Groups in Action:
Roots & Shoots is an action-oriented program. If your group has studied, conserved, protected, celebrated or raised awareness about forests, we want to hear about it!
A key part of Roots & Shoots is our online Project Database, which allows groups from around the world to share their stories and inspire others. Upload your project report today and you could be featured here.
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How to Get Started
- Visit Get Informed to learn more about the issues facing forests and their importance to us
- Learn what Roots & Shoots members around the world are doing to protect and restore forests.
- Visit Get to Work for ideas for your next forest-themed project.
- Complete your project for forests and use our 6 Degrees to Gombe Model to connect your work to Africa
6 Degrees to Gombe (Contest Closed):
Groups from all over Canada....
Completed projects that took action on forest related issues
Connected the impacts to chimpanzees in Gombe
And have WON a walk in the woods with Jane Goodall!
Come back soon to check out the projects of our winning group and runners-up!
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Youth Action Workshop: Speak for the Trees
Our workshops are a great way to learn how you can take action and become a forest steward. They follow the Roots & Shoots model of gaining knowledge and compassion, and then taking action! Learn more.
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Vancouver :
Our second Speak for the Trees workshop took place on May 28th, 2010 in Vancouver. Roots & Shoots members learnt about forest issues in Canada and around the world, and took action by clearing invasive species and planting cedar saplings in Renfrew Ravine. Read all the details! Click here to read about Evergreen Common Grounds' blogpost about this event.
Toronto:
Our first Speak for the Trees workshop took place on April 8, 2010 in Toronto. Dedicated Roots & Shoots members came out for a full day of learning about important global forest issues, and then took action (in the rain!) to become better forest stewards. Read all the details!
The Million Tree Project China Roots & Shoots Shanghai's Million Tree Project, which began in 2007, aims to raise community awareness of the Earth's precious environment while focusing on steps individuals can take to lessen their negative impact on the natural world. The project gives individuals and organizations an opportunity to fight global warming by planting oxygen-producing trees in Inner Mongolia, China. It also encompasses true capacity building as the local population is intimately involved with, and benefits from, every step of planting, maintaining and monitoring the trees. |
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The Million Tree Project is designed to improve both ecological and humanitarian conditions of Kulun Qi, Tongliao municipality, lnner Mongolia. This project site was chosen because the area suffers severely from desertification and its consequential sandstorms. These sandstorms strike Inner Mongolia and its surrounding areas each spring, destroying local homes and forcing many people to flee their native land.
Roots & Shoots Shanghai aims to plant one million trees in the Inner Mongolian desert by 2014. They have a long-term Memorandum of Understanding in place with the Forestry Bureau of Kunlun Qi to reach this goal, and have secured land for one million trees (planting an average of 1500 trees per hectare). As of April 2009, they have planted 200,000 trees.
Help Roots & Shoots Shanghai reach their million tree target and donate some trees! You can even calculate your air flight carbon footprint and offset it by donating the appropriate amount of trees!
ReBirth the Earth Trees for Tomorrow Roots & Shoots US' ReBirth the Earth 2008 campaign will help Roots & Shoots members in Tanzania start five new tree nurseries, while encouraging groups in the United States and other countries to take action by planting native trees in their own communities. Groups in the United States saught sponsorships for every tree they planted. This sponsorship money was then used to support the establishment of Roots & Shoots tree nurseries in Tanzania and other tree planting efforts in the United States. |
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Their goal was to raise at least $10,000 (USD), which would establish long-term tree nurseries in the five regions of Tanzania. They also aimed to plant at least 3,000 trees in North America.
Through the hardwork and dedication of Roots & Shoots members and supporters around the globe, the ReBirth The Earth Trees for Tomorrow Campaign has planted more than 3,000 trees and raised over $10,000 to support tree nurseries in Tanzania. This success can only be attributed to the entirely youth-initiated, youth-led and youth-driven support of the Roots & Shoots network! Great work everyone!
