familial forestry

Environmentalist and teacher Shyam Sunder Jyani led a massive campaign with over 2,500 villagers to restore 84 hectares of gypsum-mined wasteland in Rajasthan. By fostering community involvement and planting native species, the initiative transformed barren land into a thriving wildlife haven.

From the inclusion of an eighth vow in a wedding ceremony and celebration of diwali to death of a person, Professor Shyam Sunder Jyani is helping integrate sapling plantation in almost every custom that is practised in villages of Rajsthan.