Celebrate Earth Day with The Nature Conservancy’s Plant a Billion Trees Campaign

Campaign Supports Tree-Planting Efforts in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil

Arlington, VA (Vocus/PRWEB ) April 21, 2008 -- The Nature Conservancy’s "Plant a Billion Trees Campaign" is able-bodied on its way to extensive its ambition of abating and burying one billion copse by 2015 in one of the world’s a lot of threatened landscapes.

Plant a Billion Trees Campaign We’re captivated with the Plant a Billion Trees Campaign’s success so anon afterwards its kick-off Just brainstorm the appulse the attack will accept on attention efforts in the Atlantic Forest over the next seven years. Even the aboriginal aggregate has a huge appulse on the campaign’s success. One dollar brings us one timberline afterpiece to our billion-tree goal We’re auspicious all visitors to plantabillion.org to accede altruistic as little as one dollar to the campaign. It’s a simple way to bless Earth Day, and you’ll be allowance to assure this amazing close backwoods for ancestors to come. Since its barrage on April 3, the attack has aloft over $245,000 to reforest Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, one of the greatest repositories of biodiversity on Earth.

“We’re captivated with the Plant a Billion Trees Campaign’s success so anon afterwards its kick-off,” said Sue Citro, chief administrator of agenda associates at The Nature Conservancy. “Just brainstorm the appulse the attack will accept on attention efforts in the Atlantic Forest over the next seven years.”

On the campaign’s web site, plantabillion.org, visitors can apprentice added about the project, analyze the Atlantic Forest through an alternate map highlighting the people, plants and animals of this amazing region, get complex by cogent friends, or downloading a accoutrement to accession acquaintance and funds on amusing networks like Facebook and MySpace. Visitors can aswell bulb a timberline by altruistic to the campaign—just one dollar can accomplish a absolute difference.

“Even the aboriginal aggregate has a huge appulse on the campaign’s success. One dollar brings us one timberline afterpiece to our billion-tree goal,” said Citro. “We’re auspicious all visitors to plantabillion.org to accede altruistic as little as one dollar to the campaign. It’s a simple way to bless Earth Day, and you’ll be allowance to assure this amazing close backwoods for ancestors to come.”

To advice save paper, anniversary timberline donor will accept an online acknowledgement, as able-bodied as e-updates on the attack and the Atlantic Forest throughout the year.

Once alert the admeasurement of Texas, the Atlantic Forest spanned above eastern Brazil, arctic Argentina and eastern Paraguay. Yet today, added than 93 percent of the backwoods has been austere to axle Brazil’s accelerated development and abutment the region’s 130 actor residents, 70 percent of Brazil’s population.

Although the actual 7 percent is awful fragmented, these endure stands of abundant backwoods anchorage one of the greatest repositories of biodiversity on Earth.

Just a baby atom of the admeasurement of the abundant Amazon rainforest, the Atlantic Forest is home to 1,180 bearcat breed – mammals, amphibians, reptiles, fish, and birds – apery 5% of the vertebrates on Earth. More than 800 of those breed are different to the Atlantic Forest, and added than 60% of all of Brazil’s threatened animals alarm this backwoods home.

The Conservancy’s Atlantic Forest Program will plan with a able affiliation of assorted Brazilian and all-embracing ally to reconnect backwoods bits through accelerated and all-embracing reforestation, actualize bread-and-butter incentives for conservation, apparatus acceptable use of accustomed resources, and actualize able aegis of accessible and clandestine reserves.

To apprentice added about The Nature Conservancy’s Plant a Billion Trees Campaign, visit: www.plantabillion.org.

The Nature Conservancy is a arch attention alignment alive about the apple to assure ecologically important acreage and amnion for attributes and people. To date, the Conservancy and its added than one actor associates accept been amenable for the aegis of added than 18 actor acreage in the United States and accept helped bottle added than 117 actor acreage in Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific. Visit The Nature Conservancy on the Web at www.nature.org.