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The Foundation for Ecological Security (FES) works towards the ecological restoration and conservation of land and water resources, in eco-fragile, degraded and marginalized zones. FES promotes protection and restoration of biological diversity. It ensures the ecological integrity of all efforts by working with entire landscapes and all interrelated communities within it. Thereby, FES ensures that it’s initiatives are not only ecologically sustainable, but also socially and economically equitable. It has built enduring partnerships with local communities across India’s diverse land categories to ensure each project’s long-term sustainability.

FES works in 22 districts across six states of India. FES’s transformational work led us to partner with it to achieve our mission to make tree planting a way of life and thereby make a significant impact on the environment. We believe in FES’s principles and holistic approach toward ecological restoration.

FES is a non-profit organization, formed by a collaboration between the National Wastelands Development Board (NWDB) and the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB). The Chariperson of its Board is the eminent Ms. Amrita Patel.

FES is registered under the Societies Registration Act XXI, 1860, New Delhi.

Krishi Avam Paristhitiki Vikas Sansthan (KRAPAVIS), literally means "organization for the development of ecology and agriculture/livestock", works with a clear mission: the betterment of ecological, agricultural and livestock practices with a view to ensuring sustainable livelihoods for rural pastoral communities in Rajasthan.

For the last 17 years, KRAPAVIS has been working to revive Rajasthan's orans (sacred village forests), both physically and conceptually. [Orans are local micro bio-diversity reserves harboring the shrine of a local goddess or deity, most of which contain sources of water, either small springs or rivulets or a variety of ponds and rivers.] It has so far succeeded in conserving biodiversity and protecting rural livelihoods in over 100 villages. This has been achieved through bio-diversity reconstruction, stakeholder/community engagement and institution building. KRAPAVIS has empowered local communities in order to expand their administrative and managerial abilities. The organisation has a long experience of protecting trees, conserving water, raising saplings in nurseries and planting these in orans and other community conserved areas. As well as oran restoration, KRAPAVIS is working on agriculture and pastoralist issues, which directly impact conservation.

KRAPAVIS has received numerous awards and sponsorships, as well as press attention. KRAPAVIS has initiated partnerships with different national and international agencies, academic institutions and universities, and has established linkages with several Rajasthan State Government departments.

Established in 1939, Tata Chemicals Limited (TCL) is currently the second largest producer of soda ash in the world with manufacturing facilities in India, UK, Kenya and USA. It is India’s leading Crop Nutrients player and market leader in the branded, iodised salt segment.

To develop more sustainable products, it has set up the TCL Innovation Centre in Pune, India, to promote world-class R&D in the areas of nanotechnology and biotechnology. TCL has also invested in a Centre for Agriculture & Technology (CAT) at Aligarh to provide advice on farming practices in general and crop nutrition practices and solutions in particular. The company has also joined hands with Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory Ltd (TLL), Singapore for development of jatropha seedlings and  agronomic  practices.

The company has also developed its Mithapur salt works as a natural habitat for thousands of migratory birds.

Tata Chemicals’ Society for Rural Development (TCSRD) nurtures rural populations in and around its facilities, and helps people achieve self-sufficiency in natural resource management, livelihood support through self-help groups and the building of health and education infrastructure. TCL and Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) are working on a conservation project that will create awareness and undertake research to save the endangered species of the Whale Shark that visits the coastal shores of Gujarat.

The impact of the tsunami on the coastal areas of South and South-east Asian countries in December 2004, resulted in an initiative called "Mangroves for Future (MFF)" being formed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the UN, with a goal to conserve and restore the coastal ecosystems as key assets which support human well-being and security in the Indian Ocean Region. This initiative focuses on the restoration of coastal ecosystems in six countries viz. India, Indonesia, Seychelles, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Maldives. The program is being implemented through a network of partners including government agencies, NGOs, research institutes, UN agencies and corporate organizations. As a member of this network, TCL has taken up the work of restoring, in a phased manner,  the mangroves, and eventually, the ecological balance in the Dwarka region of Gujarat. Plantation of 52,400 mangrove saplings on 30 acres of inter-tidal mud flats has already been completed.

Grow-Trees partners with TCL on the second phase of this project which aims to plant 50,000 mangrove saplings over 50 acres at the famous Rukshmani temple creek site at Dwarka.