Source Name: Grow-Trees
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Social Organization Achieves Massive Milestone of Planting 10 Million Trees Across IndiaThe Enterprise Grow-Trees has undertaken huge afforestation projects to protect wildlife, expand green cover and provide livelihoods | ||
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Even before India announced its emission-neutrality aim at the CoP-26 summit held in Glasgow, the country at different points in history, has witnessed citizen-led environmental movements like 'Chipko' and government led initiatives. Grow-Trees.com is however a one-of-a-kind social organisation that builds synergies between corporate entities, individuals, forest departments and local communities to undertake massive afforestation. This year it has reached a remarkable milestone by achieving the goal of planting 10 million trees across India. Founded in 2010, Grow-Trees.com is now counted among the largest non-governmental organisations in the world and has generated over 7,53,000 (and counting) employment days, helped conserve wildlife corridors and worked tirelessly for forest restoration.
Kanha-Pench Corridor, Maharashtra, India
With the help of a web-enabled, cost-effective method that can be used by individuals and companies to donate, plant and gift trees, the social enterprise has done its bit to not just spread awareness about climate change but also enabled climate action. Bikrant Tiwary, CEO Grow-Trees.com says, "Right from the onset, our plan was to follow intention with action and once we identified a zone that needed green cover urgently, we created a blueprint in keeping with specifics of topography, indegenous plant species, the needs of local communities, the challenges being faced by wildlife and then proceeded systematically with afforestation projects in over 23 states. Till now we have covered more than 4,500 hectares of land in India."
Bikrant Tiwary, CEO Grow-Trees
The projects are named after the causes they support and these include Trees for Forests and Wildlife, Trees for Himalayan Biodiversity, Trees for Rivers, Trees for Tigers, Trees for Tribal Communities, Trees for Coastal Ecosystems, Trees for Urban Landscape, Trees for Memories, Trees for Wellness and more.
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