FRED HAGENEDER’S GATEWAY TO THE MEANING OF TREES IN CULTURE AND CONSCIOUSNESS

THE MEANING OF TREES

WORLD TREE NEWS

Dongria Kondh demo. © Survival International

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.

Bishop of London planting a yew tree. © Bankside Press

The Bishop of London planted a yew tree to emphasize ‘the Church's long heritage of caring for God's creation’ and its Shrinking the Footprint campaign.

Logo der Pan-African Agency of the Great Green Wall

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.

Aerial view of the Pastaza River © Ammit Jack/shutterstock.com

Not only the climate of South America depends on the ‘water management’ of the Amazon rainforest but the global climate of the entire northern hemisphere.

Tamarisk trees (Tamarix articulata) in the Sahara. © RosaFrei/istockphoto.com

The work on the Green Wall of China began in 1978. So far, forests have been planted in thirteen provinces of China, covering 54 million acres (22m ha).

SM Raju at a tree-planting site. © Prashant Ravi

An single man in India has created an innovative programme to provide 'sustainable employment' to millions of poor people, by planting billions of trees.

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