{"id":11138,"date":"2013-06-04T13:00:47","date_gmt":"2013-06-04T07:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=11138"},"modified":"2013-06-04T13:00:47","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T07:30:47","slug":"haritha-keralam-on-june-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/haritha-keralam-on-june-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerala Forest department to launch &#8216;Haritha Keralam&#8217; on June 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To mark the World Environmental Day, Social Forestry Wing of the Kerala Forest and Wildlife Department is launching the \u2018<strong>Haritha Keralam<\/strong>\u2019 programme aimed at greening the state on June 5. The state-level launch of the programme will be conducted at the <a href=\"http:\/\/edu.entecity.com\/college\/sarvodaya-vidyalaya-thiruvananthapuram\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sarvodaya Vidyalaya School at Nalanchira<\/a> here by <strong>Chief Minister Oommen Chandy on June 5 at 1 pm.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Trivandrum to get first \u2018Hop-On\/Hop-Off\u2019 bus service in the state\" href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/trivandrum-to-get-first-hop-onhop-off-bus-service-in-the-state\/\" target=\"_blank\">Trivandrum to get first \u2018Hop-On\/Hop-Off\u2019 bus service in the state<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Four areas have been identified for action &#8211; \u2018Enhancing and conserving biological diversity\u2019, \u2018Increasing green cover\u2019, \u2018Improving ecosystems and the ecosystem services that they render\u2019, and \u2018Successful citizen engagement.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Social Forestry Wing of the\u00a0 Forest department has focused on developing strategic alliances with several\u00a0 educational institutions across the state to strength the process of greening the state and for successful citizen engagement,\u2019\u2019 said B S Corrie, Additional Principal Chief Conservator of Forests.<\/p>\n<p>The core activity of the Haritha Keralam programme is the tree-planting by students known as the \u2018<strong>Ente Maram<\/strong>\u2019 programme. Other tree-planting activities include the tree-planting by college students, tree-planting by institutions, block planting and avenue planting.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While Haritha Keralam is all about increasing the green cover of the State, in this age of climate change, more than the increase in greenery it is the enhancement of biodiversity and improvement of ecosystems and the ecosystems services that these ecosystems render that is significant&#8221; said Corrie.<\/p>\n<p>This year, to cater the diverse needs of the citizens, the Social Forestry Wing has raised a wide variety of species such as medicinal trees, flowering trees, timber species multipurpose trees and economically valuable trees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To mark the World Environmental Day, Social Forestry Wing of the Kerala Forest and Wildlife Department is launching the \u2018Haritha Keralam\u2019 programme aimed at greening the state on June 5. The state-level launch of the programme will be conducted at the Sarvodaya Vidyalaya School at Nalanchira here by Chief Minister Oommen Chandy on June 5 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":11140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[452],"class_list":["post-11138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-trivandrum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}