Climate Emergency

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There are a lot of ways you can help to preserve this beautiful planet, but we would argue that the most important way to do that is by taking care of yourself first. Let’s be honest, if you aren’t functioning as a healthy and thriving human, then you could actually be contributing to the detriment of the environment around you, so let’s sort ourselves out first.
So, the question is &#8211; <a href="https://mailchi.mp/882f181cb62c/regenroom" target="_blank" rel="noopener">how can I regenerate the environment and myself?</a>
We’ve got a few recommendations for you but before we get into it, the most important thing to remember is that YOU are nature. There is no separation.

We all know that to be operating at our highest or most regenerated self, we need to practice self-care. Get at least 7.5 hours of sleep a night, drink lots of water consistently throughout the day (especially in the morning to get your insides moving). If you’re not healthy, your environment can’t be healthy either &#8211; because remember, you’re part of it!
Being healthy has a compounding effect. Healthy people tend to make healthy decisions when it comes to what and how they consume. Unhealthy people tend to make poor decisions and can easily fall into overconsumption habits. It’s easy to not care about your environment when you don’t even care for yourself.
We would add meditation and exercise, although it is important to acknowledge that everyone has their different ways of doing this. 10 minutes of meditation a day and 20 minutes of exercise at least 3 times a week is a good start.

Ask lots of questions of the people around you and question the systems around you. Don’t let the systems beat your essence out of you. Remain curious and follow your passions. <a href="https://www.futuregiving.co/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">What lights you up? Go and do that.</a>
Ask yourself questions like: “What is the world asking of me today?”, “How can I serve my relationships?”, “How can I be a worthy ancestor?”

We take a lot of information around us as fact when actually a lot of the information we are fed is not fact so think about where you get your information. 
You could call this your information ecology, it’s the information you are surrounded by, you could also call this your information environment.
You can choose where you are receiving information so make sure to be vigilant with what is piercing through into your consciousness.

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The world needs more people living in their authenticity. Question who you truly are and figure out what you care about and value. Then spend time doing those things. <a href="https://www.reunion.earth/riseup">The Reunion Rise Up Program</a> is a great place to uncover these truths. Always practice your communication skills and be intentional when you engage in conversations so that you can express your truth.

Our ancestors have lived with the lands for thousands of years and although we are now living in the modern world, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPt37xCXVfs&amp;t=30s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">there are valuable lessons to be learned from the past. </a>
Where do you start with this one? Easy! Learn about your own family history. It’s very valuable to know your own lineage and then own that as your own story. It&#8217;s a part of you, whether you like it or not. Question your parents and grandparents, dig deep and see what you can learn.

We are living through an amazing moment in time and right now we have an opportunity to slow down and practice deep listening.
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<li>Listen to yourself, what do you need to keep your cup full?</li>
<li>Listen to nature, what is she asking for?</li>
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Reflect and answer these questions. Then share your truth with the world.

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The Million Tree Pledge: an effort to change the world  

<h3>“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world: indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” &#8211; Margaret Mead. </h3>
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This quote displayed at pride of place on the Million Tree Pledge website really sums up what they, as a movement, are trying to do. They have created a platform to connect and inspire small groups of people to help change the world by making a commitment to plant 1 million trees each.

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The Million Tree Pledge is a group of businesses and ambitious individuals who have come together to take action and do something radical in response to the climate emergency. Each pledger has made a bold, two-part commitment to: 
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The Million Tree Pledge aims to have tens of thousands of pledgers in the next few years, collectively planting billions of trees around the world in the places where they are needed the most. This community is rising up, to draw carbon down from the atmosphere, drawing down significantly more carbon than their own lifetime emissions. That&#8217;s why the slogan for this pledge is the powerful  #RiseUpDrawDown.

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There are many ways to change the world and many different things that are needed. However, at Ecologi, we believe that planting trees is a great way to start, and the folks at the Million Tree Pledge definitely agree with us there. It’s now common knowledge that one of the best tools to tackle the climate crisis and keep our temperatures from rising above 1.5°C is to plant trees.
Trees are also crucial in preventing ecological collapse and preserving the world&#8217;s biodiversity. They provide habitat, shade, shelter and food for local wildlife, support local communities and stabilise soils to minimize the risk of natural hazards like landslides. They also help to purify air and water sources and even have a positive effect on our mental health.

