Tree plantation at Gunjur social forest with EMC

Life has conducted tree plantation event at Gunjur social forest with sponsorship from EMC.

The event was conducted on May 22nd and 23rd with participation of more than 50 volunteers along with the Joy of giving week program. Also, this marked 1st tree plantation event in the Forest department Bengaluru, East and South Zone.

Plantation was conducted at Gunjur Social forest with guidance and support from RFO Ganesh V planting with variety of native saplings like, Neem, Honge, Fig, jumbu nerale, Naaye nerale and hippe species. These species were selected to promote local biodiversity to support various birds like Drangos, Cormorants,  egrets, cranes, red vented bulbuls, barn owl, kingfishers, green bee eaters, Ashley prinia, cuckoos, bees and insects. It is important to have a man made social forest along the city outskirts to provide natural habitats.

A demo was given to each batch of volunteers and encouraged to plant further, 200 pits were dug and was a easy task for the team to organize themselves. Each pit was moistened for easy penetration for the roots with a bucket of water, sapling were tied to pole ensure grow vertically, and then pit was closed by making small water collection area around the sapling during rain.

Once planting is done, watering will be done to all the saplings. Further, pictures will be uploaded in Google Picasa in the link mentioned below.

Team work was exhibited and female volunteers have done their physical task indeed well. We had interesting conversation with various question on events, eco consciousness to understand aspects on biodiversity.

On the 1st day around 80 saplings were planted and on the 2nd day remaining saplings were planted.

Ganesh V; RFO, KFD officials; Nagaraja and Balakrishna, Gopal; Forest guard, Shivananje Gowda; helper were present and coordinated.

From EMC around 50 volunteers (names not recorded) with key coordinators like Divya Sen, Prince Benjamin and Lath Swamy were present.

Thanks to EMC for sponsoring the event at the right time which is beginning of monsoons..

Pictures have been uploaded in this link. You may need to login with your Gmail account to access the pictures.

https://picasaweb.google.com/114236028723925235629/Gunjur