One Million Trees Project ( MTC )

About the project:

Project Description
 TThe One Million Trees program launched by APN founders in 2001, involves replanting trees in Palestinian lands razed by Israeli bulldozers in areas where Jewish settlements and bypass roads are built/expanded in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.

In April 2008, APN announced the end of replanting one million trees in various locations, including olive, fruit and palm trees, and launched the Second Million Trees Program.

Background
Thousands of acres of Palestinian agricultural land have been razed over the years by Israeli bulldozers, families displaced and vital routes disconnected in the West Bank and Gaza strip as Israeli occupation authorities continue to build/expand Jewish settlements and bypass roads. Nearly 1,500,000 trees were uprooted in the years 2001-2007, most of them were olive trees. Israel’s building of the Apartheid Wall in the occupied West bank in recent years has swallowed/destroyed more Palestinian agricultural lands.

The program was adopted by many local, regional, and international Institutions and civil society organizations such as Qater Red Crescent, Any War and Globalization Conference and Students Committees at Lidz University.

Objectives

  • Replant olive and other trees in damaged Palestinian lands.

  • Support Palestinian farmers and families through creating job opportunities to generate income for them.

  • Help Palestinians hold on to their lands.

  • Protect and preserve the environment.

  • Raising awareness of Israel’s plans to expel Palestinians from their agricultural lands.

  • Coordinate contacts internationally promoting the project through media campaigns and advocacy material.

     


Project Cost
The five-year project cost was estimated at five million dollars and it was financed by donations.

 

 

Achievements
The project was implemented in collaboration with the million tree campaign steering committee which comprises of: Arab for Protection of Nature (APN), The Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees (PARC), Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), Palestinian Ministry of Agriculture (MOA), Welfare Association (WA), Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC),
and The Global Network of Institutions Working on the Subject of Jerusalem.
 


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The Tree Campaign
APN is pursuing a media campaign to reveal the destruction caused by the Israeli razing of Palestinian agricultural lands and uprooting of trees. The campaign included:

  • Issuing an international appeal to encourage donations to the tree project in Palestine.

  • Producing/ distributing leaflets and posters to alert the public to the dangers threatening the environment in Palestine as a result of the Israeli occupation.

  • Launching contacts with Arab and international groups and with Arab expatriates to explain the objectives of the project and encourage donations.

  • Preparing studies on water and agricultural conditions in Palestine.

  • Conduct fundraising events.

 



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