Did you know that you are now helping me make a positive environmental impact?... We are planting trees and cleaning seas!
For every £15 you spend on my website sjbfineart.com a tree is planted with the Eden Reforestation Project. Now, in addition to the tree planting, each £15 purchase will also help protect precious marine life by removing 5 plastic bottles from the ocean.
So the more you spend on artwork the more you help to support the environment. How's that for a 'WIN/WIN' ?!
How your purchase helps 🌍
NEW! - Removing ocean bound plastic 🪸🐠
I now contribute an amount from each sale towards plastic removal within 50 km of the ocean or ocean bound waterway. This reduces plastic pollution and the plastic collected by the community is exchanged for social and financial benefits helping alleviate poverty.
Plastic pollution is reduced in collaboration with GoodAPI and Plastic Bank.
Planting Trees 🌱🌳
An amount from each sale also goes towards tree planting because reforestation efforts revive natural habitats, improve coral reef health, support local livelihoods and aid in the fight against climate change by extracting CO2 from the air.
The trees we plant with Eden Reforestation Projects support wild life diversity, improve coastlines, provided meaningful wages to indigenous populations and grow Mangrove trees which are an incredible carbon sink.
Trees are planted by Eden Reforestation Projects in partnership with GoodAPI
The impact of planting Mangrove trees
Mangroves are unique ecosystems found throughout a wide range in the tropics and occupying the intertidal areas of more than 120 countries. Mangroves, and coastal wetlands in general, are globally important for the many services they provide to humans and the planet. These services include protection against storm surges, sheltering nurseries for fish and other marine life, providing building materials, firewood, and providing critically important services to stabilising the global climate as an important store of carbon.
An incredible carbon sink
With the rapid increase in greenhouse gas emissions over the last century, the need for enduring carbon sinks has grown. The latest models suggest that to remain within “acceptable” global temperature increase, it is no longer enough to simply reduce emissions, and protect existing forests, but rather that we need to rapidly increase the ability to sequester carbon. Globally, mangrove systems are estimated to hold an astounding 20 petagrams of carbon. For a biome representing less than 5% of the world’s terrestrial area, this makes mangroves one of the most important carbon stocks, even more than many rainforests like the Amazon. Equally, as a relatively fast-growing group of species, mangroves sequester carbon at a very fast rate.
Help support wildlife and diversity
As forests are destroyed, wildlife species lose their natural habitat, forcing them to relocate, limiting their ability to survive. Madagascar is one of the world’s greatest conservation priorities, with over 200 species of mammals, 100 species of lemurs, 300 species of birds, and almost 300 species of amphibians. Around ninety percent of all wildlife in Madagascar is endemic. Our work with Eden protects these wildlife species in Madagascar by restoring their natural habitats.
Here is what we've already managed to achieve. Let's see how much impact we can make this year!
I'll update these figures as more trees are planted and more plastics are removed!
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