[HimVani] INVITATION for VRIKSH PLANTATION
Surender Dhaleta
Hi friends,
Meesha, asked a timely question in one of the mails about the tree plantation. Finally, the event is taking place tomorrow on August 5. here's the invitation for all of you.
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From: bhakti bhakti <simplylive@gmail.com>
Date: 03-Aug-2007 09:40
Subject: INVITATION for VRIKSH PLANTATION
To: Varun Rattan Singh <varun.ratan@gmail.com>, Varun Rattan Singh <varun.ratan@himvani.com>, Dhaleta Surender Kumar <
dhaleta@himvani.com>, Surender Dhaleta <dhaleta@gmail.com>
My dear Tree Parents,
You already know everything. Only wish to send you all the formal invitation for that day too.
I know this invitation is coming late, for those who could indeed manage to come here. This is only our first. There are many more to come.
In anycase, if anyone of you could still make it (those in Dehli, i hope you'll are listening), it would be our pleasure to have you'll with us.
From ISBT 7.50pm Haryana Roadways, Semidelux. Reaches here 8am. I would be there to recieve you.
Incase you need any other details please feel free to enquire with me.
Love
Bhakti
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INVITATION for a TREE PLANTATION @ Tashi Jong
Vriksh, a Tree Planting Consultancy along with Khoj – Information Center & Helpline at Tashi Jong, together are organizing a Tree Plantation this season.
We have come a long way to bring this day together. Though it may be a small place, however most of the activities from clearing the land, digging pits, making fences etc., have all been done with the help of the youth of both the Local & Tibetan Communities along with the unconditional support of the Forest Department (Baijnath Range). All this has been done under the guidance of Dr. Nag (Retd. Project Officer – Medicinal Plants & Aromatic Plants, Department of Ayurveda, Government of India).
Out of the 300 trees, 150+ trees have been sponsored by Tree Parents from all across the world (Finland, Germany, Canada, Mumbai, Ahemdabad and more).
Both communities will come together along with the Local MLA – Sudhir Sharma and the President of Tashi Jong – Popa Rabjam to plant 300+ trees.
That is why this day has a special significance in our lives where we are
Planting trees to cross boundaries & more…
We invite you all to
join in and support this effort by
"Sowing seeds" for a greener tomorrow.
Come Celebrate this day with us.
On 5th August 2007
Schedule
10.30am Introduction…
11.00am Short Street Play (nukkad)
11.45am TREE PLANTATION
12.15pm Tea & Snacks for all
Place : Tashi Jong, Near Taragarh Palace, 4 kms from Baijnath
A little about Vriksh & Khoj…
So how does Vriksh function?
Vriksh helps organizations towards
- raising funds,
- acquiring land to plant trees,
- building broader networks,
- planting trees
- Conducting Environment Awareness Building sessions (talking about One Planet Living which includes Zero Waste Management Systems and more) amongst children, individuals and communities through Film Festivals, Exhibitions and other media
- Organizing and attending workshops on Global warming issues
- Building and sharing knowledge
- Helping set up an Information Center – Khoj (if the organization does not already have a local unit of their own)
Khoj, its supporter, will be located locally, wherever Vriksh gets to plant trees. Khoj, works as an information center which would meet mundane needs of the community and build deeper relationships and friendships to help further the objectives of Vriksh.
What are Vriksh and Khoj all about?
The aims of Vriksh & Khoj is not solely to get trees planted but to help reduce the ecological footprints to sustainable levels.
This would be achieved through actually planting trees and through advocacy and outreach programs.
Khoj would bring people from the community together, mobilize them and work towards building community and individual ownership towards the land they would plant.
Vriksh is a consultancy that would also plant its trees by digging pits themselves, where need be, put up fences, study the eco-system to find the best suited trees and face hurdles (political or otherwise) as and when they arise.
Vriksh aims to enjoy what they do by helping keep this planet…
…Clean, green, and a beautiful place to live in
By not only Planting Trees but
Planting seeds in the minds of people for a Greener tomorrow
our campaign this time...
vriksh ke raksha, bhavishya ki suraksha
Vriksho Rakshati Rakshatah
(the one who protects trees will be protected)
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Subhash Mendhapurkar
Instead of planting trees, one should plant grasses (of improved varities)
and bushes, they not only help in preserving soil, but are of daily use to
people - especially poor.
Tree plantation is a Forest Department driven program and not pe4ople driven
program.
Subhash Mendhapurkar
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Trilok Singh
It is great to know about Vrikssh Plantatopn. Go Ahead and save your loved
land.
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Sorry for being a little critical here. During the Art of Living Bsic course a year back, one of the key thing I learnt was "never throw water on someone's enthusiasm".
Bhakti and team have done a great job at this Tree Plantation ceremony. Maybe you could participate in the ongoing activities of Tree plantation and include planting varieties of grasses. Your participation would be helpful; more hands, more minds and hearts working together can bring about greater change.
By the way Trees (Leaves, Wood) are the single most biggest source of Bio-Mass for the villagers all across India, apart from being an important source of nutrition for humans and animals alike. I am not an expert on Himachal/Uttaranchal and thus cannot comment on this region though.
Thanks,
Rahul
Instead of planting trees, one should plant grasses (of improved varities)
and bushes, they not only help in preserving soil, but are of daily use to
people - especially poor.
Tree plantation is a Forest Department driven program and not pe4ople driven
program.
Subhash Mendhapurkar
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meesha tandon
Sorry for being a little critical here. During the Art of Living Bsic course a year back, one of the key thing I learnt was "never throw water on someone's enthusiasm".
