The Alberta Motor Association has announced a significant investment in reforestation that will see 200K trees planted across the province.
According to the AMA, the initiative marks the first of its kind for the organization and will see roughly 247 football fields of trees planted in protected land designated by the province to always remain wild.
AMA President and CEO Michelle Chimko says the commitment will ensure a thriving environment for future Albertans and hopes to fight the loss of Alberta’s biodiversity while reducing Alberta’s carbon footprint.
“Our 100-hectare commitment is one of the ways we hope to reduce our carbon footprint while fighting biodiversity loss on Alberta land,” she says.
Two forests will see thousands of trees planted. In the south, the Benoit site in Lamont County will have 19,980 trees planted, while the Flatbush site in the north will see more than 80K trees planted with the expectation that a combined 225 metric tonnes of carbon will be removed from the atmosphere within the next 150 years.
