Plant A Billion Trees campaign
Illegal logging, urban expansion and agriculture have all played a role in the destruction of Brazil's Atlantic forest. Now standing at 7% its original size, it is one for the most depleted forests in the world.
Home to an array of biodiversity, the forest provides energy and water to 120 million Brazilians.
The Nature Conservancy is working with local partners to restore the land and plant one billion trees before 2015. It's a campaign that will not only provide thousands of jobs for locals; it will also create a more effective carbon sink which will remove 10m tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere each year – the equivalent of taking two million cars off the road.
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At last - something that in practical terms goes towards reducing atmospheric CO2 rather than the totally useless homespun knee-jerk banning of incandescent lamps, turning heating thermostats down, electric cars... Real solutions instead of fantasy ones!