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Whoops, sorry, I just kinda figured it was self-evident that people here might like a search engine that plants trees. That's basically it. If that doesn't fit this community I can totally delete the post.
Planting trees doesn't save forests! The trees planted are often monocultures and serve as a means for companies to buy carbon credits, allowing them to pollute at will 💀
I am linking a video explaining why plantations are not a good substitute for actual forests, that became popular on Reddit a month or two ago.
A perfectly valid concern! As far as I can tell, Ecosia only works with projects that actually improve things.
https://blog.ecosia.org/tag/where-does-ecosia-plant-trees/?_sp=c00c1905-82ee-49a9-a802-904ebfaef758
E.G.
In Thailand, we are partnering with the Prince of Songkhla University and Einhorn to support rubber farmers who are interested in transforming their monocultures into sustainable agroforestry systems.
Beautiful! Glad I stand corrected
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