Giant Trees for Climate Change Mitigation in India

by Applied Environmental Research Foundation(AERF)
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Giant Trees for Climate Change Mitigation in India
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Giant Trees for Climate Change Mitigation in India
Giant Trees for Climate Change Mitigation in India
Giant Trees for Climate Change Mitigation in India
Giant Trees for Climate Change Mitigation in India
Giant Trees for Climate Change Mitigation in India
Giant Trees for Climate Change Mitigation in India
Giant Trees for Climate Change Mitigation in India

Project Report | May 22, 2017
Assessing the habitat study of giant trees

By Jayant Sarnaik | Project leader

AERF team carried out community surveys and habitat study of 50 giant trees from Sangameshwar block in Ratnagiri district in Northern Western Ghats. The study clearly shows the immense ecological value of the big trees. As many as 82 different bird species were documented that are using these trees as habitat, 20 species of butterflies were also documented.

Some of the trees documented were as old as 300 years! The social surveys revealed that quite few owners were understanding the importance of these giant trees while some of those are bit uncertain and were thinking of selling the trees. Through rewards and incentives the project will be able to deal with those confusions and misunderstandings effectively.

In the next quarter we will approach the community representatives and individual owners for felicitating them for keeping those trees standing over generations. Your small support will prove yet again vital to keep those giants standing for ever. Thus do consider supporting this campaign as we have a target of saving 1000 trees.

Last but most important, 3 of our individual donors - Mr.Shyam Kane, Mr. Eduard Niesten and Ms. Ann Armbrecht all of them from USA visited our project region and actually saw the Giants and understood first why we need to preserve them.


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Applied Environmental Research Foundation(AERF)

Location: Pune, Maharashtra - India
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Twitter: @AERFConserve
Project Leader:
Jayant Sarnaik
Pune , Maharashtra India
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