Darjeeling Revival Project
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Resuscitating Heritage
Darjeeling’s tea industry is under siege. The escalating impacts of climate change are most felt in the 180+ year old tea gardens of Darjeeling. Shorter harvests, droughts, forest fires, and soil degradation have reduced the output of tea, and the region’s biodiversity hangs in a fine balance.
Phase 1
We began Phase 1 of our project covering 2,000 hectares of tea estates in Darjeeling. This involved acquiring agricultural land, spreading basalt rock dust, testing soil samples, measuring CO2 removal and setting a lab to rigorously scale these processes.
We are en route to scaling this up to 500,000 hectares by 2030.
