Meet your kikar (gum arabic tree).

SAMPLERavi riverbed · Punjab, Pakistan · sample locationplanted 26 August 20228 trees

One representative tree, standing for the 8 trees your gift planted.

A young sapling, standing in until the field photo arrives — The approved photos of your tree appear here, newest first, with the date and who took it.

Field record

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Not planted yet.

Your trees go into the next planting. Once the field team registers them, their photo, position and measured height appear here.

Carbon drawn down

of CO₂ absorbed by your 8 trees, estimated from species and age.

of the ≈ 1.4 t these trees will hold at maturity.

car miles kept off the road0
smartphone charges0
days of an average UK footprint0

1 weeks old· ≈ 2 cm

planted Aug 2022today+5 yrs

Estimated from kikar growth curves and age, one tree standing for your 8.

The people and the life around your tree

Sarim Gillani, standing in as honorary steward until real steward profiles arrive

Sample · live data soon

Your tree's steward

Planted and tended by local stewards

Community stewards on the Ravi riverbed plant, water, and guard these trees, paid local work that keeps survival high.

An Indian grey hornbill foraging among branches

Life it shelters

A canopy for riverbank wildlife

Native riverbed groves bring back the life the bare banks lost: nesting birds, pollinators, and the small mammals of the Punjab riverine belt.

The species

Kikar (gum arabic tree) · Vachellia nilotica

A thorny, drought-hardy acacia native to the Indus plains. It fixes nitrogen into poor riverbed soil, feeds pollinators with its golden blossom, and shelters ground-nesting birds.

Details

Gift: £25 · Sadaqah
Directed to: Indus basin planting
Species: Kikar (gum arabic tree) Vachellia nilotica
Trees: 8

Growth and carbon figures are estimates from species and time since planting. Field photographs and measured heights appear as the monitoring team’s visits are approved.

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