"Planting a tree in a garden in a park in the countryside, forest, is a simple act, within reach of everyone, "said UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner. But this action repeated a billion times leave a footprint in the long term. "
Many associations have mobilized to educate citizens to plant trees on every continent.
In the top three countries farmers can find the Ethiopia with over 700 million trees planted, followed by Mexico with 217 million and Turkey with 150 million.
The initiative continues beyond the billion originally intended. To do this, needless to go to another end of the world. Several French associations organize days of planting trees on the national territory.
The March 7, 2010 for example, NAFA (National Association of foresters) and The Earth Organization (Earth Association) meet to make plantations in the sinks of Villers-Cotterets in Picardy located on the old station purification.
plants, alders in this case, are recovered in a field where they can not reach maturity for lack of living space, and are replanted in the carbon sink maintained by NAFA, the National Association of Agents forest.
Children and parents will be present to learn any thing essential to reduce the amount of CO ² in the atmosphere: plant a tree.
"Overall, a home emits 16.4 tons of carbon dioxide per year to meet its needs. The household energy consumption accounts for 47% of national consumption, "says Noelle Saugout, president of France and TEO author of Caring for the Earth: 365 green behavior in everyday life. "What better way to start with a simple action and fun to offset our carbon emissions? "
ANAF is an association fighting against global warming and TEO (The Earth Organization), founded by Lawrence Anthony famous for having saved the Baghdad Zoo during the war in Iraq, aims to protect biodiversity.
See Article 9 March 2010 The Union newspaper:
http://www.lunion.presse.fr/article/autres-actus/planter-pour-lavenir
It was very cold on Sunday after afternoon, the site of the former sewage treatment plant, but the demonstration planned by the National Association of forest workers (NAFA) and the association TEO (The Earth Organization France) took place under the sun. Raymond
Vasseur, Philippe Froideval for ANAF and Noelle Saugout for TEO, directed the operations. These two associations have common projects: raising public awareness on environmental issues and encourage people to do something to improve the situation.
Nearly thirty people, including children, have participated in a tree planting designed to transform derelict or contaminated land to give them a natural woodland.
Sixty-six alders have been planted in continuity with those who, since last year, have already grown up.
Thus, every year, the plantation area expands, forming a carbon sink, natural process of storing carbon dioxide (CO2), the trees absorbing and holding reserves of carbon by a process of photosynthesis.
trees from nurseries and Montgobert were uprooted and brought to the site by volunteers, well wrapped, took up their shovels and their courage to participate, at their level, to improve health the planet.
