Children in Leicester, UK, plant a tiny forest in their school

In 2014 eco-entrepreneur Shubhendu Sharma gave a TED Talk about the value of the mini-woodland ecosystems he was planting across India. He described how they grow 10 times faster, are 30 times denser, and 100 times more biodiverse than a conventional forest.

His tiny forests were inspired by Japanese ecologist Akira Miyawaki's technique of creating small, condensed urban forest on degraded soils. 

He had created them near houses, schools and even factories. Some covered the space of only six parked cars and were so dense you couldn't walk into them. "If you see a barren piece of land, remember that it can be a potential forest," urged Sharma.

His company Afforestt has planted 138 forests in 10 countries around the world.

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