20 December 2008

afforestation programme


Another response to the global warming situation here is the tree planting programme is SAAP : Sakthi Amma's Afforestation Programme. Here the local hills (you can see them in the background), which are the Kaileshgiri, home of Shiva. Since 2003 the SAAP programme has planted 100 000 trees a year...



...that makes 500 000 trees planted so far...
The hills are government land and it took a little over a year to get the approval to plant the trees.
Here's a shot of the hills close up...

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