Forests
Forests are essential for life on Earth. They give us shade and shelter, refuge and refreshment, clean air and water. Today, with a growing global population and subsequent demand for forest products, 80% of the world’s forests have been degraded or destroyed.
Challenges we don’t realize
• More than 32 million acres of forests are converted each year for development or other uses, or lost to natural causes like fire and disease.
• Changes in climate have altered the habitats of many species.
• With excessive carbon in the atmosphere contributing to climate change, there is a growing need to enhance forests’ capacity for sequestering and storing carbon.
Why we must care
Forests and climate change are inherently linked. As greenhouse gases build up in the atmosphere, they trap heat. This increased heat leads to changes in climate patterns, which affect everything on the planet, including forests. One of the biggest contributors to climate change is carbon dioxide, of which the human race has produced increasing amounts since the industrial age.
But when the forests are kept healthy, it plays a key role in climate change. Loss of forest’s ability to mitigate the effects of climate change will mean losing many important ecosystem benefits.

Managing forests to help them retain and increase their carbon storage potential can maximize their ability to mitigate climate change. Therefore, it is essential that we recognize the value of this benefit by avoiding deforestation, restoring damaged forests, and maintaining healthy ecosystems.
What EAA is doing
EAA campaigns for forest protection because, without healthy, thriving forests, planet Earth cannot sustain life.
Urban Forests
EAA promotes a larger, healthier urban forest as part of New York’s green infrastructure through community planting, tree care, education, and advocacy as a stewardship corps partner of MillionTreesNYC.
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Who wants to get junk mail? But believe or not, two acres of forests are cut to stumps per every minute to produce junk mails. This needs to stop. EAA promotes the public to voluntarily sign up to stop receiving junk mails.