“Trees are our closest relationship. What they exhale, we inhale. What we exhale, they inhale. This is a constant relationship that nobody can afford to break or live without."And we as human beings who are largely responsible for the most of the environmental hazards that are being posed today due to our intervention onto the environmental balance
Much of the environmental hazards faced by us today can be linked to large scale cutting down of trees (deforestation). It is not enough that we just stop our activities now at the present time of crisis but reverse the conditions with speedy and large scale planting of trees (afforestation)
Project green hands is one such initiative that aims at retaining 33% Earth’s green cover that is ideal to sustain life. They have planted 8, 52,587 tree saplings on a single day during last year to inspire the people for this drive that holds the Guinness record for most number of trees planted on a single day.
They aim to plant 114 million trees by the year 2010 in the entire state of Tamil Nadu and selected locations in the states of Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Orissa and in the Union Territories of Pondicherry and Delhi .
The action plan for this year 2007 is to plant 25 million tree saplings in different parts of Tamil Nadu.
The project requires public support through awareness, a huge cost that is involved in planting and maintaining such large number of saplings and networking a large number of volunteers and rural people. This project in addition to its intended environmental benefits also provides livelihood for those rural people who are involved in preparing the nurseries of plant saplings, planting and maintaining them.
Hereby I am obliged to pass on the information of the initiatives taken by Project Green Hands. PFA more information about this project and you can visit the link
via http://www.projectgreenhands.org
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