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The founding members of the Million Tree Pledge were already drawing down their carbon footprints by planting trees through Ecologi. A number of them had the same personal ambition of planting 1 million trees. When they realised this, Marcus Hemsley, one of the founders, came up with the idea of a pledge site where people could formally commit to planting 1 million trees and also encourage others to do the same. 
Launched on Earth Day 2021, there are already 34 individuals and businesses signed up to the Million Tree Pledge and 31 million trees have been pledged so far!  In just 8 months, the MTP has already collectively planted 4.8 million trees, and are aiming to reach 5 million by the end of the year.

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The great thing about the Million Tree Pledge is that it is for everyone, with an emphasis on SMEs (small and medium sized enterprises), with ambitious sustainability goals. It’s all about providing small businesses with a way to have a massive impact by taking on a huge challenge and setting themselves ambitious targets that will involve making some changes and employing some pretty creative initiative and engineering in order to achieve them.
Some examples of businesses that have already committed to this challenge include <a href="https://ecologi.com/create" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Create</a> (283,223 trees so far!), <a href="https://ecologi.com/thrive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Thrive Accountants</a> (57,439 trees), and <a href="https://ecologi.com/propellernet" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Propellernet</a> (358,747 trees so far!).

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In August 2021, <a href="https://ecologi.com/krystal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Krystal Hosting</a> became not only the first member of the Million Tree Pledger to complete their pledge, but also our first Ecologi partner to achieve 1 Million trees planted!
We’re so proud to work with Krystal and we love seeing all their inspiring, planet-saving work. Planting 1 Million trees is only one part of Krystal’s wider green strategy which includes being one of the first website hosting services to be powered by 100% renewable energy, having their data centre facility supplied by 100% green power, and offering their staff incentive schemes to encourage all Krystal employees to switch to 100% renewable energy at home too.
A great many other businesses have signed up so far too! Some of these include:  

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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://ecologi.com/create" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Create</a></li>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://ecologi.com/parcelmonkey" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Parcel Monkey</a></li>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://ecologi.com/utilities4lessltd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">U4L</a></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://ecologi.com/thrive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Thrive Accountants</a></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://ecologi.com/remarkably" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Remarkably</a></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://ecologi.com/climbingtrees" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Climbing Trees</a></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://ecologi.com/bima/msq" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MSQ</a></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://ecologi.com/londonspeakerbureau" target="_blank" rel="noopener">London Speaker Bureau</a></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://ecologi.com/reverse">Reverse</a></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://ecologi.com/glowinnovationlimited" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Glow Innovation Limited</a></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://ecologi.com/glowinnovationlimited/fineartbykirsteenthomson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fine Art By Kirsteen Thomson</a></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://ecologi.com/glowinnovationlimited/chloebullock" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Materialise Interiors</a></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://ecologi.com/glowinnovationlimited/simbiotikltd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Simbiotik</a></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://ecologi.com/reddico" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reddico</a></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://ecologi.com/majority" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Majority</a></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://ecologi.com/jeremystern" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PromoVeritas</a></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://straightforward.design/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Straight Forward Design</a></li>
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The Collective Forest - making the MTP accessible to all 

