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.
Say Trees, an NGO that focusses on planting trees in Bengaluru is helping farmers in rural Andhra Pradesh plant fruit trees as an alternate source of income. This is how.
A software engineer from Chhattisgarh came to Bengaluru 11 years ago. Concerned about the decreasing green cover in the city, he started planting trees on weekends in the year 2007. In the past eight years he has planted over 35,000 saplings and organized numerous plantation drives.