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Sadhana Forest

Auroville, Tamil Nadu, India 路 Community group 路 Global 路 since 2003

Volunteer-run reforestation and food-forest community founded in Auroville in 2003

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About

Sadhana Forest was founded in December 2003 by Aviram and Yorit Rozin on 70 acres of eroded land at the edge of Auroville, Tamil Nadu, to restore the Tropical Dry Evergreen Forest and recharge the water table. It is run largely by international residential volunteers and has since opened centres in Virudhunagar and Meghalaya in India as well as Haiti, Kenya and Namibia, where the focus is food forestry for food security. The Auroville site reports over 27,000 trees planted and about 100,000 naturally regenerated.

What they run

Sadhana Forest Auroville Reforestation2003鈥損resent

Original 70-acre campus restoring Tropical Dry Evergreen Forest and recharging the water table on eroded land outside Auroville.

Food forest centres Food forests & orchards

Centres in Virudhunagar (India), Haiti, Kenya and Namibia that plant food-bearing trees with marginalised communities for long-term food security.

Trees by type of work

ActivityTreesYears
馃尣 Reforestation27,0002026

Only figures attached to a named program count here. Organization-wide totals sit in the table below.

The numbers

MetricYearValueProgramConfidenceSource
Trees plantedto date202627,000Sadhana Forest AurovilleSelf-reportedsourceAuroville centre page: 'We have planted over 27,000 trees' and 'about 100,000 have naturally regenerated'; Auroville site only, not other centres
Volunteers engaged20261,500Sadhana Forest AurovilleSelf-reportedsourceAuroville centre page: 'Over 1,500 volunteers from 50 nationalities each year'

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