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Medicinal Tree Mapping Campaign on World Environment Day 2025

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The Medicinal Tree Mapping Campaign (Medic Tree Mapping Campaign), launching on World Environment Day 2025, is a community-driven effort to document trees with traditional medicinal value, particularly those recognised through local and indigenous knowledge. Rather than photographing every tree, this campaign emphasises quality over quantity, encouraging contributions that reflect cultural significance, biodiversity relevance, and intergenerational collaboration.

By combining the digital skills of youth with the ancestral wisdom of elders, we aim to preserve and geo-map vital botanical knowledge on platforms like Wikimedia Commons and OpenStreetMap. For example, discovering an Ackee tree from West Africa growing in India is not only rare but culturally and medicinally meaningful, and worth documenting.

This initiative supports open knowledge, visual documentation, and the power of storytelling. It aligns with WikiProject Plants, WikiProject Alternative Medicine, and relevant Wikidata entries, reminding us of the Ayurvedic wisdom that no plant is truly useless. Every tree holds a story worth sharing.

Medicinal Tree Map is live now

Team

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  1. Suyash Dwivedi (Campaign Lead)
  2. Uday Dongre (Head of Visual Content & Design)
  3. Riddhi Sharma (Facilitator)
  4. Archies2804 (Co-Host)
  5. Dev Jadiya (Technical lead)
  6. Kaushlendra Pathe (Digital Documentation Lead)

Session One (Concluded)

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This live session has concluded.

The event was conducted successfully on World Environment Day.
For those who missed it: Recording on Youtube
Kickoff Session Recording of Medicinal Tree Mapping Campaign 2025
United Nations Environment Programme

Session Two

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This session is a follow-up to the 5 June campaign and is open to all contributors. It includes:
  • Feedback on contributions from Session One
  • Guidance on categorization and geotagging
  • Orientation for new contributors
  • Mapping steps via OpenStreetMap

New participants are welcome — a brief recap will be shared.

Join the session on Google Meet


Wikimedia Commons Contributors

Participants

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About World Environment Day 2025

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#WorldEnvironmentDay is led by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Plastic pollution is now found in every part of our planet—even inside our bodies as microplastics. World Environment Day 2025 calls for collective action to end plastic pollution.

By drawing inspiration from nature and showcasing real-world solutions, the campaign urges individuals, organizations, and governments to adopt sustainable practices that drive systemic change.

This year’s event is especially significant as it precedes a global negotiation on a treaty to end plastic pollution. Join the #BeatPlasticPollution movement—because together we can create a healthier future.

About the Event

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On the occasion of World Environment Day 2025, this online session invites youth contributors and Wiki Club members to document and upload photos of medicinal trees found in their city or surroundings to Wikimedia Commons.

  • Vat/ Bargad (Ficus benghalensis) in India
    Vat/ Bargad (Ficus benghalensis) in India
  • Nakayima tree in Uganda (Embuga ya Nakayima)
    Nakayima tree in Uganda (Embuga ya Nakayima)
  • Neem (Azadirachta indica) in India
    Neem (Azadirachta indica) in India
  • Bigtooth maple??? (Acer grandidentatum Nutt.) in Uzbekistan
    Bigtooth maple??? (Acer grandidentatum Nutt.) in Uzbekistan
  • Amaltas (Cassia fistula)
    Amaltas (Cassia fistula)
  • Peregrina (Jatropha integerrima) in Indonesia
    Peregrina (Jatropha integerrima) in Indonesia


Participants will learn

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  • The importance of documenting local biodiversity
  • How to take and upload photographs of medicinal trees to Commons
  • Best practices for categorization and description
  • Aligning contributions with the global theme: #BeatPlasticPollution

Agenda

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  • 2:00 PM – Welcome and introduction to World Environment Day
  • 2:10 PM – Why medicinal trees? Ecological and knowledge value
  • 2:30 PM – Technical requirements for uploading to Wikimedia Commons
  • 3:00 PM – Live demonstration of uploading and categorization
  • 3:30 PM – Q&A and open discussion
  • 3:50 PM – Wrap-up and next steps

Who Can Participate

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This session is open to:

  • Wikimedians/Members of Wiki Clubs
  • Youth interested in contributing to open knowledge
  • Anyone passionate about the environment and Wikimedia

Use Category: Medic Tree Mapping on WED 2025

Future Plans

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Following this event, we plan to create a collaborative Medicinal Trees Map using Open Street Map (OSM) and geotagged images from Wikimedia Commons. This map will help visualize and share local knowledge about the distribution of medicinal trees in different regions.

Medicinal Tree Map is live now

Participants

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  1. Shreya (talk) - Wiki Club SATI
  2. Anushka10patel (talk) 08:26, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Imakanksha (talk) 08:27, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Shoot stufz (talk) 08:42, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Archies2804 (talk) 08:45, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  6. The open draft (talk) 08:55, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  7. Kaushlendrapathe (talk) 08:58, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  8. Dev Jadiya (talk) 15:22, 23 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  9. Umargana1 (talk)
  10. Manishontop02 (talk) 01:52, 27 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  11. The open draft (talk) 20:32, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  12. --ವಿಕಾಸ್ ಹೆಗಡೆ | Vikas Hegde (talk) 14:55, 30 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  13. --Vishwanatha Badikana (talk) 14:57, 30 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  14. Bhaiyaji Smile 123 (talk) 15:39, 30 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  15. Chhup be (talk) 10:49, 1 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  16. Herdaisymione (talk) 11:42, 1 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  17. -J. Ansari Talk 06:06, 5 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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  19. Chinmayee Mishra (talk) 09:30, 11 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  20. Adamboluu (talk) 11:54, 11 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  21. Rajasekhar1961 (talk) 13:57, 14 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  22. Anup Sadi (talk) 17:41, 15 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  23. Oby Ezeilo (talk) 20:15, 20 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  24. Rocky 734 (talk) 15:16, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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