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Funds
raised by our 2008 Save the North Pole campaign are supportong projects in
our local town of Matlock and in Scotland and Ghana.
Transition
Matlock
Little Green Space is actively supporting Transition
Matlock - an exciting initiative in our local town in Derbyshire. It
involves people from across the community, joining forces to tackle
climate change and peak oil (reduced oil supplies).
Planning
and acting now to reduce carbon emissions and to adapt to reduced oil
supplies will help communities cope with climate change and peak oil. And
make them more pleasant, green and community-orientated places to live.
Village Aid
We
are supporting Village Aid’s work with Simli AiD www.simliaid.org
in northern Ghana.
Agriculture is people’s main livelihood
in this impoverished region. But housing, cooking, and timber exports have
led to a significant reduction in local trees – adding to problems
caused by desertification and lack of soil fertility, forcing farmers to
use chemical fertilizers to obtain decent yields.
Simli AiD has trained 60 advisors who
provide farmers with information and training on sustainable practices
like composting, organic farming, improving soil fertility and agro
forestry – benefiting the environment and people’s livelihoods.
Tree seed nurseries and plantations have been established and seedlings
distributed to communities. This also provides income as fruit from mango,
papaya and cashew trees can be sold at market. Local communities are
encouraged to plant more trees, and the importance of forests is promoted
through discussions and training.
Trees for
Life
We have established a special Save the North Pole grove of trees in
Scotland’s
Caledonian
Forest
as part of the forest restoration work being carried out by Trees for
Life.
This award-winning
conservation charity is working to restore the
Caledonian
Forest
in the Scottish
Highlands west of
Inverness
. This forest once
covered much of the
Highlands, with native pinewoods
in a wild landscape of mountains, lochs and rivers. Today only one per
cent of the original forest survives.
Trees for Life aims to plant 250,000 new native trees during 2008 and 2009
as part of the United Nations’ Billion Trees Campaign – a global push
to address climate change by encouraging people and businesses to plant
seven billion trees worldwide.
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