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Plant 4,500 native trees around the Harmony wetland in Ankara

Help us clean and replant the Harmony wetland before the October planting window closes.

🇹🇷 Türkiye1,059 views
Efe Efe Ünal
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Ankara
The Harmony wetland has been used as an informal dump for years. This August, 91 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 56 bags in a single morning. Now we want to restore it for good. We have a plan agreed with the local forestry office, including native species selected by a local botanist. The area floods more each year, and fish have returned for the first time in a decade after our first cleanup. Restoring it will protect homes and bring back shade. All the labor is volunteered. We just need materials. We'll post planting day photos and a count of every sapling planted. Where the $600 goes: • Native saplings and stakes: $360 • Tools and protective gear: $95 • Waste removal and skip hire: $90 • Signage and educational materials: $55 Ask me anything below before you decide. I'd rather you were sure.
#environment#tree-planting#cleanup

Updates from Efe

  1. Wanted to say thank you properly. 17% funded and I met with the nursery and confirmed the amounts.

  2. Update from Ankara: we've started the first stage. We're at 8% of the goal. Thank you for believing in us.

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    “Thought of Efe all day after reading this. - Durgapur”

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  • Grace Hellen Lubega

    you're not alone, Efe. This could happen to any of us. The breakdown of costs made it easy to trust.

    • Lei Bo Gao

      It takes guts to ask. Well done. Put this on a community board in Uberlândia this morning. Take care

      • Miguel T. García

        Thanks for sharing this, Efe. More neighborhoods should do this. Read this on the bus and kept thinking about it all day. Greetings from Nairobi.

        $155 raised of $600

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