WORLD TREE NEWS

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 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.

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.

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.

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).

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