Grow Trees

Goa is giving its trees a chance to breathe again. With a new ‘No-Concrete Zone’ rule, the state is removing suffocating concrete from around tree bases, offering space for roots to thrive.

Amid threats to India’s trees, organisations like Siruthuli, Grow-Trees, Green Yatra, and others are creating green corridors, conserving biodiversity, and turning barren lands into forests.

Rambhai Charan, a 62-year-old retired primary school teacher in Gujarat’s Sabarkantha district, has single handedly planted more than 5 lakh trees in his village.

What’s more? Sundaram Verma from Sikar district has also saved seven lakh litres of rainwater in just a couple of days!

From establishing a seed bank, to building and maintaing ponds, the many steps that helped revive the deforested Orans in Rajasthan.

Earth Day has arrived. And most of us are still using the old excuse of lack of time and resources to contribute towards our planet. But Pradip Shah has a simple and inexpensive solution for the super busy.

Daripalli Ramaiah is a man on mission to plant trees and bring back the green cover. Wherever he sees a barren spot, he takes out seeds from his pocket and plants them. People say he has planted over a crore trees. Know more about the unsung hero and his extra ordinary work.

Deforestation in the country is not news anymore. With rapid industrialization and rising needs, we have been cutting down trees for quite some time. Now there is an immediate need to bring back the green cover, and Vodafone India, along with Grow-Trees, has taken a positive step in this direction. They have started planting 300,000 trees along the Kanha-Pench corridor. The saplings selected are of native and useful species in order to create an extra income source for the villagers. Here we profile the salient features of this initiative, which can serve as a case study for more projects of a similar nature.