November Tree Festival 2025

The rains have just receded,
The trees are reeling from the moisture.
The air has started getting colder,
What shall this new season bring, wonder?

– A new season here, and so is the last tree festival of the year.

Join in the celebration by organizing and attending tree walks around you, join our workshop, nature journaling session and SeasonWatch the trees around you. Complete the festival challenges to win exciting prizes!

When: 22 November – 1 December 2024

Where: Anywhere in India!

Festival Challenges

1. 100-not-out: Observe 100 individuals of any of the 172 SeasonWatch tree species in the 10 days of the festival.
2. Never-before-November: Observe as many individuals of these common tree species as possible –

*Trees of Never-before-November challenge:

1. Devil’s Tree (Alstonia scholaris)
2. Neem (Azadirachta indica)
3. Mast Tree (Monoon longifolium)
4. Drumstick (Moringa oleifera)
5. Indian Almond (Terminalia catappa)

How to participate

1. If you’re new to SeasonWatch, register on the website or Android app.
2. Go outdoors and choose any SeasonWatch species to observe.
3. To make a one-time-only observation on a tree, click on the ‘casual’ tab and then the ‘eye’ icon. To observe the same tree more than once, click on the ‘regular’ tab and then the ‘+’ button to register it with SeasonWatch, or on the ‘eye’ icon to add observations on a registered tree. You can make both types of observations for the November Tree Festival! Need more help? Watch our video tutorials to get set and go!
4. Observe as follows – imagine the tree canopy as a circle and divide it into 3 equal parts from the centre. If the stage you are observing is found in ⅓ parts, choose ‘few’. If the stage is seen in more than one part, choose ‘many’, and if it is absent, choose ‘none’.
   
5. To share your observations with everyone, make sure to make your profile set to ‘public’ on the website (Login > Account > My profile > Make profile public), and keep track of daily observations at Explore > Patterns > Observations.
6. Participate in other ways by going on tree walks with tree lovers, and sharing the event posters with tree enthusiasts.Help us spread the word!

Tree Festival Events

1. New Delhi
   Tree walks by Aparajita
   Saturday, 22 Nov (Sanjay Van) and Sunday, 30 Nov (Nehru Park) | 9:30 am – 11 am
   Registration: https://forms.gle/Jc5Gf7ENyJaosaUe7

2. Mumbai
   

   

   
   Tree walk by Gaurav Soman, in collaboration with ‘Save Hanging Garden‘
   Saturday, 22 Nov | 8:30 am onwards | Malabar Hill
   Registration: https://forms.gle/uct88FNfsVWiFv1v5

3. Bengaluru
   

   
   Tree walk by Aravind AM
   Sunday, 23 Nov | 7:15 am – 8:30 am | Doddabommasandra Lake
   Registration: https://bit.ly/BngTreesNov2025

4. Hyderabad
   
   Tree walk by Arun Vasireddy and Eco Adventure Society
   Sunday, 23 Nov | 8 am – 10 am | Khajaguda
   Registration: Contact 9949492018

5. Online (Zoom)
   
   Workshop: Basics of Tree Identification and Phenology, by Sayee Girdhari
   Sunday, 23 Nov | 2 pm – 5 pm
   Registration: https://forms.gle/cvnDexvAu8S9MWkZ8

6. Kolkata
   
   Tree walk by Debjit Mukherjee and Tirthankar Roy Chowdhari
   Sunday, 23 Nov | 8 am onwards
   Registration: https://chat.whatsapp.com/J9sbAvnrdDU0JGQhZWFND2

Happy SeasonWatching!