Trees For Trunks | The Elephant Sanctuary of Tennessee
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The Elephant Sanctuary is a refuge for endangered African and Asian elephants located in Tennessee. On average, each elephant consumes over 150 pounds of food per day, including plant material, grains, vegetables, and fruits. 20-30 pounds of food comes from fresh produce alone. 14 Elephants currently make this sanctuary their home. As you can imagine, the cost to feed every elephant is quite high!
SoundForest.org has created a project to lift some of the financial burden from the sanctuary. We will also help them become more eco-friendly by planting fruit trees on site eliminating the use of fuel to transport food.
An apple tree can produce between 100 - 210 pounds of food every year.
Pear trees can produce between 170 - 220 pounds a year.
Apple, pear, fig, plum, and other varieties of fruit trees are currently being planted by SoundForest.org on the 2,700 acres that make up the Elephant Sanctuary and we need your help!
A single fruit tree can be planted with your donation of only $35 dollars!
As your tree grows over the next 25 years it can produce up to 5,000 lbs of food.
Plant a tree in your name or plant one for a friend!
We'll send you photos of your tree and update you as it grows.
Your donation will help us plant trees, reduce the use of fuel, and provide food for these gentle giants!
click here to plant a tree and help feed the elephants.
You can help! Donate Now
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SoundEnergy - Energy Saving Trees
Start saving 10% on your summer energy bill! Planting a single tree to shade your air conditioner can help start saving you money immediately. And each year that the tree grows the more money you will save. AC units can operate 10% more efficiantly when shaded from the sun.
Start saving on your winter energy bill. Plant evergreen trees and shrubs around your home. Evergreens can insulate your home from cold winter winds that suck warmth from you home and raise your heating bill.
Contact SoundForest.org today to find out more about saving energy. 615.915.0307
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Community Canopy - Help Plant Trees in Your Neighborhood
Want to help the planet? Help Plant it! Start at your home and then branch out and help your surrounding community. SouncForest.org can help neighborhood organizations plant trees. We offer consulting and present ideas to communities on how to establish a plan for the future growth of trees. We focus on short term goals and long term strategies in order to increase tree canopies and sustain health Sound Neighborhoods!
Email soundforest.org today to find out how to get your neighborhood involved in the SoundForest.org SoundCanopy Program. info@soundforest.org
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SoundSchools - Eco-Programs to help students and clubs
Want to help the planet? Help Plant it! Get your school involved in SoundForest.org's Sound School Program! SoundForest.org can work with your school to create clubs or organize events to help your school become eco-friendly. The Sound School Program has a focus on planting small nurseries that will give saplings a chance to grow. As the saplings mature they become large enough to be planted at homes or even on school property. Your Sound Club can even have a tree sale to raise money to re-invest in future projects. This is a fun way to get your school involved in helping your school, your neighborhood, and your Planet!
Email soundforest.org today to find out how to get your school involved in the SoundForest.org SoundSchool Program.info@soundforest.org
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Trees for Bees - Help Honey Bees!
Honey Bee Colonies are struggling! How big is this problem? Only 3-5% of the lower 48 states remains undisturbed habitat for plants and animals. The rest has been paved, farmed, taken over by noxious foreign weeds like kudzu and Japanese honeysuckle, or transformed into suburban gardens dominated by exotic shrubs and vast lawns of non-native grasses. Suburban lawns cover about 62,000 square miles of this country, an area more than the entire state of Georgia. All devoted to alien grasses. Worse, 43,000 square miles of blacktop has been spread over the landscape, equal to the entire state of Tennessee. We have eliminated 95-97% of the native vegetation of the American landscape, we continue to lose our native flora and fauna over time. Bees that traditionally polinate our farm crops can not recognize the nectar of many of the exotic flowers and plants that now cover the United States. Extinction adjusts the number of species to the land area that remains. Learn more by reading Dr. Doug Tallamy author of Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife.
Honey bees are in decline. Over the last 15-20 years loss of native habitat has decimated and weakened the feral and managed population. Growers, up until the mid-1980s, rarely had to think about pollination of their crops because there was a large feral population of honey bees. These wild populations lived in hollow trees, or cavities in structures and provided free pollination for small acreages. Pollination is in decline while crops needing pollination are increasing.
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Rainforest Recovery Fundraising Campaign | Philippines
SoundForest.org is currently raising money to help fund multiple Rainforest tree planting projects. It is our goal to replant and protect areas that have been devastated by natural disasters such as typhoons or destroyed from overuse and mismanagement.
We are asking for your support to help us revitalize and save these delicate Rainforests that are so important to the health of the Earth. SoundForest.org is working to deliver education programs, restore deforested areas, and repair precious Rainforest. By working with multiple levels of the government and local communities in the Philippines we can reverse the destruction to the forest and make the Philippines a more sustainable land in turn helping our entire Planet.
Your donation will help make a positive impact on the environment by replanting, protecting, and preserving areas containing some of the densest Rainforest on our Planet!
You can help! Donate Now
