May Muthuri
Eucalyptus promoting food production, and not drying soil
Presenting Juã and Rômulo, two young men who show that environmental services are the consequence of good agriculture. Continue Reading
How many trees are there in the world?
It’s a simple question: how many trees are there on Earth? The answer required 421,529 measurements from fifty countries on six continents. Now this new data has been combined to produce a stunning visualisation of our planet as you’ve never seen it before. Find the full paper on mapping tree density here: http://www.nature.com/doifinder/10.10… Continue Reading
Global count reaches 3 trillion trees
There are roughly 3 trillion trees on Earth — more than seven times the number previously estimated — according to a tally1 by an international team of scientists. The study also finds that human activity is detrimental to tree abundance worldwide. Around 15 billion trees are cut down each year, the researchers estimate; since the onset of […] Continue Reading
Mapping tree density at a global scale
The global extent and distribution of forest trees is central to our understanding of the terrestrial biosphere. We provide the first spatially continuous map of forest tree density at a global scale. This map reveals that the global number of trees is approximately 3.04 trillion, an order of magnitude higher than the previous estimate. Of […] Continue Reading
Plant-for-the-Planet Initiative: The Trillion Tree Campaign
Felix Finkbeiner was just nine years old when he had an idea to plant 1 million trees in every country on earth. The German primary school student was inspired by the late Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai, founder of the Green Belt Movement with the mission to plant 30 million trees across Africa. But […] Continue Reading
This German Teen Is Leading A Global Plan To Plant A Trillion Trees
Felix Finkbeiner is a young man in a hurry to get the world to plant trees. The 19-year-old from a small Bavarian village near Munich, now studying at a university in London, has founded a global youth movement, Plant For The Planet, which has spearheaded the planting of over 15 billion saplings, signed up 75,000 […] Continue Reading