Ten Forest Crusaders Of India Who Created Man-Made Forests & Sanctuaries, One Sapling At A Time Sandeep Saxena – Founder, Aranyaani In Madhya Pradesh, IIT-IIM alumnus Sandeep Saxena seems to have found an ancient solution to thwart an impending agricultural crisis – by planting over 6000 acres of ‘food forests’. “We are basically structuring a proper forest, but a sizeable part of it can come in use for human consumption, but only up to a certain limit that does not affect the ecological balance,” he shares with Efforts For Good . His organisation Aranyaani is raising ‘food forests’ in 2500 acres of fallow lands in the central state. Aranyaani is also assisting farmers to manage such food forests on their own landholdings, amounting to another 4000 acres approximately. Vishweshwar Dutt Saklani (Tree Man) Uttarakhand’s Vishweshwar Dutt Saklani was a staunch conservationist, who started planting trees when he was just eight years old and continued the practice diligently ...
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Tress are the Lifeline of the Humans No, they are the lifeline of the world! We Know the effects of their decrease. In coming 5 to 10 years, the whole world will experience the drastic climate changes. We might not prevent the coming changes, but we can reduce or slow down the process. Decrease in forest is also affecting the farmers due to monkeys coming into farmlands and destroying the cops. There are many NGO's, People, govt's planting trees. But will that be sufficient? We have to increase the forest area. There are many unused lands. We can convert them into small...