The Collective Forest is another amazing collective action story from our Million Tree Pledge community. Laura Gelder-Robertson from <a href="https://ecologi.com/glowinnovationlimited" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Glow Innovation Limited</a> set up the Collective Forest as a way to make the Million Tree Pledge accessible to everyone &#8211; even the smallest of micro businesses! 
In order to join the Million Tree Pledge, businesses and individuals need to have 10,000 trees planted with Ecologi or another verified tree planting provider. (It’s important that these trees are planted with reputable providers to ensure they can be evidenced). This 10,000 tree buy-in (just £1,240 through Ecologi) is still a big reach for micro businesses, sole traders and new businesses just yet starting out, and some just can’t afford this outlay. So, to make the movement more accessible, Laura decided to start a collective forest in which smaller businesses could team up to work towards the goal of planting 1 million trees.  
On the first Monday of COP26, Laura marked the occasion by spending her entire life savings on planting 100,000 trees. She hoped to inspire others to join her in working as a team to reach 1 million, and this hope has already been proved possible. Small businesses that want to take part now just need to put forward 1000 trees (£124)  to join Laura’s ‘Parent’ Ecologi forest and become part of the movement. This Collective Forest has already welcomed two new pledgers, <a href="https://ecologi.com/glowinnovationlimited/fineartbykirsteenthomson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fine Art by Kirsteen Thomson</a> and <a href="https://ecologi.com/glowinnovationlimited/chloebullock" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Materialise Interiors</a>. You can see how the Collective Forest works by viewing Laura’s <a href="https://ecologi.com/glowinnovationlimited" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Glow Innovation Limited forest</a>.
In an<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWeoF6n7dg0" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> interview </a>with Marcus Hemsley, Laura talked about what drove her to start the Collective Forest. She said that she knew some of the pledgers, and everything they were talking about was about 100 times more ambitious than what she was thinking at the time. She thought  “I’m a one woman band &#8211; but what&#8217;s stopping me from becoming just as ambitious as them?”. So, Laura pitched to the group that she could probably plant 100,000 trees, and probably find another 9 small businesses that could do the same, and it is certainly already looking that way. 
In this interview, Laura describes the warm reception she received from alumni at Cambridge University and how people high up in big businesses, sustainability and multinational corporations were just a little bit gobsmacked (as we all were!) If one person can pledge that much, it makes the 1 million trees that they planted as a massive business last year pale into insignificance. This was exactly Laura’s intention: getting everyone to amp up the ambition. She emphasises that it is all about doing everything we can to massively up the commitment from everyone.  By throwing down the gauntlet to all businesses, we can make sure that everyone gets involved in the fight to reverse the climate crisis and show the bigger businesses exactly how much is expected and needed from them. She says, “Time isn&#8217;t on our side”, and “it&#8217;s absolutely an emergency”, and that we need to act NOW.
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In her interview, Laura mentions ‘The Hummingbird Mindset”. This is the African fable about a fire in a forest. While the fire rages through the trees, all the animals are watching in fear apart from the smallest hummingbird who keeps on filling its beak with water from the river to drop on the fire. It returns countless times in an effort to distinguish the fire. When asked by the other animals “what is it doing?”, it replies, “I’m doing the most I can”. 
The message from this rings strong in that if everyone did the maximum they could do, we would be so much more likely to be able to “put out the fire”, and halt and reverse the climate crisis. Individuals and small businesses can and must do their part, whether that is pledging to plant 1 million trees with the <a href="https://www.milliontreepledge.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Million Tree Pledge</a>, or forming an <a href="https://ecologi.com/glowinnovationlimited" target="_blank" rel="noopener">alliance</a> in order to do so. We have to all take action and do the most that we can &#8211; it&#8217;s the only way in which we actually can change the world.
<a href="https://ecologi.com/plan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sign up today to take real climate action with Ecologi</a>.

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From 1st February 2022, the cost of purchasing a verified tonne of carbon reduction via our API is increasing from £3.70 to £6.50. The same change has been implemented on our platform as of today (18th January). These changes are due to significant increases in market prices. This will not affect subscription plans at this time.
Industry-wide, the cost of buying and retiring one tonne of carbon <a href="https://carboncredits.com/carbon-prices-today/">has increased dramatically over the past year</a>. This means we need to update the pricing for carbon via our API, so that it more closely matches the real cost of carbon in the market.
At Ecologi, impact is our foremost goal which means we continuously strive to balance cost and quality. <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dACvzjE5nBE1cKZBAhYzsUa7rIiLJqCWXVgY4bNS8_Q/edit#gid=766227634">Our public ledger</a> gives you direct insight into our purchasing philosophy and visualises how we distribute our income between operational costs and impact. 
If you have any questions, please contact <a href="mailto:sales@ecologi.com">sales@ecologi.com.</a>
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We love planting trees – but that’s not all we do. Ecologi also helps preserve the world’s existing forests by supporting carbon reduction projects that prevent degradation and deforestation.

