What if? You could help grow a forest. Well you can by a simple upvote.
Before I continue I must say thank you to all of you who support the Steem Forest Initiative with your upvotes. There are sooooo many to name, but you know who you are and thank you so much for making this happen.
A big shout out this week has to also go to the following for their very generous contributions:
I have recently taken to writing posts that will enable reforestation in Northern Peru. Upvoted posts plant trees! Today we planted three Neem tree saplings and all thanks to Steem!
In the first step of addressing the issue of local deforestation. In partnership with Steem. I have started to plant native tree saplings around where I live. I have been able to do this with your simple upvotes. Simple.
If you liked this video, please also resteem to all your friends and spread the word.
We have raised a total so far of:
Steem- 160
SBD- 131.476
Outcomes to date:
33 native trees planted and 3 Neem trees.
One local has so far joined the tree planting part of this project.
480 Peru Soles donated to EcoSwell not for profit: forwarded to their reforestation program.
90.195 SBD and 131 Steem held in savings until price goes up and helps for accounting (check my wallet)
Creation of carbon offset directly derived for all Steem activities (takes a lot of energy to propel Steem).
Building a socio-enviromental aware community platform on Steemit.
I donate 100% of the SBD earned on the reforestation posts (like this one) to the Steem forest project fund in partnership with Ecoswell. This not for profit has a reforestation program in which they have small garden nurseries in the village. I get lots of tree saplings to plant myself from this not for profit. This on behalf of all you upvoters. If there is any change to this format, as they might as this grows, I will inform everyone with a blog post on Steemit.
@pit-bullion You are good EGG even on Easter. Way to go Showing all of STEEMIT and the entire World that Big Things can happen you just have to take the FIRST STEP !! Much Love my Brother..........
Resteemed to get you some more exposure. I love the attention to detail you put into everything, including ensuring the trees you plant will improve the environment instead of cause it harm. Your commitment to cut it down yourself if a problem ever arises is pretty cool. :)
Bru this is really appreciated and it is amazing to see how many people are helping out. Quite incredible really. I have worked in parks for years (Cape Verde, Mali, Mozambique and Yemen) and these little details can have huge consequences..even if initially well intentioned. The tree seems to have other purposes as produces a natural insecticide. Plus it grows well in places like here. I did quite a bit of research on the subject for Neem, but I couldn't see any issues. I will keep a watch though. The steem forest will be all native plants though.
very well intention @intrepidsurfer
I restored your post to my blog, hopefully your sincere intention of success and smoothly
greetings from aceh , indonesia
Love this. So much deforestation going on! It is so sad to see. Here in Cambodia, the illegal deforestation is even controlled by the army! Not so long ago trucks were stopped at the Cambodia-Vietnam border with illegal wood and it was all trucks from the army who supposedly should stop these practices!
I am stoked you like that we are creating the steem forest. Sad to hear about where you are based, but I assure you it happens in more places than you think. It can get quite complicated dependent on perspective.
Hey @intrepidsurfer! Started following you since you met up with Dan as we follow @world-travel-pro, but didn't know you were doing this initiative. This is a great project and we will continue to back it up with an upvote on your posts going forward! It's only a matter of time before you reach your goal! :)
Hey guys of @travelling-two nice to see you here. Dan is was a hoot when he was around here. Thank you so so much for your support. We appreciate it loads. Oh yes the goal will be reached, then we make the steem forest bigger.
That's great to hear and we'll be supporting you by your side (virtually) to ensure this Steem Forest brings host to a new ecosystem :) full of life and hope!
Great initiative, @intrepidsurfer! Will any non-profits send you trees from that area? I know the Arbor Day foundation will send free trees, but it might only be good in the US. Keep up the great work!
hello @randomness and thank you for your support. We are in partnership with a local not for profit. They have access to the tree saplings. I just need to organize and get a load more.
Almost 50 SBD and counting raised from my Raffel to support your cause my man 👍
@pit-bullion You are good EGG even on Easter. Way to go Showing all of STEEMIT and the entire World that Big Things can happen you just have to take the FIRST STEP !! Much Love my Brother..........
true.
You are a legend @pit-bullion
Resteemed to get you some more exposure. I love the attention to detail you put into everything, including ensuring the trees you plant will improve the environment instead of cause it harm. Your commitment to cut it down yourself if a problem ever arises is pretty cool. :)
Bru this is really appreciated and it is amazing to see how many people are helping out. Quite incredible really. I have worked in parks for years (Cape Verde, Mali, Mozambique and Yemen) and these little details can have huge consequences..even if initially well intentioned. The tree seems to have other purposes as produces a natural insecticide. Plus it grows well in places like here. I did quite a bit of research on the subject for Neem, but I couldn't see any issues. I will keep a watch though. The steem forest will be all native plants though.
very well intention @intrepidsurfer
I restored your post to my blog, hopefully your sincere intention of success and smoothly
greetings from aceh , indonesia
Perfect! 100% upvote and a big resteem on it!
thank you for your ongoing support and we really appreciate it.
Love this. So much deforestation going on! It is so sad to see. Here in Cambodia, the illegal deforestation is even controlled by the army! Not so long ago trucks were stopped at the Cambodia-Vietnam border with illegal wood and it was all trucks from the army who supposedly should stop these practices!
I am stoked you like that we are creating the steem forest. Sad to hear about where you are based, but I assure you it happens in more places than you think. It can get quite complicated dependent on perspective.
Planting trees is always something to get excited about!
true :)
Hey @intrepidsurfer! Started following you since you met up with Dan as we follow @world-travel-pro, but didn't know you were doing this initiative. This is a great project and we will continue to back it up with an upvote on your posts going forward! It's only a matter of time before you reach your goal! :)
Hey guys of @travelling-two nice to see you here. Dan is was a hoot when he was around here. Thank you so so much for your support. We appreciate it loads. Oh yes the goal will be reached, then we make the steem forest bigger.
That's great to hear and we'll be supporting you by your side (virtually) to ensure this Steem Forest brings host to a new ecosystem :) full of life and hope!
I will initiate it as of next week. Loads of videos about the process on the way :)
Cool we'll look out of those videos and again great work on your part! :)
thank you :) I got a load more tree saplings today, so loads more on the way.
good idea my friend!!! upvote for your post sorry for the small amount
Any upvote is equal for me, we are all doing our part to help and I thank you for that @erickyoussif
Very honorable. Thank you so much. We need trees!! Loving the thing you are doing. Great work @intrepidsurfer
Joy
thank you for your kind words @sweetjoy it with you that we can make this possible.
Looks like a very good cause, my friend. Steemit for good!
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thank you @evernoticethat
Great initiative, @intrepidsurfer! Will any non-profits send you trees from that area? I know the Arbor Day foundation will send free trees, but it might only be good in the US. Keep up the great work!
hello @randomness and thank you for your support. We are in partnership with a local not for profit. They have access to the tree saplings. I just need to organize and get a load more.
Best of luck in your efforts. Combating deforestation is a challenging, but worthy mission.
thank you for being part of this worthy mission.