The ‘Koti Vruksha Abhiyana’, a massive plantation drive under Minister M. B. Patil, Ministry of Large and Medium Industries and Infrastructure has successfully planted 1.30 crore trees in Vijayapura, Karnataka, in collaboration with the local forest departments and NGOs since its inception in 2015. During FY2021-22, the Koti Vruksha Abhiyan succeeded in achieving its ambitious goal of planting one crore …
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Until one afternoon last August, Cedar Rapids had always been a lush, leafy island surrounded by a sea of corn and soybeans, with its giant oaks, sycamores and other trees towering over the community’s neighborhoods and providing a shady refuge from Iowa’s steamy summer heat. As Shannon Ramsay, who heads the nonprofit group Trees Forever, put …
