The Million Tree Project
April 8, 2012, Sunday
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Tree planting is one of the best ways to protect and improve the environment, especially by preventing land erosion and sandstorms. The Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region is the focus of many tree-planting efforts.
Shanghai Roots & Shoots, branch of an international NGO, focuses on the Million Tree Project, which gives individuals, organizations and enterprises an opportunity to fight global warming by planting oxygen-producing trees in Inner Mongolia.
The project is designed to improve both environment and living conditions of Kulun Banner in Tongliao city, in eastern Inner Mongolia. The area suffers severely from desertification and its resulting sandstorms.
Local farmers and tree planters plant, tend, irrigate and maintain the trees. Roots & Shoots also works with the Youth League of Kulun Banner to involve local students, encouraging them to get involved by measuring the growth of trees, assessing the ecological impact of the trees and creating a database for long-term project development.
The project mostly plants hardy hybrid poplars (populus simonii), which are particularly effective at absorbing carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen. The trees are native to Inner Mongolia and considered ideal for the project, according to experts from the Forestry Bureau of Kulun Banner and Oregon State University in the United States.
Check www.mtpchina.org for more.
Shanghai Roots & Shoots, branch of an international NGO, focuses on the Million Tree Project, which gives individuals, organizations and enterprises an opportunity to fight global warming by planting oxygen-producing trees in Inner Mongolia.
The project is designed to improve both environment and living conditions of Kulun Banner in Tongliao city, in eastern Inner Mongolia. The area suffers severely from desertification and its resulting sandstorms.
Local farmers and tree planters plant, tend, irrigate and maintain the trees. Roots & Shoots also works with the Youth League of Kulun Banner to involve local students, encouraging them to get involved by measuring the growth of trees, assessing the ecological impact of the trees and creating a database for long-term project development.
The project mostly plants hardy hybrid poplars (populus simonii), which are particularly effective at absorbing carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen. The trees are native to Inner Mongolia and considered ideal for the project, according to experts from the Forestry Bureau of Kulun Banner and Oregon State University in the United States.
Check www.mtpchina.org for more.
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