Quite often, we waste our earnings on apparently unimportant ostentatious items. If a small fraction of our money could be spent on making our planet greener and that too simply by a click of the mouse, it would do a great service in saving humankind from any future natural disaster. The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has launched a plant-a-tree campaign that would require you to adopt a plant that would be planted in the Sebangau National Park in Borneo, Indonesia. At the website mybabytree.org, you could donate $5.50 and choose the number of trees with your name tagged on them that you would like to be planted. In return, you will receive a KML file with the location of your tree that you could track with Google Earth.
Rainforests are important for the preservation of the ecosystem of our planet. In 1950, about 15 percent of land was covered by rainforest and today we have lost over half of them. Unbelievably, globally 200,000 acres of rainforests are burned every day. Massive deforestation gives rise to air and water pollution, soil erosion, zoonotic diseases and loss of biodiversity. Fewer rainforests means less oxygen, less rainfall and climate change. The efforts of WWF could only succeed if global citizens overwhelmingly take part in their noble effort.
Source: OhGizmo
