Plant a tree with your gift

Forests in many parts of the globe have always acted as carbon sinks – converting our carbon dioxide back into oxygen and maintaining climatic balance on earth. But over the last century, mass deforestation has increasingly reduced the offsetting impact that trees can provide and has devastated the lives of some of the world’s neediest people in the process.

Trees offer a habitat for animals, help purify water, control flooding and erosion, and replenish the soil with nutrients. Without them, farmers in some of the most impoverished regions worldwide have been forced to abandon their livelihoods and move to already overcrowded cities in search of work.

Eden Reforestation Projects is addressing this problem by hiring local villagers to plant trees. Its work focuses on forest restoration in Nepal, Madagascar, Haiti, Indonesia and Mozambique. This not only helps to counter climate change but also provides a fair income to locals, enabling them to provide for their families again.

As a healthier natural environment re-emerges in these areas, local farmers enjoy better yields, local economies stabilize, and a positive climatic effect can ultimately be achieved. Since starting out, Eden Reforestation Projects has planted over 250 million trees worldwide.