A Closer Look

Empowering Rural Women

Home Gardens - Providing rural women with seedlings to create their own home gardens, which will sustain them with income, food, firewood and fodder.Community Nurseries - Setting these up for rural women groups and in turn making them a source of seedlings for the project.Community Orchards - Partnering with rural women groupsto set up orchards which will prove to be income earners for them through the sale of fruit.


Forest Conservation & De-forestation

Employing rural people, mainly women, to plant trees in degraded natural forests, and rain forestsLobbying policy makers to strengthen the law against illicit logging and enforce the lawLobbying the Government to seek payment from overseas funding agencies for maintaining forestsInvolving volunteer groups to plant trees in forests.Encouraging people to have forest gardens by supplying them with seedlings and fertilizer


Coast Conservation

• Building a wind cover with trees along the coast.

• Employing rural women and also through volunteers.

• Maintaining the trees through volunteer groups.

• Preventing the logging of coastal trees and clearing of vegetation through coastal protection
groups.

• Carrying out awareness on coast conservation.


Awareness & Education on Global Warming

•Carrying out awareness campaigns through the media and group discussions.

•Spreading knowledge through seminars.

•Distributing educational kits to school childrenInvolving school children in planting trees.

•Organizing art competitions on global warming in schools


Positioning Sri Lanka as a Tourism Earth Lung

•Guilt free travel for tourists through carbon offsetting

•Enabling tourists to purchase and plant trees, visit in village households and understand the
local culture.

•The seedlings will be made available at resort hotels.

•Tourists will be encouraged to plant trees while nature trails and camping sites will also be set
up for them to enjoy the bio diversity.

•Tourists who cannot plant trees will be able to buy tree vouchers, available in city & resort
hotels and with tour operators.