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Tree-planting campaign raises $8 million in five days

Project Team Trees seeks to plant 20 million trees by 2020

Fermin Koop by Fermin Koop
October 31, 2019
in Environment, Environmental Issues, News, Science

In just five days, more than $8 million have been raised by a global tree-planting campaign, with the participation of US entrepreneur Elon Musk and YouTuber Jeffree Start among many others.

The project has a website through which donations can be made

The project called “Team Trees” seeks to plant 20 million trees around the globe by 2020, with each $1 donation "planting" one tree. The donations go to the Arbor Day Foundation, a US organisation dedicated to planting trees.

It all started in May, when a YouTuber called Jimmy Donaldson, known online as "Mr Beast," asked what he should do to celebrate his 20 millionth subscriber. One of his fans responded urging him to plant 20 million trees to represent each of his subscribers.

Ok, sounds legit, will donate 1M trees

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 29, 2019

Since then, the YouTuber has collaborated with other content creators and the Arbor Day Foundation to create the #TeamTrees campaign. The idea is simple - for each $1 donation, the Arbor Day Foundation will plant one tree. The trees will reportedly be planted on every continent except Antarctica.

Planting trees across the world is a cheap and easy solution to reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) levels, which is seen as a major factor in climate change. As trees grow, they absorb and store CO2 from the atmosphere, and emit oxygen.

The Arbor Day Foundation says over their lifespan, 100 million trees could absorb eight million tons of carbon - the equivalent of taking more than six million cars off the road for a year.

"The average person can't afford $150,000 or a million, but we've been getting spikes of between 5 and 20 trees every time a large donation comes in and every tree matters, every single donor is important," Arbor Day Foundation spokesman Danny Cohn told CNN.

Over the past five days, the campaign has gained significant attention online. Elon Musk, co-founder and CEO at Tesla, donated $1m to the project. He also changed his Twitter handle to "Treelon." The name of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has also appeared on the campaign website's "most trees" leader board, pledging to plant 150,000 trees.

Elon Musk has taken the throne ?

Go donate! https://t.co/TGq0wXQnDY pic.twitter.com/rFujqhBJnq

— MrBeast (@MrBeastYT) October 30, 2019

At the same time, Beauty YouTuber Jeffree Star, who has over 16.4m subscribers, also donated $50,000 to the campaign. YouTube has promised to match the next million dollars of donations.

In a video announcing the launch of the project "Mr Beast" said: "I personally haven't always been the most environmentally friendly. We only have one Earth, and it's important we take care of it. People just keep making fun of our generation for 'retweet activism' and not actually doing something.”

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