# Cauvery Calling (Isha Outreach)

> Farmer-led agroforestry campaign to plant 2.42 billion trees in the Cauvery river basin

Source: https://treerm.org/org/cauvery-calling · Updated 2026-11-07 · Data license: CC BY 4.0 (https://treerm.org/about#license)

## Facts

- Type: Nonprofit
- Scope: Regional
- Headquarters: Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
- Founded: 2019
- Website: https://consciousplanet.org/en/cauvery-calling
- Volunteer sign-up: https://consciousplanet.org/en/cauvery-calling/volunteer
- Donate: https://consciousplanet.org/en/cauvery-calling/plant-trees
- Countries where they plant: India
- Activity types: Agroforestry (primary), Nurseries & seedlings, Education & advocacy
- Trees on record: 139,000,000 (larger of latest cumulative figure and sum of annual figures; trees planted or distributed)

## About

Cauvery Calling is a campaign launched in 2019 by Isha Outreach, the social outreach arm of the Isha Foundation based near Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. It encourages farmers in the Cauvery basin of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu to shift to tree-based agriculture by supplying saplings, training, help with farmer producer organisations and advocacy for government incentives. The stated goal is to enable 5.2 million farmers to plant 2.42 billion trees over 12 years. The campaign reports 139 million trees planted and 263,306 farmers converted to tree-based agriculture.

## Metrics

| Metric | Year | Value | Cumulative | Program | Confidence | Source |
|---|---|---:|---|---|---|---|
| Trees planted | 2026 | 139,000,000 | yes (to date) | organization-wide | Self-reported | [source](https://consciousplanet.org/en/cauvery-calling) 'Progress So Far' section: 139 million living trees planted since 2019. The same page's donation counter shows 84,016,018 'trees contributed' including 32 million saplings distributed by the Government of Karnataka; the page does not reconcile the two figures |

Confidence: self-reported is the organization's own published figure; independently verified means a third party confirmed it; estimated means TreeRM derived it and the note says how.

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