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Trees For Life - 10 years of tree planting in the ENO Program
The ENO Program gathers again schools in the world to plant trees in their communities on 22
May, the international day for biological diversity.
Theme is Trees For Life. Trees play a vital role in rural and urban populations. They are needed to
enrich and anchor soil, to maximize water supplies, to beautify and humanise townships and urban
areas and to provide shade and shelter. They are also crucial for biodiversity conservation. Products
and services from trees include food, timber, fibre, medicines and energy. The impact of planting
trees is one of the ways of offsetting our carbon emissions.
15 million trees have been planted since 2004, aiming to plant 100 million trees by 2017. This
commitment was highlighted in the overall summary of 700 commitments made for Rio+20
Summit. So far, official governmental support is from Albania, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Lithuania and
The Philippines. For instance, Albania empowers children and youth to plant 10 million trees by
2017 and Kenya 20 million in minimum per year. On regional level, campaign is supported by ENO
Green Cities Network in 43 cities from 22 countries.
ENO Tree Planting Day is a visible part of the ongoing ENO Treelympics 2014, a tree planting
contest and event for ENO network. Schools, their individuals and cities register to event, plant
trees and share the data on the map located on the event website. At the moment, there are
registrations from 112 countries.
We call media to join our local event …… and put here your event schedule and contact details.
ENO Tree Planting Day
www.enotreeday.net
ENO Treelympics 2014
www.treelympics.org