"A committment to a greener environment"Today’s elderly, born at the beginning of this century, started life in the world with about 50% of its ancient forests still standing. Our grandchildren will inherit a planet with less than 20% of its original forest intact, with most of the readily available freshwater already spoken for, with most of the wetlands and reef systems destroyed or degraded, and much of the arable land under plough. They will inherit a stressed atmosphere and an unwanted legacy of toxic waste in the soil and water. Missing from the list will be countless species, most wiped out before even being catalogued by scientist. The accelerating destruction of the world's forests threatens the planet's ecological and economic health. Flooding and drought become more extreme. Trees are ‘carbon sinks,’ absorbing carbon dioxide, one of the greenhouse gases behind global warming. To awaken and educate the masses on the grave importance of planting trees and stop cutting the existing ones, Dream Trees has pledged to plant 2,000,000 indigenous trees to the "Billion Tree Campaign" being run by The United Nation Environmental Programme (UNEP). You can be a part of this GREEN DREAM. To date, we have planted 10,000 trees in Bamba, in the coastal region of Kenya and are currently organising to plant another 130,000 trees in Laikipia, on the foothills of Mount Kenya, Africa's 2nd highest snow-capped mountain. |
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The launch of Dream Trees was held on the 18th of April 2008 at the Village Market in Nairobi, and was graced by renowned Bangra singer Jassi Sidhu who planted a Mugumo tree to officially join the Billion Tree Campaign. |
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 Under the Plant for the Planet: Billion Tree Campaign, people, communities, business and industry, civil society organizations and governments are encouraged to enter tree planting pledges online with the objective of planting at least one billion trees worldwide each year. |
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