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Trees for Life was founded in 1984 by Balbir Mathur, an India-born American businessman. While working as an international business consultant, Mathur had several life-changing experiences, and went through an illness that left him unable to walk for two years. After his illness he started helping people in India plant fruit trees.
Trees for Life may refer to: Trees for Life (Scotland), a charity restoring the Caledonian Forest; Trees for Life (United States), a non-profit organisation helping plant fruit trees in developing countries; Trees For Life (Australia), a non-profit group dedicated to revegetation
Trees For Life was established in 1981 two weeks after a visit from Richard St. Barbe Baker, the founder of the International Tree Foundation, then known as Men of the Trees. [1] It was originally the South Australian branch of Men of the Trees, and became Trees For Life two years later. [1] The first tree was planted in 1982 at One Tree Hill. [3]
Petersianthus quadrialatus (also called toog and Philippine rosewood) is an emergent tropical rainforest tree species in the Lecythidaceae family. In the Visayas region called kapullan, in the Samar and Leyte areas - magtalisai. It is an indigenous tree species in the southeastern Philippines and one of the largest tree species in the ...
Scientists believe that the floral and faunal biodiversity unique to the Philippines is caused by the Ice Age. [2] They also believe that the country has the most severely endangered plant and animal communities on earth. [3] Bohol is an island province in the Philippines and its 10th largest island. It is located in the Central Visayas region ...
Artocarpus blancoi is a species of large tree in the family Moraceae endemic to the Philippines. Its habitat (among seasonal forest or thicket growth in low-lying areas) is threatened. [1] It is locally known as tipolo, tipulo, or atipolo in Tagalog and the Visayan languages (Philippine Spanish: antipolo).
Eucalyptus deglupta is a species of tall tree, commonly known as the rainbow eucalyptus, [3] Mindanao gum, or rainbow gum [4] that is native to the Philippines, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea. It is the only Eucalyptus species that usually lives in rainforest, with a natural range that extends into the Northern Hemisphere. It is characterized ...
The balete tree (also known as balite or baliti) are several species of trees in the Philippines from the genus Ficus, which are generally referred to as balete in Filipino. A number of these are strangler figs , as they germinate upon other trees, before entrapping their host tree entirely and eventually killing it.