Year-long adopt-a-tree project launched in Mangalore

Mangalore Today News Network

Mangalore, July 3, 2012: G. V. Subramanyam, assistant commissioner of police (traffic), organized adopt-a-tree, a program to enhance environmental awareness among the public, at Bal Bhavan in Kadri.
The project, which is to last one year, was jointly initiated by Big FM, Center for Integrated Learning (CIL), Lions Club Mangalore, and the Forest Department. 

The ACP launched the project by releasing a scrapbook, which was distributed among school children along with saplings. Mr. Subramanyam also presented a sapling to Sachitha Nandagopal, director of CIL, and Vishwas Kamath, radio jockey for Big FM. 

In his address, he spoke of the need for environmental awareness, adding that school children must be taught how to protect the environment for a secure future. He said that depletion of the ozone layer can be prevented if everybody plans a sapling and takes care of it.
Later, he planted a sapling.

About Adopt a Tree

Adopt a Tree involves giving each child a sapling to take care of. The children will have to record the growth of the tree in the scrap book given to them. About 100 school children have signed up for this program.
Besides individual students, four schools have also registered for the project. Each school will receive 25 saplings and scrapbooks and the school children will take care of the saplings. 

Adopt a Tree will last for one year and will include a number of activities such as mid-year reviews, workshops, certifications, field visits, and others.