Hands holding a sprouting tree in soil. — Tree seedlings New seedlings ready for planting. This tree planting was on state property near Finland, Minnesota and administered under Minnesota’s Aquatic Management Area program to protect critical shoreland habitat and provide access to land managers and anglers. The Nature Conservancy's Plant A Billion Trees campaign is a major forest restoration effort with a goal of planting a billion trees across the planet. Finland, Minnesota. © David Bowman

Plant Trees for Earth Day

Join the Berkshire Hathaway Sustainability Leadership Council in their goal to Plant Trees for Earth Day

March 31, 2021

The Nature Conservancy's (TNC) Plant a Billion Trees campaign is a major forest restoration effort with a goal of planting a billion trees across the planet. Trees provide so many benefits to our everyday lives. They filter clean air, provide fresh drinking water, help curb climate change, and create homes for thousands of species of plants and animals.

The Berkshire Hathaway Sustainability Council members or their affiliated foundations and Clayton decided to come together in honor of Earth Day by supporting TNC’s Plant a Billion Trees Program.

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Join this effort by helping us to plant trees in places like Brazil, China, Colombia, Kenya, Mexico, Tanzania and the United States!

Atlantic Forest

This forest is home to many species of birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians including many endangered species found nowhere else in the world.

Atlantic Forest

Deforestation of this forest has reduced the amount of water available to local communities. We are planting trees to help create more freshwater for people to drink.

Atlantic Forest

With tall straight trunks and an umbrella of branches at the crown, the araucaria trees, often knows as monkey puzzle trees in English, lend a distinctive look to the landscape

Cerrado Forest

Enormous biodiversity qualifies the Cerrado as the richest savanna in the world. In addition the Cerrado is home to the headwaters of the most import Brazilian Rivers.

Cerrado Forest

Home to thousands of plant and animal species that we can protect by restoring this great forest.

Cerrado Forest

The threat of expansion has hurt these forests but we can help bring them back to life through forest restoration.

Atlantic Forest

Due to expansion and development, these forests are threatened. We can help restore by planting in these areas.

Atlantic Forest

Home to thousands of plant and animal species, the Atlantic Forest is an important habitat of Brazil.

Yucatan Peninsula

The Maya Forest is recognized as the America’s second-largest tropical forest after the Amazon.

Chiapas

These forests are inhabited by jaguars, the resplendent quetzal and the horned guan bird, known as the unicorn of the cloud forest.

Yunnan Province

Planting here not only provides the benefits of forests, but also jobs for communities so they have the knowledge and skills to protect the ecosystem where they live

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Sichuan Province

The Plant a Billion projects in China bring employment opportunities to over one thousand local people in China.

Upper Tana Watershed

More than 25,000 farmers in this region participate in water- and soil-conservation methods through the Upper Tana-Nairobi Water Fund.

Greater Mahale Ecosystem

This forest provides critical habitat for 93% of Tanzania’s endangered chimpanzees.

Ngare Ndare Forest Reserve

We’re working with community forest associations to restore & conserve the natural forest, and to plant trees for sustainable timber supply, reducing pressure on the natural forest

Coastal Tanzania

We’re using science to help communities plant the right types of mangroves in the right place at the right time.

Upper Great Lakes

Our work over the last 15 years has focused on protecting large tracts of forests that are threatened in this area.

Mississippi Bottomland Hardwood

Bottomland hardwood forests once covered over 21 million acres along the waterways and tributaries of the Mississippi River, but only two percent remain.

Shortleaf Pine

Shortleaf pine forests once covered a vast area but now more than 50% have been lost. We are working to restore these iconic forests.

Central Appalachian Forests

Central Appalachian forests filter and store clean drinking water for millions of people for the Ohio River Valley and Washington D.C. areas.

Longleaf Pine

Longleaf pine was once a dominant forest across nine states from Virginia to Texas. Now that very little of the forest remains, we are working to bring it back to life.

Colombia

22% of the country’s deforestation is taking place in this areas of the country.

Planting Trees Across the United States, Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, China, & Africa Explore the map by clicking on locations to learn more about our planting sites.

Supporters that committed $2,500 each to TNC's Plant a Billion Trees