathered from the village areas where Chipko movement was conducted. The data has been analyzed via simple percent analysis. The result of the study approves that although the past movements have contributed Chipko to shape up as the movement but it was innovative methods and collective efforts of country-dwellers, local leaders, women, and enthusiastic workers who collectively practiced and brought up some unique indigenous communication methods that sustained the movement for the longer time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]