Letters

Dear Auroville Today team,I have to say that while sitting here this morning over breakfast reading Auroville Today I felt appalled by reading the front page article “Growing timber and firewood for Auroville”. The amount of inaccuracies it contains was a real surprise, but the fact that an article goes out into the world of Auroville well-wishers, donors and potential donors without even checking it out with the Forest Group was unacceptable.The first paragraph is misleading and does not contain the essence of that initial work, as it does not mention that actually the first pioneering work that was carried out on the plateau was not introducing the Work Tree, but extensive ecological restoration. This meant taking land that was highly degraded with little or no top soil, protecting and planting a myriad of species to create that precious shade and start breaking the cycle of degradation. The fact that the Work Tree was one of the few species that thrived is just a poin...
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