How 50 million trees have changed the world

Back in 2014, we planted one tree per minute in Burkina Faso. Today, we’re planting a new tree every second across 21 reforestation projects across the planet. And thanks to you, we’ve now planted 50 million trees in total.

These trees have absorbed 2.5 million tonnes of toxic CO2 from our atmosphere. But they are doing so much more. They are creating a habitat for chimpanzees in Uganda. In the Sahel region of Burkina Faso, they stop the desert from moving south. They are restoring water supplies and soil fertility in Peru. And they are providing more dependable, diverse and plentiful harvests to smallholder farmers around the world.

That’s why 50 million trees matter. Thank you for joining us on this journey. We’re just getting started.

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Editing & post-production by Sina Samavati (IG: @sinasamavati)
Motion graphics & animation by Sina Samavati
Writing by Joshi Gottlieb and Shane Thomas McMillan
Cinematography by Shane Thomas McMillan and agency footage
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[Ecosia]

Wow, thank you everyone for your incredible support!! We feel emotional reading all these comments, and wish we could reply to every single one. On to the next leg of our journey, we still have many trees to plant! Thank you for being with us.

[keishae]

pls put ads so we can watch them. and use the money to plant more trees

[danielspears]

Google has no idea what's about to hit them

[COVID--eumd]

Profit company: *pollutes environment*
Ecosia: I'm bout to end this man's whole career.

[ツシ-th]

Dear Ecosia Team,
thank you so much for all the good you have achieved so far.
It's simply astonishing that you were able to plant an unbelievable 50.000.000 trees in just a few years time, changing people's lives for the better and fighting climate change.
We all are grateful for your immense contributions to our planet and humbled by your constant strive for good. Keep up your excellent and inspiring work!

[kaushikdas]

My contribution 20 tree already and keep counting ..nature lover from Assam, India

[dancornell]

Step 1: Reach 50 million :)
Step 2: Defeat google
Step 3: Save the planet

[thewarrior]

In the last 6 months, we've planted over 16 million trees since this video. that's more than a fifth of the 50 million trees planted in 9 years. We're heading in the right direction.

[grigorij]

Next goal is 100 million. Lets go for the environment people:) ;)

[jaridkeen]

Wait, so if I just use this search engine they will us 80% of there profits to plant trees?

[bearwithasombrero]

Sometimes I wake up, I think about the fact that humans are pieces of shit that don't care about the environment. Then I see this video and I feel so much better, reading the comments literally made me tear up because I feel so great about the fact that there are people that care, there are people ready to change the world! Thank you so much for the amazing things you did and let's continue like that and even better!!

[TheAwkward]

Thank you Ecosia! This has brought tears to my eyes! The anxiety I feel over the direction our planet is heading can be absolutely paralyzing at times. This makes me feel as though there's hope for us.

[dannygibson.meditating]

You've missed out one big change that you're making ... You're changing the perspective of every single person that hears about all the great things you're doing. Every one thinks that the future is doom and gloom, and no wonder they do through all the negative media we are fed. But I do not think that for one second, because of companies like Ecosia. Please EVERYONE spread the word about Ecosia, for a better future for my son, your children, and the future of the world 💚💚💚

[benceseger]

Turn the whole world into a big jungle, come on people, plant more trees!!

[keithheaven]

Very glad my daughter encouraged me to switch to Ecosia: wonderful concept, fantastic work!

[tonydeveyra]

we need 1.2 Trillion trees to reverse global warming. Thank you for fighting the good fight

[eothebest]

I'm so emotional right now, I literally checked the tree counter every 30 seconds today in math class.
I was there when it hit 50 million and all I have left to say is Thank you for changing my world and so many others.

thank you for restoring our world back to the beauty of before.
thank you for helping the beautiful animals get there territory back, and for helping California recover.
thank you for supporting family's in need.
thank you for being so community driven, for empowering woman, and respecting my data.
and for inspiring me to do better, to strive higher, to see the power of me to make change in this world.
but most of all thanks, from the bottom of my heart, thank you for inspiring us to be the best we can be, and that out of nowhere, one person and one tree can change the world.

It's crazy to see how you've grown from 2014 and in the past week I have roped 15 people onto the ecosia train to celebrate 50m, and will continue until we hit 100 million trees and beyond. The crazy thing is the community we have grown together, and how it will continue to expand. Just look at the likes to dislikes ratio of is 3000:6 how crazy is that?!

if you are reading this thank you so much, and if you are from ecosia this is for you. it would be so awesome if you could maybe team up with duckduckgo.
both of you love seeing change in the world, and duckduckgo even has a option to disable ads.
maybe a 30% profit to ecosia on duckduck go, + you get there search engine, and 5% of your profits to duckduckgo?

love from MA,
eothebest

↑ like so ecosia can see ↑Thank you ecosia for making this awesome community.

[samanthareed]

Now we need to come together and replant the burned places of the rain forest!

[madae.]

You should put more videos and monetize them, so that we can watch them all and help even more!!! ❤️

[samuel.k]

Thank you you are the only one who thinks well...
We only can change the world if we support ecosia ❤️