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 maintained as an archive for related articles, activities and resources. URGENT ACTIONS for old growth protection on Vancouver Island:
PPT4F encourages the protection of old growth on Vancouver Island right now by supporting forest defenders @ Fairy Creek and elsewhere on southern Vancouver Island. Join Denman Island Support for Fairy Creek through this page, help us raise funds for legal defense and more, and help get supplies and forest defenders to the frontlines: https://www.facebook.com/groups/924616354781211
Visit the official page for the Rainforest Flying Squad defending old growth forests on unceded Pacheedaht territory: https://laststandforforests.com/
Visit the Fundrazr page here: https://fundrazr.com/last_stand_for_forests?ref=ab_9zzXAfgh6WV9zzXAfgh6WV
In the Comox Valley, sign wave demos are continuing via SOFT-CV (Save Our Forests Team - Comox Valley) To get on the SOFT-CV mailing list to hear about these events write: [email protected]
OTHER ACTIONS:
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/
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