If you understand the relationship between trees and climate change, if you learn how to observe the landscapes of your country with the eyes of a climate scientist; you will be better able to act upon it.
In this video we show you 3 basic signs in any landscape that point at evidence and causes of a changing climate: monocultures, bare soil and the lack of trees on mountain slopes.
Already these three patterns on any landscape are a sign of how humans trigger climate change.
But most of us live in cities. As more and more people grow up surrounded by buildings and asphalt, we have forgotten how to read landscapes: how to tell whether forests are shrinking, how climate change affects animals or whether the quality of the soil is changing.
And yet, reading a landscape correctly is important. If you understand what’s going on, you can hold local and national authorities accountable to do something about it before it’s too late.
Their latest tree update comes from one of Ecosia’s first grown forests in Borneo, Indonesia, where their searches are helping restore the habitat of endangered wildlife species like the orangutan. Ecosia started planting trees in Indonesia only two and a half years ago. Today, the forest is slowly coming back, which is creating economic value for the local farmers whose livelihood depends on forest goods like nuts, fruits and medicinal herbs.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, and after the first nine months of collaboration with Eden Reforestation Projects in Haiti, they have planted 230,000 trees. These trees will protect watersheds from erosion and, as they grow over the years, their roots will absorb rainwater, halting floods that damage people’s houses and farming lands.
Their tree-planting partners in Burkina Faso are now also working in Mali. Hommes et Terre is applying the same techniques in this neighbouring country who shares their climatic conditions. Half-moon shaped holes have been dug up in the planting sites and in the following months Ecosia-financed seeds will be planted in them, waiting for the next rainy season to start growing and re-greening the desert.
Ecosia is the search engine that plants trees. Every month they invest at least 80% of their surplus in tree planting projects all over the world.
