This Earth Day Birthday: Give a Gift to Our Planet

A Revolution in Social Media

The Replanting the Rainforests program represents a revolution in Social Media.  With a social media network of more than 500,000 environmentally conscious individuals across the globe the Eco Preservation Society has developed a social media platform to link active reforestation projects with Conservationists, Biologists, Students, Interns, Volunteers, Eco Travelers and Sponsors.  

We Can Turn the Tide on Global Deforestation.

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The Earth Day Birthday Campaign is designed to give those of us that care about the environmental health of our planet a vehicle for effecting change.  This is a grass roots campaign that is designed to empower people to help shape the destiny of the Earth without the need of governments and global institutions.  This campaign is designed to engage people and to reach across borders and join together all those that care about our environmental future.

Earth Day Birthday - Give a Gift to Our Planet - Replanting the Rainforests

Replanting the Rainforests is not a passive program for conserving existing rainforests.  Protecting our last remaining forests is vitally important, but it is not sufficient. Over 80 percent of the planet's native forests are gone! We must do more if we are to maintain a healthy environment for future generations. 

Replanting the Rainforests is not another "Plant a Tree" campaign. Virtually all tree-planting campaigns in third world countries take place on lands that have a history of illegal deforestation. Many programs take place on farmlands. Ask yourself: What do farmers do for a living? They plant things, they grow things, and they cut them down and sell them. This is clearly not the way forward if we want to permanently reestablish our lost forests.

What makes us different?

Sustainably Managed Permanent Rainforest Habitats TM

The Replanting the Rainforest Program creates Sustainably Managed Permanent Rainforest Habitats TM.  Within these habitats both sustainable forestry and permagriculture techniques will be employed that will as close as possible mimic natural processes so as not to upset the continuity of the forest environment.  The natural array of biodiversity is meticulously safeguarded, while at the same time we create the economic engine necessary to prevent the un-sustainable exploitation of the resource.

Our focus is to find under-producing agricultural lands, cattle ranches and degraded forests and restore them to more natural conditions.  Our methods include analog forestry, wildlife habitat enhancement, biomass carbon negative energy production, and BioChar soil augmentation and edible forest gardens.

The Earth Day Birthday Campaign is run by the Eco Preservation Society

We are Turning the Tide on Global Deforestation

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Global Participation - A Revolution in Social Media

A Revolution in Social Media

The Replanting the Rainforests program represents a revolution in Social Media.  With a social media network of more than 500,000 environmentally conscious individuals across the globe the Eco Preservation Society has developed a social media platform to link active reforestation projects with Conservationists, Biologists, Students, Interns, Volunteers, Eco Travelers and Sponsors from around the world.  If you are interested in getting involved, please click here to see what you can do.

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BioChar & Soil Augmentation

 

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Biochar – soil enriching, carbon gobbling, lo-tech remedy to greenhouse emissions

Invented by our ancestors, deposits of Biochar enhanced soil, called Terra Preta, have been found in vast areas of the Amazon basin, Ecuador and Peru, as well as in parts of West Africa, the South African savanna and late Roman Britain. The Terra Preta in the Amazon, where it is most prevalent, was created by humans 2500 years ago, and it is still regenerating.

 

Sustainably Managed Permanent Rain Forest Habitats

Samboja Lestari

The Sustainably Managed Permanent Rainforest Habitat TM concept is a key differentiation point with other Tree Planting projects run by other organizations.

Because these programs do not have control of the lands where the trees are planted and in most cases the trees are planted in areas that have a history of deforestation.  Many programs take place on farmlands. Ask yourself: What do farmers do for a living? They plant things, they grow things, and they cut them down and sell them.

What we do is different.  Our projects mix a variety of technologies to create an economic engine to support the creation of these habitats.  These technologies include analog (sustainable) forestry, wildlife habitat enhancement, biomass carbon negative energy production, BioChar soil augmentation and edible forest gardens (Permaculture).

To get a better idea of how this works, watch this extraordinary video from Willie Smits of BOS.

In many parts of the world, it is critical that we plant a lot of trees and return a lot of land to forest. The loss of the forest contributes to loss of habitat for animals, a reduction in available drinkable water, loss of soil and even landslides that destroy Smaboja Lestaritowns and villages. We also need to increase the number of trees to absorb the excess gases that cause global warming. Moreover, there is a direct link between deforestation and drought, which has become a severe and worsening problem - totally reversible through reforestation - throughout the tropics.

Most reforestation efforts are being spent on plantations, not on genuine new forests. We use the term "reforestation" a lot, but in reality, unless the lands are permanently returned to forest, you are not reforesting, you are raising a crop of trees. Tree plantations can reduce commercial pressure on remaining forests, but they are not themselves new forests. Just like a loss of trees is not deforestation unless the land usage permanently changes, it isn't reforestation unless the end result is a forest.

Through the years many organizations, Rainforest Action Network, The Nature Conservancy, the Sierra Club, etc. have seen the value of the forests and have worked diligently to protect them. Unfortunately, in spite of their efforts, the rainforests of the planet continue to shrink, and the animals that live in the forests continue to fall into extinction.

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