Crore seedlings are to be planted in 10 years
Sq.Km increase in forest and tree cover in 10 years
Million tons projected additional carbon sink in forest and tree cover
Crore Seedlings to be planted in 2023-24
The scheme "Rehabilitation of Coastal habitats through the formation of Bio- shields with Casuarina, Palmyrah, Cashew, Mangrove, restoration of sea grass and coral reefs" is being implemented under Green Tamil Nadu Mission from the year 2023-24 to 2025-26 in all coastal Districts of the State.
The scheme is funded by the Department of Environment and Climate Change with objective of forming the Bio-shield along coastal districts for prevention and mitigation of natural calamities such as cyclones, tsunami, coastal erosion, etc.
Trees and plants helps to regulate climate and reduce global warming
Increase forest cover from 23% to 33 %
Conserve soil and moisture for future
Trees provide numerous socio-economic benefits to the rural community
Trees are the best carbon capture technology in the world
More tree diversity.
Save trees
SDG-15.Trees and tree planting can help us as to live sustainably
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Forest land restoration and creation of additional carbon sink in the natural forest area.
Soil and Moisture Conservation works of various types for sediment retention and erosion control.
Forest Fire Protection and Disaster Management for reducing emissions from the Deforestation and Land degradation.
Formation and Maintenance of Central Nurseries in all Districts and tissue culture labs in 3 Research Centers of Forest Department.
Technology Integration for quality planting stock and for developing GIS based verifiable Reporting and Monitoring mechanism.
Capacity Building of the Officials and staff on advance nursery technology and GIS based monitoring mechanism.
Crore seedlings are to be planted in 10 years
Sq.Km increase in forest and tree cover in 10 years
Million tons projected additional carbon sink in forest and tree cover
Crore Seedlings to be planted in 2023-24
Our aim to achive 33% of forestcoverby 2031
aiming to plant in 1.35m hectares in TN by 2031
Any organisation or individual can volunteer
Latest technologies and tools
For the smooth running of the mission, it is mandatory to monitor the nursery activities and evaluate them based on
the feedback from the nursery in-charges. It will reduce the risk of seedling damages and help the department to
make proactive decisions.
We have provided a mobile app to collect all the activities on a daily basis and that will help the division
officers to track the plant status remotely.
The daily report images from one particular nursery can be selected and can review the nursery activities
and plant growth so that the department can support the nurseries if they need any additional support or service.
Our department officials: Conservator of Forest, District Forest Officer, Assistant Conservator of Forest
and Forest Range Officer regularly inspect the forest nurseries across Tamil Nadu and report on our web plantation monitoring platform.
Regular inspection activities are carried out to address the seedling quality issues and to offer proactive
actions to complete the mission without fail.
While the inspection activities, the officers check the following cases