The Plant-for-the-Planet Foundation, or the previously existing Plant-for-the-Planet student initiative, has financed the planting of a total of 22.9 million trees since its inception in 2007 through Dec. 31, 2020, of which 15.1 million trees have already been planted and the other 7.8 million trees will be planted in 2021 and 2022. Of these 15.1 million trees, 6.2 million have been planted by the employees of the non-profit Plant-for-the-Planet A.C. on its own land, near the town of Constitución in the state of Campeche, and 8.9 million more trees have been planted mostly by small farmers in Mexico and in many other parts of the world on their own land.
Since the launch of the platform www.plant-for-the-planet.org, visitors have been able to independently choose among 170 planting and renaturation projects and have donated to other organizations for an additional 5.9 million trees. Because each organization plants at different times of the year, we developed the TreeMapper.App to automatically notify donors: “The 10 trees you donated to us on December 24, 2020, were planted today on August 26, 2021, in the X/Y coordinates.”
In the first 200 days of 2021, donors have already donated 14.2 million more trees through the www.plant-for-the-planet.org platform. This gives hope. If it took us 14 years to plant 18.8 million trees, we now can do 14.2 million trees in 200 days.
