The following updates and pictures come directly from our tree-planting partner, Ecosia.

We will be publishing these updates regularly, as provided by our partner, Ecosia. Thank you to Treecard members for funding these trees! 🌳

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This month, your trees are planted in 3 projects and 3 countries. Here is a brief update of them.

• In India, together with our partner Botanic Gardens Conservation International, we’re aiming to conserve an endemic and endangered tree called Drypetes porteri, found only in the remote, rocky, Tropical Dry Evergreen Forests of Tamil Nadu, south India. For this, the staff at the Auroville Botanical Garden have planted 1000 trees in patches of tropical dry forest, in which a quarter of the species planted is the Drypetes porteri. Drypetes porteri was thought to be extinct not so long ago, but the botanical garden is aiming to bring it back thanks to their in situ nurseries. 

• In Morocco, together with our partner High Atlas Foundation (HAF), we’re planting fruit and nut trees. Years of intensive grazing depleted the soils in the area of their nutrients and turned them amber. The trees help to restore soils to their original fertility, while providing an additional source of income to local farmers and communities, especially women and at-risk youth. In the past months, the farmers and communities were busy planting 356.866 new trees.

• In Brazil, our partners at Instituto Terra de Preservação Ambiental (ITPA) don't just plant trees - by night, they are fighting the fires that threaten their hard work. The goal of this project is to protect and help at least 25 million trees to grow back in areas in the Atlantic Rainforest that are commonly exposed to fires by means of firefighting and raising awareness on the topic. With the support of your searches the team at ITPA has, among other things, already been able to acquire a lot of equipment, such as a vehicle, mufflers, back blowers, motorized high pressure pump, back pumps, 2 motorcycles, and protective equipment such as uniforms, gloves, and goggles. Aside from stopping fires the team keeps reporting on fire locations and non- affected areas. They also put up signposts around Ecosia’s planting sites that warn about illegal fires and provide a contact number - a direct line for people to reach out to.