Why are forest protection projects important?

Home to most of the world’s biodiversity, forests also play a crucial role in supporting the supply of water, and help to combat climate change. Additionally, forests all over the world provide livelihoods for local communities and are essential for food production. The forest protection projects Ecologi supports are important because forests across the planet are being destroyed at alarming rates. Since the 90s, roughly <a href="http://www.fao.org/3/ca8642en/CA8642EN.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">420 million hectares of forest</a> have been lost to make room for <a href="https://ecologi.com/articles/blog/industries-and-sectors-driving-deforestation-what-you-need-to-know" target="_blank" rel="noopener">other land uses</a>, like agricultural expansion.   
Tackling deforestation helps us to tackle our planet&#8217;s biggest problems: the climate crisis and the biodiversity crisis. Deforestation is the leading cause of biodiversity loss, while the associated carbon emissions of land-use change are thought to be <a href="https://drawdown.org/solutions/forest-protection" target="_blank" rel="noopener">10-15% of the world&#8217;s total</a> emissions – more than the entire global transport sector.

Avoiding deforestation is part of the solution

Put simply, we can combat deforestation just by planting more trees. The FAO 2020 <a href="http://www.fao.org/3/ca8642en/CA8642EN.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">State of the World’s Forest Report</a> says that we need large-scale reforestation to meet the <a href="https://sdgs.un.org/goals" target="_blank" rel="noopener">UN Sustainable Development Goals</a> and stop –and reverse– biodiversity loss. Through forest restoration can we restore habitats and ecosystems, and create jobs and generate income for local communities. Reforestation is an effective nature-based solution to climate change, but making sure areas of existing forest stay in tact is just as important.

Over <a href="http://www.fao.org/3/ca8642en/CA8642EN.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a third (34%)</a> of the world&#8217;s forests are primary forests. These are naturally generated forests of native tree species where there are no clearly visible indications of human activity. Primary forests are invaluable for their biodiversity, carbon storage and other benefits to ecosystems.
Comparing primary forests with both secondary (those established through natural expansion and around 14–16 years old) and planted forests, <a href="https://www.pnas.org/content/104/47/18555" target="_blank" rel="noopener">one study of species richness</a> found that 25% of the species were unique to primary forests, with almost 60% only present in primary forests. If we allow the destruction of primary forests to continue, we risk losing species that we can never get back.

Forest protection projects and carbon storage

Primary forests, or old-growth or virgin forests, are also a priority for valuable carbon storage. The likes of the Amazon, Congo and Great Bear Rainforest have mature canopy trees and complex understories, containing <a href="https://www.drawdown.org/solutions/forest-protection/technical-summary#:~:text=Project%20Drawdown%20defines%20forest%20protection,replaces%20non%2Dprotected%20forest%20land.&amp;text=They%20represent%20massive%20storehouses%20of%20carbon%20in%20soils%20and%20biomass." target="_blank" rel="noopener">an estimated 300 billion tonnes of carbon</a>. 
According to Project Drawdown, forest protection has the potential to avoid the emission of <a href="https://www.drawdown.org/solutions/forest-protection/technical-summary#:~:text=Project%20Drawdown%20defines%20forest%20protection,replaces%20non%2Dprotected%20forest%20land.&amp;text=They%20represent%20massive%20storehouses%20of%20carbon%20in%20soils%20and%20biomass." target="_blank" rel="noopener">5.52 to 8.75 gigatons of CO2e </a>between 2020 and 2050, while <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-019-0485-x" target="_blank" rel="noopener">another recent study</a> shows that avoided deforestation offers between 7.2 and 9.6 times the potential for low-cost climate mitigation as reforestation. 
Of course, forest restoration is still vital, but prevention is better than cure. As well as planting new trees, we should also protect existing forests because they store more carbon, and contain plants and animals that we may never see in planted or restored forests. That&#8217;s why, at Ecologi, we do both!

