Buddhist monks ordain trees
The monks of the Samraong Pagoda received the 2010 Equator Prize for saving evergreen forest in northwest Cambodia by ordaining venerable trees as monks.
FRED HAGENEDER’S GATEWAY TO THE MEANING OF TREES IN CULTURE AND CONSCIOUSNESS
The monks of the Samraong Pagoda received the 2010 Equator Prize for saving evergreen forest in northwest Cambodia by ordaining venerable trees as monks.
A global programme to protect sacred sites and their biodiversity as well as cultural practices from industrialization, urbanization, and tourism has begun.
The tree that once gave Anne Frank solace as she was hiding from the Nazis fell in a storm in August 2010, but cuttings have been taken and will be planted.
The Indian Dongria Kondh tribe has won a ‘David and Goliath’ battle to save their land and sacred mountains from a multinational bauxite/aluminium company.
The Great Green Wall aims to halt the spread of the South Sahara. At 9 miles wide and 4,800 miles long it equals the reforestation of 37 million acres.
An single man in India has created an innovative programme to provide ‘sustainable employment’ to millions of poor people, by planting billions of trees.
The insurers of a village council bullied the councilors to fell the old Lucombe oak due to a fungus infection, but a citizen’s campaign saved the tree.
Clayoquot Sound continues to be at the forefront of old-growth forest conservation on Vancouver Island, merging First Nations’ values into national law.
Environmental organisations support First Nations’ land-use planning initiatives into law, furthering protection for sacred trees in the old-growth forest.
The Youth Climate Coalition was founded to challenge the roots of social and climate injustice, for a future where we enjoy and protect a healthy planet.
The monks of the Samraong Pagoda received the 2010 Equator Prize for saving evergreen forest in northwest Cambodia by ordaining venerable trees as monks.
A global programme to protect sacred sites and their biodiversity as well as cultural practices from industrialization, urbanization, and tourism has begun.
The tree that once gave Anne Frank solace as she was hiding from the Nazis fell in a storm in August 2010, but cuttings have been taken and will be planted.
The Indian Dongria Kondh tribe has won a ‘David and Goliath’ battle to save their land and sacred mountains from a multinational bauxite/aluminium company.
The Great Green Wall aims to halt the spread of the South Sahara. At 9 miles wide and 4,800 miles long it equals the reforestation of 37 million acres.
An single man in India has created an innovative programme to provide ‘sustainable employment’ to millions of poor people, by planting billions of trees.
The insurers of a village council bullied the councilors to fell the old Lucombe oak due to a fungus infection, but a citizen’s campaign saved the tree.
Clayoquot Sound continues to be at the forefront of old-growth forest conservation on Vancouver Island, merging First Nations’ values into national law.
Environmental organisations support First Nations’ land-use planning initiatives into law, furthering protection for sacred trees in the old-growth forest.
The Youth Climate Coalition was founded to challenge the roots of social and climate injustice, for a future where we enjoy and protect a healthy planet.