First of two parts
TreeSisters is a global network of women who donate monthly to help provide funds for the restoration of our tropical forests as a collective expression of planetary care. As a feminine leadership and tropical reforestation organization, they exist to call forth the brilliance and generosity of women everywhere and channel it towards the trees. Their goal is to make it as normal for everyone to give back to nature because we take nature for granted.
Treesisters.org has embarked on a Journey to a Billion Trees, a powerful solution to climate change and the radical reforestation of our planet.
They have begun their journey from a million trees a year to a billion trees a year. They don’t know how long it will take to realize this dream, but they know that it’s the only scale that makes sense in today’s climate.
They are gathering all women who feel called to this dream because together we are a powerful force of nature. If you’d like to go on a deep inner journey of self-discovery and activation while helping to reforest the tropics, this journey is for you…. Author Glennie Kindred takes us on a journey in her new book entitled: “Walking with Trees” which takes us on an intimate and profoundly connecting walk with thirteen of our native trees:
Clare Dubois wrote: “Glennie leads us into their worlds and opens our hearts to their wonders, their qualities and their potential to heal.
“This is a book about relationships and inter-relationships: Our relationship with the trees, their relationships with each other and with the natural world around them, and the flow of our communal relationship, past and present, which affects us all as the web of life on Earth.
“Illustrated with the authors’ exquisite pencil drawings, Glennie’s passion for trees is infectious, and inspires us to look more closely, listen more intently and walk with trees more often. She shares her stories and encounters with trees and weaves together many ways to deepen our engagement with them, from growing them, harvesting, and using them for medicine, food, and craftwork. She encourages us to find our way into a more subtle and intuitive relationship with the trees, as part of our journey to heal our fractured relationship with the Earth.
“As with all of Glennie’s books, the seasonal cycles and the Earth festivals are interwoven and provide further ways to deepen our journey with trees.
“This is a book about possibilities, for those who care for our environment. This is a book that reminds you of what you might have missed or forgotten, and reminds you of your power. This is a book of our time, where we recognize our deep interconnectivity with the trees, with all of life and with the Earth herself. It inspires us to open our arms and hearts wide, and joyfully embrace the changes.
“I love this book. Walking with Trees is a portal into the world of some of na ture’s most sublime sentinels. Dip in and be bathed by trees and their wisdom.”
Lauriane Cayet-Boisrobert, an Environmental and Spatial Knowledge Management Specialist, with more than eight years of experience in the fields of Natural Resources Management wrote:
“Treesisters has been funding the restoration of tropical and subtropical, mixed broad-leaved forests, including montane cloud forests in the Khasi Hills since October 2017. The project is led by WeForest, one of our valued reforestation partners.
Khasi Hills forms part of central Meghalaya, a land-locked state situated in northeastern India and bounded to the south by the Bangladesh. Meghalaya is a region of scenic hills, like Scotland, but with cultivated terraces.
The restoration sites are in the East Khasi Hills and the North Khasi Hills (Ri Bhoi) districts. 75% of the Khasi Hills is covered with luxuriant dense tropical forests of altitudes and degraded forests with more open tree canopy, which cover approximately 5,500 square kilometers approximately the size of the built urban area of Greater Sidney, Australia.
WeForest supports the Khasi tribes through the partnership with the Ka Synjuk Ki Hima Arliang Mawphlang Welfare Society. Simply named the ‘Federation’, it gathers forest dwellers spreading across 11 indigenous governments and 75 Khasi villages.
The Federation seeks to release pressures off their remaining forests with forest restoration, community engagement, forest monitoring and research data collection. The project holds the possibility to regenerate over four million trees spanning across 5,000 Hectares, about the size of Washington D.C.’s Dulles Airport, USA. It represents one percent of the Khasi Hills landmass and provides a vital protection for knowledge, wildlife and water sources. This project is highly important to TreeSisters and WeForest, because of the Khasi’s deep cultural and traditional attachment and respect for forests.”
Continued next week