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Hi everyone, welcome to My Green Closet! Today's video is in partnership

with Ecosia which is a search engine that plants trees.

The way it works is the ad revenue from your searches,

you know those ads that appear at the top of your search results?

A percent of their profit goes towards funding

reforestation projects around the world. Now we all know that trees are good for

the planet but they also really help people and

communities so we're going to take a little trip with Ecosia to check out a

couple of their projects and first we're going to head to the 'True Village' in Madagascar

I am protecting this forest

people have come trying to steal our trees I told them you will have to carry

my body away dead. The forest is too important to our village

because we are protecting the forest we can actually survive on our own from the

land here and not have to rely on other places

but there is disaster just outside

all the villages near us have cut their forest down and now they struggle to survive

It's devastating but we have a plan to save our region.

Eden Reforestation Projects is partnering with us

The goal for the project is to replant the trees that were lost

to connect these new trees to the remaining forest

this replanted forest will reach all the way to all the villages

and even to the national reserve

My father will be proud

he used to say a healthy forest takes care of itself and every living things below

I love that video and I'm so excited to see how that project develops and the

next project we're going to check out is in Indonesia now recently I've become a

lot more aware of the effects of palm oil when it comes to deforestation and

this is particularly a big problem in Indonesia. People who own property with

forests have been turning them into palm oil plantations because it can be very profitable

So Ecosia is working with an organization that helps people grow

other trees which can also be profitable but don't cause deforestation.

I was born in the forest, I have the feelings that this is my obligations to keep the forest.

If the forest lost our culture is lost and then of course our future will be lost

The biggest threat, this you know palm oil?

It's just like a cancer

like a virus like that. It's like killing everything

The oil palm plantations offer the people good work.

the company promised them of the good salary

more of them only to become victims of their promise

I always trying to be optimist. I think it's the most important so we will keep

our fight, to show the people and to change their paradigm. It's not easy but we

will try to do the best way we have.

This is a sugar palm why I like it so

much is because it's really one of the most productive trees on the planet so a

full-grown tree can produce 200 litres of sugar water every day and if a

farmer gets good at tapping about 6 different trees a day he makes an

income that is 4 times the minimum wage here in Indonesia and the good thing

about this lovely tree is it will only grow in the mixed forest.

Dimin is boiling the sugar water that he got from his trees and after about 4 to 5 hours

of boiling this will turn into pure sugar. Sometimes they also boil it for say

only an hour or so and then it's a more thicker sugar water that one is mainly

used in the villages here because the real fine sugar gets a much much higher price

and that is also going to the international markets so I really

recommend you to buy that because you're directly supporting standing forests.

So like I said at the beginning this is literally the easiest thing you can do

you just switch your search browser and then roughly every 45 searches you do

with Ecosia plants one tree and Ecosia has created a special link so if you get

it through the link below it will not only track how many trees you plant but

also how many trees the My Green Closet community has planted so I'll be getting

updates on how many trees we've planted together which I think is so cool

Imagine - we are over sixty billion on the earth. If every day one person plant trees

for a year you can imagine how many trees would be planted

We would save the planet and we could make the Usambara and the

planet is the best place to live.

So I really hope you'll consider making the switch,

helping plant some trees and joining our community tree count.

Thank you so much to Ecosia for sponsoring this video and for the beautiful footage

of some of their projects! Thank you for watching and to those of you supporting

me on Patreon and I'll see you in the next one