| Deforestation Over the past 100 years there has been a
progressive reduction in the forest cover, deteriorating from the natural mixed forests
which once dominated the hills to the mono-culture of pine.
Summer is a bad time for plantations, not only the trees are under severe moisture stress
but they are also prone to destruction by fire. Every year thousand of hectares of forest
land catch fire during the dry seasons. The real damage is not so much to the larger trees
but to young saplings which die as a result of a short but intense heat. Sorag continues
to protect its plantation area of 16 hectares and sows seeds and plant saplings (specially
grown in the village nursery for this purpose) in the beginning of each monsoon during the
festival of Harela.
The Trust protects the village Panchayat forest. Khantoli village had 32 hectares of
Panchayat forest which had been walled in by the Forest Department.
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Women, children and the elderly of these
villages are even more severely affected where even the basic medical facilities are
sometimes well over a day’s march. This is the target group that the Trust aims to
help.
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Deforestation
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Education
Sanitation
Concerns
Deforestation
Drinking water
Medical facilities
Sanitation
Concerns
Deforestation
Drinking water
Medical facilities
Education
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