{"id":10487,"date":"2021-11-02T11:44:30","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T11:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.answerconnect.com\/blog\/?p=10487"},"modified":"2023-10-27T08:48:43","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T08:48:43","slug":"one-million-trees-giving-back-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.answerconnect.com\/blog\/news\/one-million-trees-giving-back-program\/","title":{"rendered":"AnswerConnect Plants Over One Million Trees Through Giving Back Program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last week we announced<\/a> that AnswerConnect passed our \u201cone-million-mark\u201d and planted 1,020,964 trees, through our 1 Tree 1 Planet<\/a> giving back program.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AnswerConnect\u2019s values to give back to our Planet<\/strong> aligns with the values of our global leaders who gather this week in Glasgow, for the Cop26 Summit<\/a>, to discuss actions towards climate change. AnswerConnect is giving back to the world, one tree at a time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our Giving Back Program: 1 Tree 1 Planet <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Every month, with our NGO partner Trees for the Future<\/a> (TREES), we plant a tree for each of our customers and employees as part of our 1 Tree 1 Planet giving back program. TREES has been in operation for more than 30 years and is giving back to the world by working with thousands of farming families, across nine countries, to help them grow a variety of fruits and vegetables. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

These farmers gain income and access to food from the trees they have planted, and each tree they plant will help our community at a local and global scale. Trees for the Future released their 2021 Impact Report<\/a> which states that by working with partners like AnswerConnect, TREES has planted over 225.1 million trees, restored 58,605 acres of forest, and these trees will sequester roughly four and a half million metric tons of CO2<\/sub>. Although there are many ways of giving back to society, we found tree planting had many benefits for our Planet<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Paramount To Our Planet\u2019s Health: Trees<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Trees are the lungs of our planet and that\u2019s why we believe planting trees is the best way to give back to our Planet.<\/strong> However, over 15 billion trees<\/a> are cut down each year and up to 28,000 species<\/a> could go extinct in the next quarter-century due to deforestation. We must act fast to protect our trees because:<\/p>\n\n\n\n