Planting & Protecting Trees for the Future
The need to both protect standing forests and plant billions of additional trees to help mitigate climate collapse is urgent. Planting & Protecting Trees for the Future (PPTF) aims to encourage islanders to initiate and or support such actions locally, regionally and internationally. We have established a FB page intended to serve as a resource linking to immediate action opportunities (see below). This particular social media platform is also developing as an archive for related articles, activities and resources. A blog will follow. Additional members encouraged! Info:335-1209
We invite islanders to:
- Support Denman Island Conservancy land acquisition projects to protect local forests, and establish private land covenants : http://www.denman-conservancy.org
- Gift to others and/or plant fruit and nut bearing trees on your own land. Support these Denman Island growers: www.treeeaternursery.com, www.figsforlife.ca, www.denmanapple.ca
- Join BC conservation NGOs and follow their prompts connecting you to specific actions lobbying govt. for vital forest protection measures: www.endangeredecosystemalliance.org, www.sierraclub.bc.ca , https://www.wildernesscommittee.org, https://www.ancientforestalliance.org
- Write, call and lobby our provincial govt. on your own and ask for follow-up re: the need for improvement of existing forestry practices including a reduction in wood waste and slash burning, better biodiversity and old growth protection, and an end to the violation of indigenous rights, etc.
- Support these reforestation or afforestation initiatives engaged in BC: https://onetreeplanted.org/…/produ…/british-columbia-forests, https://treecanada.ca/
- Support a recommended, existing tree planting project anywhere in the world right now if you able. In fact, it can be more cost effective and certainly more time effective to gift to afforestation and/or reforestation efforts in other countries where the trees grow faster! There are many wonderful initiatives underway – here are just a handful: www.treesisters.org, www.edenprojects.org, www.treeswaterpeople.org, www.onetreeplanted.org, www.tree-nation.com, www.treedom.net, www.trees.org, www.internationaltreefoundation.org, www.weforest.org, www.greenpop.org, www.treesforlife.org, www.onamission.world
- Food bearing trees and forest gardening also provide sustainable human sustenance, helping to protect biodiversity and sequester carbon. Support food security and ecological restoration projects employing agroecology and/or growing Food Forests anywhere in the world!: www.sadhanaforest.org/ , www.ftpf.org/ (the Fruit TreePlanting Foundation) , http://growahead.org/plant-trees/