You can help by donating to the cause. Currently we do not send volunteers to the field due to liability and insurance issues however we do collaborate on studies and other environmental and social projects. If you have a project you think would fit with our program or are interested in studying our field data, you can send us a brief description and we'll get back to you to discuss it.

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There are many ways that local communities participating in the Trees4Trees Program are benefited. Our objective is to help the environment by making it economically advantageous to the people who are part of the program. Here are a few of the ways that they gain from participating:

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No. The families that own the land that the trees are planted on are given the trees with no obligation to sell them to Trees4Trees™ or any other organization related to the planting. Trees4Trees™ does however offer a channel to the market for the trees which helps ensure that the grower will receive fair market prices for their timber when the trees reach their maturity. But it is the grower's sole discretion to decide who to sell their trees to.

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Trees4Trees™ funds its operations through several sources:

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Trees4Trees™ grants ownership of the trees to the land owner where the trees are planted. The grower must provide proof of ownership of the land and sign a memorandum of understanding agreeing to attend Trees4Trees™ education program and provide proper care for the trees prior to receiving the seedlings. After that, the trees are owned free and clear by the land owner with no obligation to sell or otherwise compensate anyone in connection with the bequest.

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Trees4Trees™ is a program conducted by a not for profit foundation established in Indonesia called Yayasan Bumi Hijau Lestari (Foundation for Sustainable Green Earth). As such the organization is a publicly registered foundation, not owned by anyone.

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The Trees4Trees Program is not a wood certification scheme. We go one better than that, we directly replant the trees that were harvested to make a product. The producer of the product that bears our logo has donated funds to Trees4Trees™ to plant the number of trees required to replace the wood they used in making the product. The WIN number and its link to a location on Google maps where the trees are planted are your proof that the manufacturer acted in a responsible way by replenishing the renewable resource that they used in your product.

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