DH News Service, Sirsi: Soil, water and forest are the basis of human life and they should be conserved for the future generation, environmentalist Sundarlal Bahuguna said here on Sunday. Addressing a gathering after planting saplings in the premises of Salkani Secondary School to commemorate the silver jubilee year of Appiko movement in Sirsi taluk for conservation of trees. The Appiko movement was a revolutionary movement based on environmental conservation in India. The "Chipko Andolan" (Hug the Trees Movement) of Sunderlal Bahuguna in Uttarakhand in the Himalayas inspired the villagers of the Uttara Kannada district to launch a similar movement to save their forests. In September 1983, men, women and children of Salkani "hugged the trees" in Kalase forest. The movement was called