What can you do this Earth Day to help the world’s forests?
This Earth Day we’re asking Costco to make another meaningful commitment to sustainability by helping save 1.5 billion acres of boreal forests.
Forests
Keeping our forests healthy, whole and wild.
The trees that make up our forests are some of the oldest living things on Earth, many of them older than America itself. These forests provide crucial habitat for thousands of species. They provide limitless opportunities for recreation, exploration and wonder. What’s more, our forests absorb and store carbon dioxide, which makes them crucial allies in our race against climate change. Together we can protect our forests from road-building, logging, development and other threats.
The Latest on Forests
Americans are calling for public lands to stay in public hands
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In nature, fewer sounds abound
Biden marks Earth Day with visit to Prince William Forest Park
What You Can Do
Tell your U.S. representative: Public lands shouldn’t be pawned off to the highest bidder
Featured Resources
How young environmentalists can protect trees and forests
The Biden administration has released $1 billion in funding for urban trees. Here’s why that matters.
Journey Through the Tongass
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Help protect the Tongass, Earth’s largest temperate rainforest
The Tongass is a wild, untamed Alaskan forest, home to wildlife from flying squirrels to endangered wolves. But the Tongass is also in great danger.
STATEMENT: Procter & Gamble commits to clarifying wood pulp sourcing policies
Canada’s boreal forest includes some of the most majestic woodlands in the world -- and some of the most endangered as well because of excessive logging.
Solving our e-waste problem could help save forests
Forests are being destroyed to clear land for mining. We can save trees by wasting less of what we already have.
Forest quiz: Amazing boreal forest facts
Take our quiz to see if you can guess the answers to some of our favorite facts about this breathtakingly unique place.
Tell Home Depot: Protect the boreal forest
The majestic trees of the boreal forest are being cut down at a shocking rate—and many end up on a shelf at Home Depot. We’re calling on them to stop.
