India, Aug. 21 -- A 17-year-old student from Pune, Aryaman Deshmukh, has merged coding with his interest in riverside conservation to create 'The Tree Map', an app that enables citizens to digitally record trees. The Vidya Valley School student has built a platform that converts manual tree documentation into a collective effort.

Inspired by years of volunteering with Jeevitnadi, a non-profit organisation working to revive Pune's rivers, Aryaman's app aims to digitalise the manual process of documenting flora biodiversity. The Tree Map allows its use of citizen data to create a location-linked database of trees, empowering everyone - from students to city planners - with actionable information.

Users can log species, girth, height, phot...