#SayTrees Plant Forests #WATWB

The best news from the #WATWB In Darkness, Be Light for us is when we hear of a positive action for the sustenance of our Mother Nature. We celebrated Earth Day a couple of days ago so talking about how we can nurture our planet back to good health felt right for my post for the We Are The World Blogfest.

A group of school students have set up an example that all of us can support in our own way. Planting a single tree to growing a forest, each small action matters. I have shared about composting and trees earlier as well.

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SayTrees plants saplings and supports them to become trees. At SayTrees we have been creating urban and rural forests, support farmers with fruit trees, rejuvenate lakes and water bodies and install solar lamps in villages. SayTrees does all this with support from individuals and corporates which wish to bring change to the society under their CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) initiatives. Find out more here –SayTrees is an NGO in India.

Located in the Hennagara village of Karnataka, a government school celebrated the anniversary of planting 5,500 trees on World Earth Day on its premises. The trees were planted as saplings just a year ago by the students of this school with the help of SayTrees, a voluntary group.

The forest is grown through the Miyawaki plantation method, which involves the plantation of native species of plants close to each other where saplings are placed randomly on the forest bed ensuring that no two similar varieties are adjacent to each other.

Your cohosts for this month are:  Shilpa Garg, Inderpreet Uppal, Peter Nena, Lizbeth Hartz, Eric Lahti.Please link to them in your WATWB posts and go say hi!

Once again, here are the guidelines for #WATWB

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