15 MORE SAPLINGS PLANTED! You just can't stop our volunteers! They planted 15 uprooted tall peepal saplings in Sandesh Vihar park yesterday! Such humble efforts can lead to tremendous results! Kudos to these people!

HAPPY FRIENDSHIP DAY! Our team decided to celebrate it with our BEST FRIENDS FOREVER - literally - our native trees! TOTAL SAPLINGS PLANTED THUS FAR THIS MONSOON: 800+ We assembled at Sandesh Vihar district park early morning with a very pleasant weather! Our team watered our saplings we planted recently: https://www.facebook.com/pg/WeMeanToCleanMeetup/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1278769088922320 We couldn't resist ourselves from planting a few more saplings. We planted some semal and alstonia, taking our total plantation to cross 800 saplings this monsoon! We planted semal in the vacant tree guards in this park. Once again, we utilized home-made compost as nutrition for these saplings.

80 SAPLINGS PLANTED IN LOK VIHAR TOTAL SAPLINGS PLANTED THUS FAR THIS MONSOON: 790+ The morning was pleasant, perfect for yet another plantation day. We had a good number of volunteers present. We planted amaltas, neem, baheda, papdi and imli saplings. We also utilized home-made compost as nutrition for these saplings. A few locals also joined us and assured to take care of the saplings by watering them. Thanks to such noble souls! We also watered some of our saplings we planted in Rani Bagh recently: https://www.facebook.com/pg/WeMeanToCleanMeetup/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1301160613349834 Do view these pics - there's an amaltas we planted last year. It has grown taller than us!

108 SAPLINGS PLANTED IN RANI BAGH TOTAL SAPLINGS PLANTED THUS FAR THIS MONSOON: 700+ We have successfully crossed our last year's count of 600 saplings and targeting to plant 1,000 saplings this year! We planted native saplings such as amaltas and semal here to support our ecology! Kudos to these people... so much care for our environment!

25+ SAPLINGS PLANTED IN RANI BAGH TOTAL SAPLINGS PLANTED THUS FAR THIS MONSOON: 600+ We have successfully crossed our last year's count and targeting to hit 1,000 saplings this year! Although we had a small plantation drive in Noida this morning: http://wemeantoclean.blogspot.com/2018/07/2018-monsoon-plantation-week-05-noida.html some of our volunteers couldn't resist to plant a few more at Rani Bagh. So much enthu! We planted native saplings such as amaltas, baheda, pilkhan and marodphali to support our ecology! Kudos to these people... so much care for our environment!

30+ SAPLINGS PLANTED IN NOIDA TOTAL SAPLINGS PLANTED THUS FAR THIS MONSOON: 600+ We have successfully crossed our last year's count and targeting to hit 1,000 saplings this year! After two days of continuous downpour there were literally dark clouds over our plan of plantation in Noida. However, mother nature heard us and helped us by asking the clouds to take a break! This Saturday morning we had a bunch of volunteers coming across from Noida and Delhi for this plantation drive. This venue is G Block park opposite to Amrapali Sapphire. Enthusiastic as ever, our volunteers got into the action pretty quickly. We planted trees such as imli, jamun, marodphali, peepal and neem here. All native, all good for our ecology! We had the support from Noida authority who helped us with pits and saplings as tall as 7 feet! Though we wanted a big plantation but apparently Noida authority themselves planted about 140 odd trees here. They have a target to plant 1 lakh trees by 15th ...

30 NATIVE SAPLINGS PLANTED! Week 04.1? Yes! Because this plantation was done today! Our volunteers are so enthusiastic they couldn't wait for the weekend. They decided to plant some native saplings this morning. Saplings such as neem, sheesham, semal and kachnar were planted at Rani Bagh - same place we planted last year. Kudos to these people for showing such a zeal! TOTAL SAPLINGS PLANTED THUS FAR THIS MONSOON: 530+

🌳 100 AMALTAS SAPLINGS PLANTED!!! 🌳 We are pleased to share that with the help of around 50+ volunteers - including kids from the nearby areas, college students and working adults - we have hit yet another century today. 🌳 We planted 100 amaltas saplings within a matter of two hours, although there was some interruption due to rains. 🌳 We have focused only on amaltas in this park because this area is frequented by goats. Goats don't feed on amaltas. 🌳 We could have planted more saplings but we were out of the scope of pits here. Our volunteers will visit the park mid-week and try to seek the DDA's assistance in removing weeds. Post that we'll see if we can plant any more saplings here. 🌳 Our total saplings count this monsoon season has hit 500! Yes, if you've been following our page, we had planted total 370 till last week, today's 100 and there's another set of ~30 saplings reported by other set of volunteers that they planted.

