Forests are among the planet's most biologically diverse ecosystems. Loss of these habitats does not only eliminate trees, but destroys homes. Cattle ranching, unsustainable agriculture, logging, and devastating wildfires have destroyed forests worldwide.

2020 was marked by record levels of deforestation.

Tree coverage exceeding the combined size of New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island were lost - in just one year.

We plant trees with Trees for the Future, an organization dedicated to solving deforestation by addressing one of it’s main underlying causes: poverty.

Millions of smallholder farming families living in extreme poverty around the world use destructive agricultural methods that degrade their ecosystem, soil, water, and trees. Trees for the Future has worked over the past 30 years developing, training, and implementing their Forest Garden approach to restore these ecosystems and provide farmers with a sustainable source of food, wood, and income. Families with Forest Gardens have seen a 400% increase in income in 4 years.

Forest Gardens consist of thousands of trees including fast-growing trees, fruit trees, hardwoods, and food crops - over 2,500 trees per acre.

Reforestation involves the intentional planting of trees in woodlands that have been destroyed oft by human interference. Maintaining biodiversity is critical in restoring forests. Different seedlings from the natural habitat are used to regenerate the original forest.

Not only does it help rebuild forests to their once healthy ecosystem, it also plays an important role in mitigating global warming, since forests facilitate biosequestration of atmospheric CO2.