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April 20th '08 - Treeflights set up an innovative community offset 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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April 20th ’08 - Treeflights set up innovative community offset project
With support from the Welsh Assembly’s Gold Star initiative, Treeflights have set up a new community partnership linking Lampeter in mid-Wales with Bore in Kenya. The basis of the scheme is to encourage businesses, individuals and schools in Lampeter to take responsibility for their unavoidable emissions by subsidising the planting of trees in an area of Kenya that is at the sharp end of climate change subject to widespread deforestation. 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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