Forest conservation charity gains Haggis support!

Press Release 27th February 2007

Trees for Life Executive Director Alan Watson Featherstone (left) receives a giant-sized cheque from Dave Peddie of Haggis Adventures, with one of the Edinburgh-based company's tour groups behind, in the Caledonian Forest of the Glen Affric National Nature Reserve.

Conservation charity Trees for Life has today received an important boost to its award-winning forest restoration work, through a generous donation from Scottish tour operator, Haggis Adventures. The Edinburgh-based company chose Trees for Life as one of the beneficiaries of the £3,500 raised at their recent Christmas raffle. The money will be used by the charity to help fund their ambitious plans to plant 100,000 trees this year, as part of the United Nation Environment Programme’s Billion Tree Campaign.

Speaking at the handover of a giant-sized cheque amongst the pinewoods of the Glen Affric National Nature Reserve, Alan Watson Featherstone, Trees for Life’s Executive Director, commented "We're very grateful for this generous donation from Haggis Adventures, which is an important contribution towards our goal of planting 100,000 native trees in 2007. With the company's tours visiting sites such as Glen Affric, where we're working with Forestry Commission Scotland to help restore the Caledonian Forest, this donation is a good example of corporate environmental responsibility, as it will help to renew the landscape that the visitors come to experience."

Jason Clark of Haggis Adventures commented
"Our teams strongly believe in giving something back to the communities in which we operate. Every year our team organise a Festive Charity Raffle for our highly popular Christmas Tours, and we are delighted to have raised a record breaking £3,500."

 

Notes to editors

1. Trees for Life is a pioneering charity in ecological restoration. It aims to restore the Caledonian Forest to an area of 1,500 square kilometres in the Highlands west of Inverness. Today only 1% of the original Caledonian Forest remains.
2. Since planting its first trees in 1991 in Glen Affric, Trees for Life has planted over half a million trees. It has won several awards for its conservation work, including UK Conservation Project of the Year in 1991.
3. The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has launched the Billion Tree Campaign, to involve people and organisations around the world in planting a billion trees in 2007, to help address the issue of climate change. See: http://www.unep.org/Billiontreecampaign
4. The £3,500 raised was divided between Trees for Life and The Sick Kids Friends Foundation, based in Edinburgh.

 

 

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Published: 7 February 2007
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