Healthy Forests Healthy Waters
The Healthy Forests Healthy Waters program offers private landowners in Maryland, United States a cost-free opportunity to establish new woodland cover on their property. As of the end of 2022, … Read More
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The Green Nation Initiative of Uzbekistan
In November 2021, Uzbekistan’s President Shavkat Mirziyoyev launched an ambitious new initiative, called “Yashil Makon”(Green Nation), that aims to plant 1 billion trees and shrubs across the country over the next … Read More
Costa Rica’s Inspiring Example of Forest Conservation
Costa Rica has become the first country in Latin America and the Caribbean to receive payments from the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility for reducing carbon emissions from deforestation … Read More
The Restoration of South American Forests
The Atlantic Forest, which straddles Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay, is renowned for its variety of landscapes, which run the gamut from swamps to montane forests. However, centuries of intensive logging … Read More
Restoring a Sacred River
The Ganges basin is home to 520 million people along with more than 25,000 species of plants and animals. The region is responsible for 40 percent of India’s gross domestic … Read More
Success of Plantation Drives in Uttar Pradesh
The Indian state Uttar Pradesh planted over 30 crore saplings on 22 July 2023, as a part of the its massive annual plantation drive, Vriksharopan Janandolan 2023. From 2017-18 to … Read More
The Green Garland of Telengana
The city of Hyderabad in Telangana, India, was announced as the grand winner of the prestigious ‘World Green City Award 2022’ by AIPH. The inaugural Awards ceremony took place on … Read More
Project Bamboo Village India
The article describes the bamboo plantation activities undertaken by TreePle Charitable Trust (an Indian NGO) and potential positive outcomes of these activities being carried out under the initiative ‘Project Bamboo Village India’.