Trees for Survival

The Trees for Survival programme is run by the TfS Charitable Trust and is a hands-on environmental education experience promoting growing and planting of native trees and shrubs to:

* help control soil erosion
* safeguard water quality
* provide new habitats for native birds as well as other plants and animals
* beautify our environment
* remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
* renew a natural resource

The TFS programme is designed to involve children who learn about trees and their place in our environment. These plantings provide ‘at risk’ land with plant cover, restores eroded land to improve stream and water quality as well as providing habitats for the spread of our native flora and fauna. The programme also creates community partnerships by engaging not only schools and landowners but service clubs, regional and local councils, business sponsors and volunteers who all work together to protect our environmental heritage.