FIH contributes 300 trees to Hockey Forest project.

ISLAMABAD -- The International Hockey Federation (FIH) has decided to make a donation equivalent to the plantation of 300 trees for the Hockey Forest project.

The project consists of building a hockey forest in South Africa as a measure to offset the carbon footprint that is created by the demands of the sport's growing schedule, said an FIH news release on Wednesday.

It was started in 2019 by the German women's hockey team, the Danas, who partnered with the Grootbos Foundation in South Africa, set up a crowdfunding page and planted the first trees themselves in 2020 during a training camp in Stellenbosch, South Africa.

Since then, they've kept collecting funds for different events such as a Christmas tree campaign and an offset for their travels during the last FIH Hockey Women's World Cup. In total, the organisation has planted more than 1,000 trees.

When FIH launched its 'Sustainability Strategy for Hockey' on November 4, 2022, it...