Up to 10% of Covid-19 infections are Doctors and Health Workers that don't have enough medical supplies to protect themselves when they help us.
During this pandemic, in addition to the trees planted we will DONATE 100% OF PROCEEDS towards purchasing professional face masks for healthcare workers!
We’re used to helping the Earth breathe.
Now, let’s also help our healthcare workers breathe too.
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The coronavirus crisis has no need for further explanation as you probably already know that COVID-19 has impacted all our live.
We’ve been using our knowledge and expertise to help with Treevotion, planting trees with every purchase and helping reforestation in the way we can.
It’s been a few weeks since the pandemic started and we’ve been thinking about how to help, because bottom line: We’re here to help. We feel we’ve been put in this world to make it a better place.
Back when we started Treevotion, we decided the environment was the best place to do so, but you know what? Things have changed for all of us! Priorities have changed, and it would be foolish to just sit at home and do nothing, while this virus continues to infect and kill people everywhere.
So why not help with this thing?
How we decided to HELP during the COVID-19 crisis
Healthcare workers around the world are fighting for us on the front lines, but they are all in desperate need for supplies. The most urgent problem are face masks.
Face masks help doctors, nurses and all staff to avoid infections, since they are now around 10% of all victims of the virus. So let's help them together! We think that in the same way that we come together to help plant trees and reforest the world, we can help purchase these much needed face masks.
Therefore, we decided that for now, all proceeds from sales will be donated in order to purchase this equipment that is so desperately needed for fighting the virus.
Join us now and purchase any item in our store, ALL PROCEEDS will be donated towards purchasing professional face masks for healthcare workers!
We have an important insight.
An average person spends 4 hours a day on their phone.
Most of the content shared nowadays in social networks like Instagram, Facebook and Snapchat is about irrelevant, trivial and many times superficial things that we are doing every day. We might believe that’s “cool” to share, as when we travel abroad to a nice place, go to a friend’s party, go for a walk with our dog, eat something tasty or even just random stuff.
It is already proven by neuroscience that frequent consumption of this type of content might even affect viewers and make them unhappy about their lives because “everyone seems to be having a good time” while they are working, studying or maybe just lying in their beds, for example.
It’s also proven that we are influenced by this kind of media (hence the “Influencers” trend on social networks), so if we see some friends going out, we might eventually want to do the same, or if many friends are posting about food, we might also get hungry. Whatever your influence circle shares or posts, you will be indeed influenced.
So where’s charity, helping others, good deeds and green footprint in this social media world? Most content about these important matters is shared almost exclusively by the few non-profits out there that are trying to do the best with the (usually) few resources that they get mostly from donations. But it becomes really difficult to gain traction and become massive.
Let’s face it: In most cases, showing and sharing how you help is (for some strange and incredible reason) NOT cool. You might be quickly judged as snob, or being too proud, like you’re trying to show off.
This doesn’t make any sense at all! How could helping and inspiring your friends to help, be perceived as something not “share-worthy”? We believe these should be the best and coolest things to share, to influence your circle and promote doing good deeds :)
It’s also proven that on those few occasions when people start sharing how they’re helping, for example, when there’s a natural disaster, everybody gets influenced and inspired to help, so they start doing it also, even if they weren’t planning on doing so before, because a momentum is built and that “showing off” judgment is paused for a moment. But as soon as the momentum (like an earthquake aftermath) is gone or significantly reduced, people stop sharing what they’re doing to help others.
So our proposal, our dream, our dent is to start showing the help, posting it, sharing it and to change this pattern in our society. Let’s make charity cool and viral. Let’s use our social media in a better way, a way that inspires people to do good, to leave a green footprint, to support a cause, to do random acts of kindness. Let’s consume more kindness and less egos.
We can do it together!
Use these hashtags and start this trend 💚
#shareyourhelp #postyourhelp #makecharitycool
]]>Deforestation, the clearing or thinning of forests by humans. Deforestation represents one of the largest issues in global land use. Estimates of deforestation traditionally are based on the area of forest cleared for human use, including removal of the trees for wood products and for croplands and grazing lands. In the practice of clear-cutting, all the trees are removed from the land, which completely destroys the forest. In some cases, however, even partial logging and accidental fires thin out the trees enough to change the forest structure dramatically.
Conversion of forests to land used for other purposes has a long history. Earth’s croplands, which cover about 49 million square km (18.9 million square miles), are mostly deforested land. Most present-day croplands receive enough rain and are warm enough to have once supported forests of one kind or another. Only about 1 million square km (390,000 square miles) of cropland are in areas that would have been cool boreal forests, as in Scandinavia and northern Canada. Much of the remainder was once moist subtropical or tropical forest or, in eastern North America, western Europe, and eastern China, temperate forest.
