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The
charities I support are:
Trees
for Life www.treesforlife.org.uk
are restoring the Caledonian Forest in
Scotland. The Caledonian Forest originally covered an
estimated 1.5 million hectares only 1% of the forest
remains
Trees
for Life also
do also Volunteer Work Weeks in the Scottish
Highlands - see their web page for details
The Green Belt
Movement www.greenbeltmovement.org
is based in Kenya, founded by Dr.
Wangari Maathai, (the first African woman and the first
environmentalist to receive the Nobel Peace Prize) they
have planted 40 million trees have been planted across
Africa and plan in the next decade to plant one billion
trees worldwide.
The planting of trees is the planting
of ideas. By starting with the simple act of planting a
tree, we give hope to ourselves and to future
generations.–Wangari Maathai
I will be making sure I plant at least one
tree per house each year (Hopefully more!).
Karl Naumann
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