Grow-Trees
Grow-Trees is a Tree Planting Partner of the United Nations Environment Program’s Billion Tree Campaign, Official Partner of WWF’s Cities for Forests Campaign, and Official Partner of United Nations Decade on Biodiversity. They allow you to plant trees on community or public lands and gift flowers, fruit, fodder, and forest produce to communities and living creatures.
Why trees?
Because tree planting creates low-skill jobs, and trees provide benefit to current and future generations, have a direct impact on carbon reduction, restoring forests, improving wildlife habitats, and upgrading water catchment areas, and offer flowers, fruit fodder, and fuel for local communities and all living creatures.
Trees filter our air and keep it fresh by absorbing carbon dioxide and producing oxygen.
Tree roots stabilize the soil and prevent erosion.
Trees improve water quality by slowing and filtering rainwater as well as protecting aquifers and watersheds.
Trees are carbon sinks, accumulating carbon as they grow and acting as stable carbon stores upon maturity.
Three-quarters of the world's people rely on wood as their main source of energy.
Thousands of things are made from trees such as furniture, books, newspapers, houses, hockey sticks, guitars, pencils, fences, milk cartons, even nail polish, and toothpaste.
Trees lower air temperature and induce rainfall by evaporating water from their leaves.
Trees provide food, shade, and shelter to humans and wildlife.
Trees offer protection from the downward fall of rain, sleet, and hail as well as reduce storm run-off and the possibility of flooding.
Trees act as sound barriers to reduce noise pollution.
Trees play a major role in helping to conserve the intensity of the Earth's magnetic field.