Bhakti and team have done a great job at this Tree Plantation ceremony. Maybe you could participate in the ongoing activities of Tree plantation and include planting varieties of grasses. Your participation would be helpful; more hands, more minds and hearts working together can bring about greater change.
By the way Trees (Leaves, Wood) are the single most biggest source of Bio-Mass for the villagers all across India, apart from being an important source of nutrition for humans and animals alike. I am not an expert on Himachal/Uttaranchal and thus cannot comment on this region though.
Thanks,
Rahul
On 8/5/07, Subhash Mendhapurkar <sutrahp@gmail.com> wrote:Instead of planting trees, one should plant grasses (of improved varities)
and bushes, they not only help in preserving soil, but are of daily use to
people - especially poor.
Tree plantation is a Forest Department driven program and not pe4ople driven
program.
Subhash Mendhapurkar
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I agree with "not throwing water on someone's enthusism," even if
someone's ideas might be seeming immature to us.
It goes to the credit of Bhakti and her associates at Khoj is that
they took up action on something that deeply concerns them - and
should concern us too. If at all they make some mistakes somewhere in
their quest for a better tomorrow, then mistakes are an essential
part of a learning process; we all have developed our learnings in
life by making mistakes ourselves (or learning from other peoples'
mistakes).
I am not a dedicated tree lover as most of our urban friends are.
Their stand is justified in their own way, considering the perpetual
scarcity of clean air in the cities. Having lived in Himachal for
sometime I also understand that our planners' enthusiasm to see trees
on 50% of the land has played havoc with the ecology and peoples'
livelihoods. Most of the plantations that we have in the lower
altitudes of the state are those of Chir pines. While these
plantations may lend a verdant look to the landscape, look beneath
the surface and you shall find a combination of obnoxious weeds,
eroded top-soil, exposed under-strata and inflammable leaf litter of
pines. These plantations are set fire to almost every year by the
locals in the hope of getting those few blades of grass which they
used to get before most common grasslands and scrub forests were
planted with monocultures of Pines. This act triggers the cycle of
degradation which ends with the land becoming devoid of soil and the
local biodiversity. There is no solution to ecological rehabilitation
of these plantations but to convert them into mixed specie stands
with trees/shrubs/grasses/creepers that provide the local people with
some benefits and increase their stake in protecting the forest. A
debate on whether trees are better than shrubs/grasses holds no
significance as all of these are nature's creations and all have
their own different comparative advantages(even Pine trees for that
matter, if planted judiciously). Moreover, if a piece of land in
enclosed for the protection of the planted trees, the grass yeild
will increase. Also improved grasses, shrubs and creepers can be
added to the area if the local people express the need.
Sadly the functioning of the Forest Department during the past
century and a half of implementing colonial policies has alienated
the common people in the villages from their forests. Forests which
were once common property are now considered government property.
Hence the notion that anything concerned with the forests should be
on the government's agenda and not the people's; including planting
trees on forest land/protecting them/making systems of sharing of
benefits from forest resources. Until all of us, the Forest
Department employees, the people's advocates and the people
themselves efface this notion, forest resources in our state will
keep getting degraded and decimated, affecting ecosystem conservation
and people's livelihoods.
Rahul Saxena.
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--- In himvani@yahoogroups.com, meesha tandon <mishatandon@...> wrote:
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> I completely agree. I am presently doing a hydrological study and
conducted some tests in Shimla which strongly show that forests are
very very much needed in this hard rock area to maintain a flow in
the streams during summers. If deforestation continues at the present
pace, then water in the streams of Himalayas might just go on
reducing and you can imagine the extent of problem we are talking
about here as these areas donot have a groundwater source which can
supplement the water requirements like the plains
> Regards
> Meesha
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Trilok Singh
Why not hold a conference of the forest lovers from all over India and abroad
to be able to make qualified recommendations for the Public and the
authorities likewise as what to do and how to do?
This conference may also pass recommendations to the lagislature to pass
such bills as to liberate the forest lands from the colonial legacy.
Trilok Singh
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The species that were heavily planted during the seventies and the
eighties in the lower altitudes were Chir pine, Eucalyptus and Khair (out
of which Katha is made). In fact, rich and natural scrub forests were
destroyed over large areas during these decades in the name
of 'improvement forestry' and planted with these commercial species.
The plantation of Eucalyptuses was recognised by the government as
unsuitable for HP in 1984 and their plantaion on government land was
ordered to be stopped through a government notification. However, we have
evidence of this specie having been planted in an area within the state
in recent years.
Chir pines are by far are the biggest of the forest department's
favourites ; apart from the technical rhetoric about its being a
pioneering specie (a specie that is amongst the first ones to come up in
a destabilised area), it is hardy, fire resistant and the acidic leaf
litter discourages the growth of many other species underneath. It is
ideal for the achievement of afforestation targets(without much needed to
be done in community mobilisation and consensus building) by the
department employees ; no animals eat it, unlike other fodder trees that
fulfil the daily needs of the people. Chir pines were being planted in a
big way till the time people started isolated protests in villages against
new plantations.
Devdar definitely has lesser detrimental impacts on the ecology than
pines, probably due to the lesser volume of the leaf litter. But they
belong to different climatic zones: devdar's prime habitat is in a higher
altitude than the pines.
Rahul Saxena.
meesha tandon wrote:
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>Hi,
> Does anyone know what species have been planted? I would imagine
that
Deodar would be ecologically preferable over Pine. Does anyone have any
knowledge on these factors?
> Meesha
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