Apr 21, 2021
Bikrant Tiwary, the CEO of Grow-Trees.com says, “We cannot flip a switch overnight and change the world. It will take a lot of sustained effort to restore forests, protect biodiversity, wildlife habitats and replenish natural resources. This year’s theme is, ‘Restore Our Earth,’ and it reminds us that not just humanity but the earth is reeling from the negative impact of the pandemic. That is why we have set ourselves the goal of planting the 7 million saplings that are now in our nurseries across the country. We are waiting for the monsoon season to begin our plantation drive and will continue to work towards improving environmental markers.”
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Mar 17, 2021, 11:50 IST
As India celebrated
World Wildlife Day this month, an inferno continued to rampage across eight of the 21 forest ranges of Odisha s Similipal National Park. It continues to endanger mammals, amphibians, birds, butterflies, and over 94 species of orchids and many indigenous trees specific to the region. But this disaster is not an exception as more than 36% of Indian forest cover is prone to frequent forest fires, according to a World Wildlife Day (FSI).
This coupled with rapid deforestation has endangered India’s flora, which is one of the richest and most diverse in the world. Experts estimate that there are over 18,000 species of flowering plants and more than 50,000 species of plants, including endemics in the country. India s forest cover also ranges from the tropical rainforests, grasslands, deciduous and coniferous tracts with a wide variety of pine, fir, spruce, cedar, larch, and cypress trees lending to India’s indigenous biodive
Mar 13, 2021, 11:30 AM IST
New Delhi: For most of us, 2020 was the year of reckoning when a global pandemic forced everyone to pause and reassess our relationship with nature. But for rural communities, it was a time of acute economic distress, unemployment and untold hardship. During this unprecedented time, one social enterprise was not just greening denuded tracts of community land and replenishing water bodies but also supporting rural communities to earn their livelihood with dignity.
Over 2.6 million trees were planted in 2020 with the help of locals and migrants that were hit hard by reverse migration. This way, they not only got immediate employment opportunities but could also extract benefits from the fruit, fodder and other forest produce by selling the excess amount in times to come.
Updated Feb 20, 2021 | 16:25 IST
Plantation drives also improved the environment in tangible ways. Water tables were expected to rise due to the growing vegetation, conflicts between humans and animals were reduced. Tree plantation near sanctuary
Key Highlights
During the pandemic in India more than 2.6 million trees were planted in India, providing rural employment during the pandemic
Plantation drives were carried out with the employment of local communities on tracts of deforested community land across the country
The plantation drives also improved the environment in tangible ways
Jaipur: For many of us, 2020 was the year of reckoning when a global pandemic forced us to pause and reassess our relationship with nature. But for rural communities, it was a time of acute economic distress, unemployment and untold hardship. During this unprecedented time, one social enterprise was not just greening denuded tracts of community land and replenishing w