More Trees Planted in 2021

Planting trees is the biggest and cheapest way to tackle the climate crisis. Trees store pollutants such as carbon and release oxygen into the atmosphere. Scientists say the affects trees have is massively significant - they can negate the emissions that are pumped into the air by human activities.

Don Whitley Scientific has again renewed its commitment to reducing carbon emissions by signing up for another year with Oblong Trees. The donation enables Oblong to continue to plant trees all over the world with the target of planting over 240 trees for each employee over a 10-year period.

Here's some of the activity carried out in 2021:

February	Esperance, WA, Australia	300 trees
May	Mount Kenya Reforestation & surrounding farms	6000 trees
June	Phillip Island, Australia	400 trees
October	Tanjung Puting National Park, Indonesia	4500 trees
	Project to boost the salmon population and, in turn, clean rivers and protect orca, USA	2000 trees
November	Priors Hardwick, Warwickshire, UK	343 trees
December	Somers Koala Habitat, Australia	800 trees
	Corridor of trees in Warwickshire, UK	245 trees
	Site near M40, UK	435 trees

According to the Committee on Climate Change, we need between 1.5 billion more trees to become carbon neutral. There are 35 million people employed within the UK so if each business planted 240 trees per employee, then we would have planted over 8 billion more trees.

DWS’s support of this scheme means that we are making our contribution to this amazing scheme, helping to protect wildlife by recreating lost habitats and ensuring there are enough trees planted for each of us to make  a positive impact on climate change.