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oblongtrees @oblongtrees

We plant trees so you can offset your carbon footprint. Our 10 year plan is designed to be simple and affordable.

Joined August 2019
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On Saturday we planted just over 500 trees, it was a fantastic day. We had around 10 people planting, lots of photos/film and even drone footage was taken so there will be much better photos to share soon. This was our biggest planting day yet - thank you to everyone that helped.
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Our planting partner in Peru - Global Forest Gen/ACCIÓN ANDINA are a finalist for this years Earthshot prize. This is the 2nd of our tree planting partners to have achieved finalist status for the Earthshot prize. earthshotprize.org/winners-f…

Acción Andina - Earthshot Prize Winner 2023

Acción Andina is a grassroots, community-based initiative working across South America to protect native high Andean forest ecosystems.

earthshotprize.org
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Fantastic news, our planting partner in the Democratic Republic of Congo the PolePole Foundation recently planted over 9,000 trees for us. They are a NGO that protect critically endangered gorillas living in the rainforest in the Kahuzi-Biega National Park.
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Our MD Dan met up with Beccy Wood (presenter) to record an interview at one of our sites. Beccy also gave the weather forecast live from the site. The interview was aired yesterday on Midlands Today. Thank you Richard & Martin from Tool Connection for helping out on the day
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We've finally got the prizes for the bug hotel competition together. Thank you toolconnection.co.uk/ for funding these. Over the next few weeks we'll place the hotels around our existing tree planting sites - more photos to come...
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Today we visited the lovely people at @Laser_Tools, we took along the entries for our bug hotel competition and gave them the tricky job of choosing the winners. @Laser_Tools very kindly funded prizes. All entries will end up at one of our tree planting sites. Thanks everyone.
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Just a quick reminder - our bug hotel building competition closes on the 5th June. It isn't too late to enter and there are some great prizes, donated by toolconnection.co.uk/ For more details see oblongtrees.com/news.html
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The lovely people at Personalised Business Marketing have supported our tree planting since 2021, they have funded over 4,000 trees. PBM raise funds per product sold. They sell customised promotional items pbm-uk.com/thank you for funding so many trees, you are amazing.
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Our trees are mostly funded by companies. They are planting trees not for gain, not because the government is forcing them, but because it is a good thing to do. We couldn't plant trees without their help, so once a month, we're going to thank one of these wonderful businesses.
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We spent a good chunk of April working at one of our sites. Using various methods we've prepared and sewn native wildflower seed around the edges of our trees. We've chosen a mix of native wildflowers to help birds, bees & butterflies. Here are the first signs of life...
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Our planter in Malawi has finished planting our latest trees. They recently planted a total of 10,500 more trees for us (including 3,500 fruit trees). Our funding not only supports growing new trees, but it also helps protect existing forests.
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We've moved our photos over to Flickr so everyone can access them. For now we're using a free Flickr account, there is a limit of 1,000 photos so we've not been able to upload everything - the photos cover everything in the last 12 months, plus some more. flickr.com/photos/198040877@…
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Our UK planting season is over. We've now planted well over 10,000 trees across 18 sites in the UK. We're planting mostly on non production land, creating rich biodiverse pockets. This season we planted 14 different native tree species. Thank you to everyone who contributed.
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Last weekend we planted our 10,000th UK tree - the Wild Cherry in the picture with the cap on the cane. Only a small proportion of our trees are planted in the UK, each tree represents a lot more trees planted by our international planters. Next target 25,000...
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We just added info for 5 of our UK planting sites to the news page on our website - oblongtrees.com/news.html sorry for the delay getting the information out there, we've been very busy planting thousands of trees. We'll be adding more news updates soon...
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Our planting partner in Peru has recently planted 4,500 trees for us, we'll receive more photos and maps soon. They are one of our more expensive planters, so we don't plant as many trees here as we would like, still overtime the no. of trees accumulates. Thank you everyone!!
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Our planting partner in Kenya recently planted 12,000 trees for us. 8,000 of these trees we planted to help re-forest an area around Mount Kenya and 4,000 of the trees were planted as part of an agroforestry project. Thank you everyone for making this possible.
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We've been planting trees at several sites this week. The tree pictured is one of our first ever Cherry Plum trees, these are going to look beautiful in years to come. We're on track to have planted over 10,000 trees in the UK by the end of this planting season.
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Our planting Partner Promise the pod will soon be planting thousands more trees for us here. The Gail Achterman Wildlife Area (GAWA) is a beautiful hidden gem that totals 290 acres of riparian forest located in Polk County along the Willamette River.
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Out of 14 sites for this season, we've started planting 10 of them. We've ~2,500 trees left to plant. We've planted: SilverBirch, Alder, CrabApple, Hazel, ScotsPine, WildCherry, Hornbeam, DownyBirch, Aspen, Oak, Lime, Hawthorn, Rowan, BlackPoplar, NorwaySpruce & BirdCherry.
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