Plant Locally and Nurture Trees (PLANT)

The major objective of the project is to create awareness among the public, the importance of preserving indigenous trees and biodiversity at large.  The Society has two nursery sites at Debrebirhan Teachers' Training Institute and Shoa Robit in which assorted indigenous tree seedlings are produced and distributed to the communities and peasant associations to be planted by the same for establishment of family woodlots. The tree seedlings include Cordia Africana, Acacia nilotica, Olea Africana, Prunus africanus, Hagenia abyssinica, Juniperus procera, Milletia ferruginea and Podocarpus falcatus.

Impacts

• TTI teacher trainees have acquired the techniques of nursery establishment through the EWNHS nursery sites.  The trainees are now the focal target for the Society in disseminating the nursery techniques to the farmers.
• The farmers are aware of the importance of planting of indigenous trees.
• The farmers established their own nursery sites about 10 km west of Debre Birhan , Angolela,  near the birth place of Menilk II.  The community nursery has a significant role among the farmers.
• The farmers who were pondering in planting indigenous or exotics have now decided in planting indigenous seedlings.