Forest protection projects Ecologi has supported

These projects are part of the Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (<a href="https://www.un-redd.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">REDD+</a>) scheme. They place an area of forest under protection through long-term forest management. These are some of the forest protection programmes Ecologi has supported most recently:

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<h3>1. Preserving prime Brazilian rainforests</h3>
This project is protecting and restoring 186,219 hectares of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. This area of the rainforest hosts eight endangered mammal species, and numerous endangered bird and plant species. The project will prevent the deforestation of 30,0006 hectares over its 30 years project lifetime, which equates to 14,507,808 tCO2e in emissions reductions. 
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<h3>2. Protecting the Amazon Rainforest from deforestation in Brazil</h3>
Ecologi has supported a fantastic project protecting 496,988 hectares of the Brazilian rainforest, rich in biodiversity and containing several species of extreme ecological and social importance. Six critically endangered or threatened species will benefit from the reduction of threats as a result of the project activities. For the 30-year phase of the project, an estimated 15,491,971 tonnes of CO2e will be saved from entering the atmosphere.
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<h3>3. Protecting and restoring the Pacific Coast of Columbia</h3>
This avoided deforestation project based on the Pacific coast of Columbia protects 83,452 hectares of land containing over 831 bird species, 195 amphibians, 167 mammals, 210 reptiles and 5124 plant species. Illegal timber extraction has historically been an important source of income within this project zone, and the project aims to relieve the pressure on the forests by supporting the development of sustainable economic and livelihood alternatives. 
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Sustainable Development Goals supported:  Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 2: Zero Hunger, Goal 4: Quality Education, Goal 5: Gender Equality, Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth and Goal 13: Climate Action.</li>
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<h3>4. Preserving the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor in Guatemala</h3>
This project sets out to protect and restore 54,157 hectares of land in the Guatemalan section of the Mesoamerican biological corridor by saving the existing areas of forest, establishing areas of reforestation, reducing illegal logging and providing alternative revenue streams from forest production, like sustainable agroforestry. 
Additionally, this project offers community objectives, like providing full access to reproductive health information and care for local women, and ensuring that a sufficient household income for local people is provided from sustainable practices.
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<h3>5. Peruvian protection of the Amazon</h3>
We have supported this project which is protecting 98,932 hectares of the Amazonian rainforest in the Madre de Dios region of Peru. This project secures the long-term conservation and sustainable management of the forest, promotes a healthy wildlife habitat, and will prevent 659,793 tonnes of CO2e from entering the atmosphere each year. 
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Emissions avoided by Ecologi through this project: 4450 tCO2e </li>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="2">Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing, </li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="2">Goal 4: Quality Education, </li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="2">Goal 5: Gender Equality, </li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="2">Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, </li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="2">Goal 9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure, </li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="2">Goal 10, Reduced inequalities, </li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="2">Goal 11: sustainable cities and communities, </li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="2">Goal 12: responsible consumption and production, </li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="2">Goal 13: Climate Action, </li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="2">Goal 15: Life on Land, </li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="2">Goal 16: Peace justice and strong institutions; </li>
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The co-benefits of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)

Ecologi only supports and funds carbon offsetting projects which support SDG 13 – Climate Action. However, many of the projects we support – especially those avoiding deforestation – offer SDG co-benefits. This means that they provide a verified and well-documented benefit to other goals in addition to Climate Action. To find out more about our SDG co-benefits, have a look at our <a href="https://ecologi.com/articles/updates/ecologi-impact-report-2020" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2020 climate impact report.</a>

Summary: Why forest protection projects are important

Protecting existing rainforests is a vital strategy to tackling the climate and biodiversity crisis. Forests contain vast amounts of biodiversity and store masses of carbon. That&#8217;s why Ecologi plants thousands of trees AND funds forest protection projects through carbon credits, benefiting both wildlife and the community. 
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Why putting yourself first is the best way to regenerate the environment around you

1. Learn to practice self-care

2. Follow your curiosity

3. Look at your information ecology

4. Stay true to yourself

5. Seek out indigenous knowledge

6. Learn to listen

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