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November '09 - New Community Carbon Forest Reserve established in Kenya
March '09 - Treeflights awarded grant for new Community Carbon Link
December 08 - Treeflights Lampeter/Bore community carbon project
November 19th ’07 - Treeflights goes Organic
November 11th ’07 – Treeflights featured in The Big Issue
July
15th ’07 - Launch of Unique Rainforest Treeflights
Service
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November '09 New Community Carbon Forest Reserve established in Kenya
In a major new development of the Community Carbon Link which is administered by Treeflights, two local businesses and the community interest company, Primate Handshake.Org, based at Lampeter University, have put up the funds to secure a 10 acre plot of Kenyan forest on behalf of the whole Welsh community.
Any resident or business in the area can now make their own direct contribution by sponsoring 20 square metres of 'Lampeter's Tropical Forest in Bore' for a pound.
With this 'Community Carbon Forest Reserve', Lampeter is now the first town in Wales and possibly in the world to be taking responsibility as a community for its share in creating climate change and slowing tropical deforestation. More info here >>
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March '09 Treeflights awarded grant for new Community Carbon Link
At the end of February '09 Treeflights were awarded a grant of £4,000 from the Waterloo Foundation to help develop the Kenyan end of the Lampeter/Bore Community Carbon Link. The community in Bore is overjoyed by this and are busily propagating more tree seedlings with the help of Andrew Wright. Long term we are aiming to increase the range of species for distribution, support the local primary school and initiate a variety of projects that reduce the farmers dependency on cutting down their existing forest for charcoal. More info here >>
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December 10th ’08 - Treeflights Lampeter/Bore community carbon 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 and protecting forests within the Tropics and so Bore, which lies within 3 degrees of the Equator is an ideal location for carbon absorption 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 Mombasa. The aim of this project is to encourage the community in Lampeter to take responsibility for their own emissions of CO2 by funding re-forestation in this poor and marginalised African community. Read full story here>>
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November 19th ’07 - Treeflights goes Organic
Treeflights has always planted according to organic principles but from this month our main planting site at Pant-y-pond in mid-Wales is starting conversion to full organic status. Certified with the Soil Association, this process will take 2 years to complete and is part of our long-term commitment to the creating sustainable, healthy forest that is full of wildlife.
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Big Issue 11th - November 07 Out on a Limb
Carbon offsets have had a very hard time in the British press over the last year. We are really happy that the Big Issue has featured us in a positive light here. Whilst there are clearly many issues with planting trees to absorb carbon, at Treeflights we are trying to find ways to do this ethically because we believe that trees can play a critical part in our challenge to fight climate change. 'Read the full feature here>>
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July
15th ’07 - Launch of Unique Rainforest Treeflights
Service
Recent
research from Ken Caldiera of the U.S. Carnegie Institute indicates that the best place to plant trees
to reduce global warming is in the tropics. We can
announce that from today we are taking orders to plant
rainforest trees such as Mahogany and Cedar in the
Peruvian Amazon. We
are working with Ecotribal and Ashaninka treeplanters
to offer our Treeflight offset service in the tropical
rainforest for the first time. In the last few years
illegal logging has started to impact on the territory
of this precious indigenous culture and we are proud
to be in partnership with the Ashaninka to offer this
unique carbon offset.
People
who are releasing CO2 and want to do something about
it can now choose from 9 rainforest species which will
gradually absorb their emissions whilst protecting
the tremendous and essential bio-diversity of the Amazon
and at the same time help to support an endangered
tribal culture. Planting will commence at the end of
the current dry season during October 2007 on an initial
one hectare planting site near the village of Tinkareni.
This village is located on the Rio Ene in the central
Peruvian Amazon. For
more details: Peru Info
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