Archive for the ‘Global Reforestation News’ Category

Income for the poor through planting trees!

24/10/2009

SM Raju is a civil servant in the Indian state of Bihar who has taken a novel approach to improve the poors life circumstances and at the same time enhance the environment for generations to come. What he calls “social forestry programme” takes advantage of the central government’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), which [...]

  • Share/Bookmark

One man’s work

13/10/2009

Amai Mahalinga Naik, an illiterate farm worker who used to harvest coconuts as a freelancer dreamed of his own plot of land. One farmer satisfied with Amai’s work helped him to get two acres of barren land on a hilltop from the government. When Amai got the land nothing was growing there and there was [...]

  • Share/Bookmark

114 Million Trees for Tamil Nadu, India

18/09/2009

申し訳ありません、このコンテンツはただ今 English のみです。

  • Share/Bookmark

While some talk, others act!

2/09/2009

Africa’s Sahel has been on the front line of the much discussed global warming trend for the past 30 years or more. What is undeniable is that the droughts are getting worse as the weather gets more extreme.
To fight this trend the leadership of Eritrea, one of the world’s smallest, newest, most underdeveloped countries, started [...]

  • Share/Bookmark