'Youth brigades' take lead on crucial 5,000-acre forest project: 'Strengthening local ownership'

'Youth brigades' take lead on crucial 5,000-acre forest project: 'Strengthening local ownership'

Young people in India are providing new life to the country's embattled forests.  There are 176 "youth brigades" across Assam's Bodoland Territorial Region that are nurturing "saplings of native timber species, fruit-bearing trees, and medicinal and flowering plants" on nearly 5,000 acres, according to The Hindu.  The onus is on the more than 1,158 square miles of regional forest cover that was lost from 2013 to 2023. The youth participants, inc…