🌳 200 NATIVE SAPLINGS PLANTED!!! 🌳 Over 50 highly enthusiastic volunteers gathered this morning at Sainik Vihar district park for our weekly monsoon plantation drive. 🌳 We began with a significant talk about the importance of native trees for our ecology. In no time kids from around the area also joined us. 🌳 The kids were especially happy to plant the saplings. These highly energetic kids, along with our volunteers, planted 200 saplings of Amaltas in a matter of only two hours. 🌳 We selectively planted Amaltas here as goats frequent this park - goats do not eat Amaltas. 🌳 A team of volunteers and kids also did cleaning of the park area where we did plantation. 🌳 We concluded with an informative session on the importance of bringing back our native trees. 🌳200 Amaltas here... Sainik Vihar is going to be AMALTAS VIHAR! 🌳🌳🌳

🌳 120+ NATIVE TREE SAPLINGS PLANTED on SUNDAY! 🌳 It was possible only because of the hard efforts of our volunteers that we were able to plant 120+ tree saplings such as Peepal, Goolar, Arjun, Marodphali, Neem, Pilkhan, Amaltas, Imli, Amla, Papdi, Jamun, Kachnar, Mehndi and Shehtoot. 🌳 Our volunteers also fixed a young fallen Peepal tree by giving it support. 🌳 This season we'll plant a wide variety of saplings to aid biodiversity. It'll not only help in reducing air pollution effectively but will also help in improving our ecology. 🌳🌳🌳

Prasad Nagar lake has struck with certain government machinery-related challenges. Here's a video we shared live on our Facebook page describing the turn of events so far and how things stand:

🌳 50+ NATIVE TREE SAPLINGS PLANTED! 🌳 Thanks to our volunteers and locals. We've planted 50+ native tree saplings such as peepal, bargad, goolar, arjun, marodphali, neem, pilkhan and jamun. 🌳 This season we'll plant a wide variety of saplings to aid biodiversity. It'll not only help in reducing air pollution effectively but will also help in improving our ecology. 🌳🌳🌳

LET'S PLANT MORE TREES! Even as Delhi protests against the felling of 16,500+ trees in south Delhi, a couple of our volunteers have kicked off our plantation as we stare at the monsoon in coming few days. As usual, we are going to plant ONLY NATIVE INDIAN TREES such as peepal, neem, amaltas, banyan etc. and not ORNAMENTAL PALMS used by GOVERNMENT AGENCIES in their FAKE COMPENSATORY AFFORESTATION! We will start scheduling proper plantation drives on this with coming weekend. We will keep you posted with further details.

80+ SAPLINGS PLANTED! Today's updates: 1. The contractor finally began the desilting of lake but a couple of unfortunate incidents happened. A DJB pipeline broke and the water leaked into the lake, raising the water level. Things became difficult for the contractor as their machine partially submerged in water. 2. We are trying to get the DJP pipeline fixed at the earliest. We've also deployed a motor to pump out water. This water is being used to irrigate the surrounding garden. We had a buy-in of the DDA's horticulture department in this. 3. We also have the support of Mrs. Veena Virmani ji, Chairperson or North DMC, who is helping us by pushing this through with the government officials. 4. Apart from this, we also planted about 80+ bougainvillea saplings around the lake. These saplings will grow into a beautiful bush and will help in biodiversity of this area. It'll help attract butterflies and birds. We used lake water to irrig...

Firstly, we are glad to share that DDA has recently formalised the contract for desilting of this lake. The contractor has begun the work. Now that the lake has dried up at an optimal level to begin work the contractor will utilize the machine to clear the lake of all the silt and rubbish. Following picture shows the state of the lake as on 10-Jun-18: Our team will also supplement their efforts by actually getting inside the lake and clearing the waste. As you may have observed in the above pictures, a lot of this waste comprises of clay utensils thrown into the lake by some people during Chath Pooja. Our team is going to clear this waste along with any plastic or glass bottles. Further, while we don't believe in forbidding anyone to practice their religious beliefs, we urge everyone to consider the environment while performing any actions. We are also planning to isolate one area of the lake that can be utilised to perform such religious activities. We...