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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