Treeflights Lampeter/Bore community offset project
This ground-breaking project, funded by the Welsh Assembly’s Gold Star communities initiative is aimed at forging direct links between Lampeter in mid-Wales and the sub-Saharan town of Bore.
The latest research indicates that we get the strongest ‘cooling effect’ by planting trees within the Tropics and so Bore, which lies within 3 degrees of the Equator is an ideal location for carbon offset forestry. Currently, local farmers in this area have no alternative income to that of cutting down their own forest to make fuel charcoal for the nearby town of Mombassa. The aim of this project is to encourage the community of Lampeter to offset their own emissions of CO2 by funding re-forestation in this poor and marginalised African community.
We have already distributed 2,500 trees to small farmers and are now approaching institutions and businesses in the Lampeter to sponsor these trees as a tangible and direct way of reducing their carbon footprint. Each tree is tagged with the sponsors details and costs £2.50, all of which goes to the community in Kenya as administration costs for this project are covered by our support from the Welsh Assembly.
For those in the community wishing to offset their emissions more locally, we are also able to plant carbon-hungry trees on our main planting site at Pant-y-pond in Carmarthenshire. These are also tagged for verification and cost £10 which reflects the higher cost of land in Wales.
Email admin@treeflights.com for more info on how to join this initiative and reduce your carbon footprint. |
