
Jane Goodall has launched a new tree-planting campaign called „Trees for Jane“. The famed conservationist and primatologist has organised the new initiative in support of the United Nations’ Decade of Ecosystem Restoration and its goal to plant 1 trillion new trees by 2030.
According to Goodall the planet used to be home to six trillion trees and now only three trillion remain, half of that loss has only occured in the last 100 years.
Through „Trees for Jane“, participants can either donate to support global on-the-ground replanting projects, preservation of existing forests and their indigenous guardians, or even register trees they’ve planted locally. Goodall points out that tree-planting campaigns are not new solutions, they are nonetheless tried and true.
Goodall’s call to action comes on the heels of a landmark global report by the Botanic Gardens Conservation International that warns one in three trees are facing extinction and nearly 60,000 tree species are at risk of being lost forever. Habitat loss from agriculture and grazing and over-exploitation from logging and harvesting are some of the greatest threats.
The Gerard Donnelly, CEO of The Morton Arboretum, one of the 60 institutions who participated in the five-year study said that „As keystone species in forest ecosystems, trees support many other plants and living things that are also vanishing from the planet. Saving a tree species means saving much more than the trees themselves.”
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