Tree Planting and Forest Regeneration in Manipur, north-west India

摘要

The article is based on contributions fromL. ADAM and NENI NETHI of MID A, Manipur, India and GERAL.DINE HOBSON, Dorset, and describes one of the many overseas projects supported by UK branches of ITF. In July 1996 the Chair of the Dorset branch of IIF received a letter from one Dr Ashito working among the Mao Naga villages in north-east India He described the work of MIDA (Mao Integrated Development Organisation), a grassroots organisation working to educate villagers on forest conservation and protection of the environment Five hundred hectares of wasteland in the area had been identified by MIDA, and a tree planting project to repair environmental damage was in need of outside help The Dorset Branch of ITF stepped in and has been supporting MIDA's re-afforestation project since 1998.