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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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  New Community Carbon Forest Reserve established in Kenya

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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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  Distribution of Cashew Nuts in Kenya

 

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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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