Canada’s 2 Billion Trees program aims to provide financial support to organizations in order to plant trees over a 10 year span.
Parks Canada is working to plant trees across 26 sites through the program to help renew ecosystems. In Atlantic regions, the organization is collecting seeds on-site to help trees at risk and build a stronger forest in the future.
Planting 2 billion trees is seen as a significant step toward tackling both climate change and biodiversity loss. The planted trees well capture and store carbon from the atmosphere, improve air and water quality, help restore nature and biodiversity, cool urban centers, and create thousands of new green jobs.
Parks Canada shared a vlog from Cape Breton Highlands National Park in Nova Soctia, showing how they’re working to plant what will one day be a future forest.