The extent to which forests have become Earth’s grazing lands is much more difficult to assess. Cattle or sheep pastures in North America or Europe are easy to identify, and they support large numbers of animals. At least 2 million square km (772,204 square miles) of such forests have been cleared for grazing lands. Less certain are the humid tropical forests and some drier tropical woodlands that have been cleared for grazing. These often support only very low numbers of domestic grazing animals, but they may still be considered grazing lands by national authorities. Almost half the world is made up of “drylands”—areas too dry to support large numbers of trees—and most are considered grazing lands. There, goats, sheep, and cattle may harm what few trees are able to grow.
Although most of the areas cleared for crops and grazing represent permanent and continuing deforestation, deforestation can be transient. About half of eastern North America lay deforested in the 1870s, almost all of it having been deforested at least once since European colonization in the early 1600s. Since the 1870s the region’s forest cover has increased, though most of the trees are relatively young. Few places exist in eastern North America that retain stands of uncut old-growth forests.
A major contributor to tropical deforestation is the practice of slash-and-burn agriculture, or swidden agriculture (see also shifting agriculture). Small-scale farmers clear forests by burning them and then grow crops in the soils fertilized by the ashes. Typically, the land produces for only a few years and then must be abandoned and new patches of forest burned. Fire is also commonly used to clear forests in Southeast Asia, tropical Africa, and the Americas for permanent oil palm plantations.
The Amazon Rainforest is the largest remaining block of humid tropical forest, and about two-thirds of it is in Brazil. (The rest lies along that country’s borders to the west and to the north.) Studies in the Amazon reveal that about 5,000 square km (1,931 square miles) are at least partially logged each year. In addition, each year fires burn an area about half as large as the areas that are cleared. Even when the forest is not entirely cleared, what remains is often a patchwork of forests and fields or, in the event of more intensive deforestation, “islands” of forest surrounded by a “sea” of deforested areas.
Deforested lands are being replanted in some areas. Some of this replanting is done to replenish logging areas for future exploitation, and some replanting is done as a form of ecological restoration, with the reforested areas made into protected land. Additionally, significant areas are planted as monotypic plantations for lumber or paper production. These are often plantations of eucalyptus or fast-growing pines—and almost always of species that are not native to the places where they are planted. The FAO estimates that there are approximately 1.3 million square km (500,000 square miles) of such plantations on Earth.
Many replanting efforts are led and funded by the United Nations and nongovernmental organizations. However, some national governments have also undertaken ambitious replanting projects. For example, starting in 2017, the government of New Zealand sought to plant more than 100 million trees per year within its borders, but perhaps the most ambitious replanting project took place in India on a single day in 2017, when citizens planted some 66 million trees.
Deforestation has important global consequences. Forests sequester carbon in the form of wood and other biomass as the trees grow, taking up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere (see carbon cycle). When forests are burned, their carbon is returned to the atmosphere as carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that has the potential to alter global climate (see greenhouse effect; global warming), and the trees are no longer present to sequester more carbon.
In addition, most of the planet’s valuable biodiversity is within forests, particularly tropical ones. Moist tropical forests such as the Amazon have the greatest concentrations of animal and plant species of any terrestrial ecosystem; perhaps two-thirds of Earth’s species live only in these forests. As deforestation proceeds, it has the potential to cause the extinction of increasing numbers of these species.
On a more local scale, the effects of forest clearing, selective logging, and fires interact. Selective logging increases the flammability of the forest because it converts a closed, wetter forest into a more open, drier one. This leaves the forest vulnerable to the accidental movement of fires from cleared adjacent agricultural lands and to the killing effects of natural droughts. As wildfires, logging, and droughts continue, the forest can become progressively more open until all the trees are lost. Additionally, the burning of tropical forests is generally a seasonal phenomenon and can severely impact air quality. Record-breaking levels of air pollution have occurred in Southeast Asia as the result of burning for oil palm plantations.
In the tropics, much of the deforested land exists in the form of steep mountain hillsides. The combination of steep slopes, high rainfall, and the lack of tree roots to bind the soil can lead to disastrous landslides that destroy fields, homes, and human lives. With the significant exception of the forests destroyed for the oil palm industry, many of the humid forests that have been cleared are soon abandoned as croplands or only used for low-density grazing because the soils are extremely poor in nutrients. (To clear forests, the vegetation that contains most of the nutrients is often burned, and the nutrients literally “go up in smoke” or are washed away in the next rain.)
Although forests may regrow after being cleared and then abandoned, this is not always the case, especially if the remaining forests are highly fragmented. Such habitat fragmentation isolates populations of plant and animal species from each other, making it difficult to reproduce without genetic bottlenecks, and the fragments may be too small to support large or territorial animals. Furthermore, deforested lands that are planted with commercially important trees lack biodiversityand do not serve as habitats for native plants and animals, many of which are endangered species.
Source: https://www.britannica.com/