EPAC
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IC Environment Protection and Anti-Corruption Foundation
World Environment Day is observed on 5 June. For the IC EPAC Foundation it is not a day for speeches — it is the busiest working day of our year.
Volunteers, schoolchildren, sportspersons and forest department staff came together across our drive locations to plant saplings and, just as importantly, to commit to caring for them afterwards. A sapling planted for a photograph and then abandoned is not conservation.
Our President has made the arithmetic plain for years. Himachal Pradesh has a population of over seventy lakh. If every person with twenty feet of ground plants a single tree, seventy lakh trees follow. The temperature falls, the rain returns, and the natural springs begin to flow again.
Thousands are spent on cakes, clothes and bikes. A sapling costs almost nothing and pays the next generation back for decades. Plant one — in a temple courtyard, in a public space, anywhere it will be allowed to grow — and then help it become a tree.
A press conference addressing the environmental damage caused by human selfishness — and a call to give back to nature rather than only taking from it.
The foundation's press conference was carried by Khabrain Abhi Tak Himachal Pradesh, taking the President's appeal to a statewide audience.
At a press conference in Himachal Pradesh, the foundation called on citizens and the administration to act together before another summer burns through the hills.
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