“IF YOU CUT A TREE, YOU KILL A LIFE. IF YOU SAVE A TREE, YOU SAVE A LIFE. IF YOU PLANT A TREE, YOU PLANT A LIFE.”
A tree provides us with fresh air and oxygen without which the existence of life on earth becomes impossible. We need to do more tree plantation campaigns as trees not only provide with oxygen but also play an essential role in the ecology. Ecological imbalance can cause flood, drought and various other natural calamities that can lead to the destruction of life.
Clean environment is a basic right of any citizen and it is the current generation’s responsibility to pass a healthy and clean environment to the next generation. DGVS works towards maintaining a healthy, natural environment by protection, preservation, management, or restoration of natural resources and the ecological communities that inhabit them, in the following ways:
- Plantation Drive- Go Green Initiative
- Heritage Conservation Drive
- Clean Festival Drive
- Development of Man Made forest
- Water bodies cleanliness drive
We work with smallholder farmers to cool the planet, clean the environment, improve public health and reduce rural poverty. We believe in nurturing the symbiotic relationship that co-exists between human and nature to create a climate just habitable environment for everyone. DGVS has planted many trees in public areas. Our team looks for areas where trees are protected and can be safeguarded for their healthy growth and maintenance is important after any type of plantation. DGVS also undertake Development of the park by plantation of flowers, cleaning, maintenance, paint and much more which is done by volunteering. Lakes are disappearing and turning into garbage land, we need to save our lakes so DGVS is working on the same. DGVS has planted around 50000 plus saplings.
DGVS has started a mission of “PLANTENANCE” which is not only planning plant but also maintaining it till it is able to develop on its own. Plantation + Maintenance =PLANTENANCE
OUR PROGRAMS
It’s Not A Day Work, It’s A Movement
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Climate & Environment Literacy
Climate and environmental literacy, coupled with strong civic education, will create jobs, build a green consumer market and allow citizens to engage with their governments in a meaningful way to address the climate crisis. DGVS believes every learner in every school in the world should receive fully integrated, assessed climate and environmental education with a strong civic engagement component. -
Act on Climate Change
DGVS believes that knowledge is power – So we learned more about the science behind our climate challenge and the responsibility that all sectors hold in addressing the issue. Adding our voice to the issues that are shaping the climate debate as well as emerging, evidence-based data that directly relates to changes in our climate. DGVS states that one person can also make a difference, but together, we can make a movement. Considering the communities that you are a part of, whether it’s your neighbourhood, your community, your company or organization. Collective action can have a major impact – and major influence – for change. Considering how we can gather support by mobilizing a larger group for action is prior motive of DGVS! -
Food & Environment
Indian Agriculture faces a trifecta of potentially devastating challenges. As a result of over-farming, development and other factors, soil capacity is dramatically declining, with some experts predicting fewer than 60 harvests remaining. Inidan States are losing soil 10 times faster than it’s replenished. Ownership of small-scale farm land-where most of the food and agricultural pollution comes from – is increasingly concentrated in the hands of small land holders and farmers who tend to value short-term profits over the long-term health of our land and people.Regenerative farming, however, offers solutions to transform farmers into environmental and societal heroes. It promotes the health of degraded soils by restoring their organic carbon. Regenerative agriculture sequesters atmospheric carbon dioxide, reversing industrial agriculture’s contributions to climate change. Regenerative practices such as no till farming and cover cropping are reducing erosion and water pollution, and in turn, producing healthier soils.
It is often used as an umbrella term for different ways in which farmers can help:
- Through climate change, humans have irrevocably upset the balance of nature — now, species are undergoing the greatest extinction rate in more than 60 million years. If we don’t act now, extinction may be humanity’s most enduring legacy. The Conservation and Biodiversity program of DGVS amplifies and accelerates transformative societal change to restore and protect biodiversity. In a future committed to protecting both wildlife and humanity, this preservation of biodiversity is one of the many solutions to the climate crisis. All living things have an intrinsic value, and each plays a unique role in the complex web of life. The rate of extinction can still be slowed. Many of our declining, threatened and endangered species can still recover if we work together now to build a united movement of community to demand immediate action.
“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.”
End Plastic Pollution
DGVS is changing human attitudes about and behaviour toward plastics and reducing plastic pollution. The End Plastic Pollution campaign helps people understand the impacts of plastic pollution on human and ecosystem health and how everyday actions can lessen the problem.
The campaign draws attention to the harmful effects of plastic in our environment — harming marine and human health, littering beaches and landscapes, clogging waste streams and landfills — and empowers people to make a difference. Unfortunately, single-use plastics are so prevalent that trying to avoid them can seem hopeless. That’s why DGVS’s campaign also focuses on systematic problems of plastic use, including the large-scale sources of plastic. DGVS also engages with and informs a network of NGOs, grassroots organizations, campus youth, community and other local elected leaders along with teachers.
DGVS’s “End Plastic Pollution” campaign elevates the issue of plastic pollution in the local agenda and demands effective action to reduce and control it.
