WE CAN SOLVE OUR ECOLOGICAL CRISIS AND REVERSE CLIMATE CHANGE BY REWILDING OUR FORESTS AND RECONNECTING PEOPLE TO NATURE

PASSING OF A LEGEND 

The recently deceased Sunderlal Bahuguna was a beacon of the Indian environmental movement . A home-grown environmentalist who steered a spontaneous ‘Chipko Movement’ of the 1970s into a strong people’s movement and saved the forests of the great Himalayas and the forest-based livelihoods of its indigenous communities was a living image of unfettered dedication.

Best finding ever: Coffee waste is great for growing forests

In March, the ‘British Ecological Society’ reported an unexpected finding of a study: Spreading coffee pulp, a waste product from coffee production, over degraded lands helps them recover quickly. According to the report, the study’s researchers (from ETHZurich and the University of Hawaii) spread 30 truck loads of coffee pulp on a 35X40m area of degraded land in Costa Rica. In only two years, the area treated with coffee pulp had not only turned into a small forest, but it was rich in nutrients including carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus. This has turned out to be great news for degraded agricultural lands that have poor soil quality!

Check the ECOSIA BROWSER to help PLANT TREES:

https://www.ecosia.org/?c=en 

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