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Seed collection
Native mangrove seeds are collected locally and prepared for propagation.
Mangrove restoration
Adopt a Mangrove
Let your legacy take root in the Sundarbans.
A living connection to the Sundarbans
The Sundarbans is a landscape continually shaped by water, erosion, salinity, storms and human life.
Mangroves form part of this living system. They grow at the meeting point of river, land and sea, and their restoration is inseparable from the communities who live alongside them.
For Breathing Roots, restoration is not simply a matter of planting trees. It is a long-term process of nurturing plants, caring for vulnerable riverbanks and working with the people whose lives are connected to the landscape.
Restoration begins before planting
A mangrove sapling begins its journey long before it reaches a riverbank.
Breathing Roots works with locally collected seeds and seasonal ecological knowledge. Young plants are nurtured in local nursery systems before being transported to sites where conditions are suitable for planting.
Planting is only the beginning. The organisation has developed a three-year post-plantation maintenance programme so that young mangroves can be monitored and cared for through their early years.
What adoption means
When you adopt a mangrove, Breathing Roots plants the sapling on your behalf and cares for it through the three-year maintenance cycle.
Your adoption supports the work involved in planting, protecting and caring for the mangrove, while also contributing to local participation and employment.
The contribution is recorded in your name, creating a personal connection with a living restoration project in the Sundarbans.
Come before you contribute
We encourage you to experience the work for yourself before deciding to contribute.
Visitors are welcome at the plantation site throughout the year. Come to Lower Hingalganj, walk along the riverbank, see the nursery and plantation work, meet the people involved and experience the landscape in which the restoration takes place.
A mangrove is not simply something to adopt from afar. It belongs to a living landscape.
The place
The restoration work is rooted in Lower Hingalganj, where the rivers and tidal landscape shape everyday life.
The Kalindi and Raimangal river systems meet the sea in this wider landscape, while vulnerable riverbanks remain exposed to erosion, flooding and changing environmental conditions.
To understand the work, it is important to encounter this landscape directly.
Ecology and culture
The work of restoring the landscape is connected to the cultural life of the Sundarbans.
Breathing Roots grew from a community of folk musicians, and cultural practice remains part of its work. The Bon Bibi & Dakshin Ray Festival brings storytelling, music and community together beside the landscape that sustains them.
Ecological restoration and cultural continuity are therefore not separate activities. They are different ways of remaining connected to the same place.
Interested in adoption?
Adoption arrangements may vary with the current restoration cycle.
Contact Breathing Roots to learn about the current programme and arrange a visit.
We would especially encourage you to experience the plantation site before deciding to contribute.
985,000+
mangrove saplings nurtured and planted since 2020
6+ km
riverbank restored across Lower Hingalganj
3 years
of planned post-plantation care and monitoring
The restoration cycle
From seed to living landscape.
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Nursery care
Young plants are nurtured locally until they are ready for the field.
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Plantation
Saplings are planted along vulnerable riverbanks and restoration sites.
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Three years of care
Plantings are monitored and cared for through the early years of growth.
Come before you contribute
Experience the work for yourself.
Visitors are welcome throughout the year. We encourage you to experience the plantation site, the riverbank and the work of restoration before deciding to contribute.