In 2015, in the 60th anniversary of Scientia Silvae Sinicae, the Editorial Department teamed up with China Green Foundation to innovatively launch a green public welfare activity, which means that for every paper accepted by the journal, the Editorial Department will donate 5 yuan to China Green Foundation with the aim to support the “Happy Homeland-Western Greening Initiative”. From 2015 to 2019, a total of 5 donations have been made to the Foundation, totaling 25,360 CNY, which has been used to support the poor families in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region to plant 2,536 wolfberry trees.
The Initiative is an eco-based poverty alleviation charity project which is launched by China Green Foundation to address the issues of land desertification, sandification, and the according poverty in the western region. By planting ecological crop forests, it helps the poor families in the project area, especially women in the rural area, to receive remunerations from labor and increase their family economic incomes, improve the local poor ecological environment and achieve sustainable family development.