The Earth is What We Have in Common

The world’s forests, both temperate and tropical, are under enormous pressures from disease (often as a result of air pollution, notably from acid rain), felling for timber needs, clearing for agriculture, or loss under reservoirs through the damming of rivers.

The practical importance of the preservation of our forests is augmented by their relations to climate, soil & streams.

The main causes of deforestation are poverty (extension of subsistence farming), overpopulation and ignorance. Bongo Foundation is committed to Sustainable forestry practices involve the re-planting at least as many, if not more, trees than are removed by logging, which offsets at least some of the logging losses.

• Communal Tree Planting Exercises
• Sustainable forestry practices