About SayTrees:
SayTrees is a professionally run group of ordinary people extraordinarily determined to protect the environment not just by themselves, but also by sensitizing others towards the importance of environment conservation and guiding them on to participate in tree-plantation campaigns. Though it started off as single sapling planted in 2007 now it does more than 50 tree plantation drives in 4 months of monsoon. SayTrees spearheads a variety of initiatives including research, education, sensitization and advocacy around the importance of environmental preservation and tree plantation. The group thrives on its vast volunteer base that runs into thousands, from young children to busy professionals, housewives and retired citizens. Today, SayTrees organizes tree plantations and drives various initiatives across several Indian cities. We create forest using Miyawaki method of tree plantation which gives a 100 year old forest in 10 years and which is 30 times more dense.
Quoted from the video info:
"Our forests are growing. And growing well.
Thanks to Nischitha Shenoy for this amazing video about how these urban forests and changing landscape of our cities. These forests have been created around lakes, parks, schools etc. And people are thrilled that their 2-4 hrs of volunteering can give this to the city. Each forest is taken care of properly and hence the result.
Special thanks to all nature lovers who have been part of this journey to create many carbon sinks for the city. Special thanks to all corporates who joined hands with SayTrees and supported these forests in the city under their CSR Initiatives.
Increasing green cover of cities, one FOREST at a time.
See how the urban forests we are creating are changing the landscape of cities. These dense forests will act as carbon sink for the cities in future as they are 30 times more dense as compared to traditional forests. The saplings grow 10 times fast so within 2 years we have a dense green patch of land.
SayTrees has created 15 Miyawaki forests so far with more than 70,000 saplings. More than 7000 volunteers have been part of these forests. Forests have been created in Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and soon we will have forests in Noida, bhubaneswar and other cities.
This is our fight for RIGHT TO CLEAN AIR!!!"
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