The Soneva Project In 2011 and 2012 Plant a Tree Today and Soneva planted 449 000 trees! You can read some edited highlights of the project below, or, click here to be taken to the project page on our archive site The objectives of the Soneva project were: reforestation community development increase habitat for wildlife…
Our first ever tree planting day! It all started on the 26th May 2006 with our first tree planting event. Our ‘Baan Unrak Forest and Nursery Project’ supported tree planting in rural Thailand. With the support of XL Results Foundation Magazine, we supplied 500 seedlings to Baan Unrak School and Children’s Home in Sangklaburi, Kanchanaburi…
How trees talk to each other… “A forest is much more than what you see,” says ecologist Suzanne Simard. Her 30 years of research in Canadian forests led to an astounding discovery — trees talk, often and over vast distances. To find out more, let us introduce Suzanne Simard
New UN report highlights changes we need to make A new report by the UN recommends that we must urgently change our diets and stop destroying land so it can absorb more carbon if there is any hope of avoiding catastrophic levels of global warming. A UN advisor commented, ‘Earth has never felt smaller, its natural ecosystems…
Trees can save the world Professor Tom Crowther, whose work specialises in ecosystem ecology, has calculated the number of trees on the planet, three trillion, or 3 000 000 000 040 to be precise. Tom also calculates that we need to plant 3 000 000 000 trees by 2050, or 90 million trees a year…
Trees and climate change Scientists at the Smithsonian are using the leaves of one of our favourite trees, Ginkgo biloba to study climate change. The study involves comparing the fossilised leaves with those collected from living Ginkgo biloba trees. As Ginkgo trees have been growing for some 260 million years they have adapted to climate…