The threat of climate change and destruction of the rainforest has risen in prominence this year like never before. We’ve had two special reports from the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (Climate Change and Land, and Global Warming of 1.5ºC); a plethora of documentaries and article, including from the BBC with ‘David Attenborough’s ‘Climate Change: The Facts’ and […]
We talk a lot about the impact that deforestation has on the human race. Without sustainable agroforestry systems in place, we know that deforestation of the Amazon Rainforest can have a huge effect on people — both locally and globally. But what about other species? Deforestation leads to loss of habitat for hundreds of animals […]
Plant Your Future are looking to recruit our first ever Fundraising Manager to help us scale our work in the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest. We want to see agroforestry scaled up across the Amazon Rainforest because we know it can help change lives and effectively battle climate change, ensuring a better planet for us all. But […]
Head to i-news to read Jenny’s Opinion and find out why smallholder farmers are the answer to scaling up tree planting across the globe, and why a newly planted tree in the tropics will be much more effective in tackling climate change than its equivalent planted here in the UK. Read more on the i-news […]
Read Harrison Jones’ article on the Oxford Mail website to read Jenny’s response to the news that we need to plant more trees and how we need to look beyond the UK to warmer-climes where quicker gains can be made.
Last week the news that tree planting was the most effective way to tackle climate change, became big news. Check out Damian Carrington’s article in The Guardian, Matt McGrath’s article on BBC website, and Chiara Giordano’s article in The Independent just as starters. As a charity that plants trees, we’re excited and pleased that awareness […]
The race to restore trees to our Planet is well and truly underway — find out more by reading this article by Patrick Barkham at the Guardian. You can find out more about the Plant Your Future story and what we’re doing to restore the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest, and then do your bit to help […]
Photo: Smallholder farmer, Hugo, showing one of his recently planted Shihuahuaco trees — a native timber. Behind, you can see the cocoa trees that are growing alongside. Each year, a staggering 160,000 hectares are cut down in the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest, often to make room for permanent agricultural land. That’s equivalent to 160,000 football fields […]
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We are over the moon to announce that Plant Your Future is the winner of The Big Give Christmas Challenge 2018 ‘Best Newcomer’ award! It means an additional £1000 added to the £11,747.50 we raised during the week long campaign in December — read more about our campaign in our Christmas Challenge post from earlier this […]
This April (2019) CEO of Rainforest Alliance, Han de Groot, wrote an article in the Scientific American. The article, Forests are a low tech but high impact way to fight climate change, makes the point that the best technology we need to fight the ever increasingly worrying effects of global warming isn’t a technology at all […]