

Our Reforestation Directory is built on a three-month research effort to record publicly available information on more than 350 tree-planting projects in 80 countries. We thought this would be a useful starting point for people wanting to fund reforestation, so they could identify projects that align with their interests. Mongabay has put together a directory to show whether tree-planting and reforestation projects publicly disclose the criteria that experts say are keys to success. So how can an investor or donor decide what projects to support? What kinds of questions should we be asking to assess tree-planting projects and ensure they are delivering the results they promise? Green Ethiopia, an eco-humanitarian NGO that works to reforest degraded landscapes. So, it’s always a bit more difficult to find out whether your order was actually done.” “But with tree planting, it doesn’t work that way because the thing that you ordered never gets delivered to your doorstep. “If you buy something online and you pay for it and then it never arrives, you’re going to complain,” Pieter Van Midwoud, chief tree-planting officer at Ecosia, a search engine that generates revenue to plant trees, told Mongabay. Planting trees is all the rage right now - billionaires from Elon Musk to Marc Benioff are touting the benefits of massive reforestation - but it’s hard to identify legitimate initiatives and even more difficult to figure out which are effective and can deliver on their promises. Here, we present some key questions to ask and criteria to consider when evaluating the legitimacy and effectiveness of a tree-planting project.

Rather than make an assessment (and perceived endorsement) of the quality of the projects, Mongabay’s review is based on how much information is publicly disclosed by an organization.Our directory is built on a three-month research effort to record publicly available information on more than 350 tree-planting projects in 80 countries.Mongabay has put together a database to show whether tree-planting and reforestation projects publicly disclose the criteria that experts say are keys to success.As pleasant as the film's musical score is, "Round Midnight" succeeds because the cast of music professionals shows what they can do away from the bandstand. and French jazz players paying tribute to their own. Musicians are not necessarily actors, but "Round Midnight" is bolstered by strong performances from a number of U.S. Essentially, Gordon played himself, for which he deservedly received an Oscar nomination on his first try. The two were part of a large group of black American jazzmen who gigged across Western Europe as the 52nd Street scene back home began to wane. Gordon spent much of his working life in Copenhagen and in 1963 made a record with Powell in Paris. Melding the life stories of pianist Bud Powell and sax man Lester Young into a memorable character called Dale Turner, Tavernier benefited from the fortunate casting of real-life musician Dexter Gordon to play this role. (The Blue Note Club is a studio set, the original having been pulled down). Germain des Pres scene, crafted "Round Midnight" as a nostalgic tribute to a now-vanished European musical scene. Director/scenarist Bertrand Tavernier, a veteran of the St. French intellectuals such as Sartre (in his pro-American hotdogs-and-bourbon phase) applied their knowledge to the music of poorly-educated African-Americans and discovered that this too, like the cinema of Jerry Lewis, was something they could like about America. In the Existentialist '50s, bebop jazz expanded beyond Manhattan and became all the rage in Paris.
