Eco India: In space-strapped Mumbai, citizens are using a Japanese technique to create green cover

Every week, Eco India brings you stories that inspire to build a cleaner, greener and better tomorrow. Our top story this week looks at the Miyawaki technique, a Japanese afforestation method named after its developer botanist Akira Miyawaki, and how creating dense man-made plantations using this technique can improve the local ecosystems and bring back the lost native species. ********** CREDITS: Supervising Producer: Nooshin Mowla Script & Associate Producer: Shibika Suresh Director of Photography: Mohammad Ismail Shaikh Video Editor: Sujit Lad Field Producers: Arun Nair, Ranish Pandit Assistant Producer: Gautam Phadnis Executive Producer: Sannuta Raghu ********** Eco India is a co-production between DW and Scroll.in. You can watch the full episodes on scroll.in/ecoindia Subscribe to get the latest episodes of Eco India - https://bit.ly/2M9WTXn For more explainers, and the web’s most interesting videos - https://scroll.in/video/ For the latest news and analysis - https://scroll.in  Follow Scroll.in here -  Facebook: https://facebook.com/scroll.in/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/scroll_in Instagram: https://instagram.com/scroll_in/

source https://earthonsight.org/society/inspire/eco-india-in-space-strapped-mumbai-citizens-are-using-a-japanese-technique-to-create-green-cover/