HIGH IN THE MOUNTAINS of Honduras, Rain Forest Rescue® donations are having a multitude of positive impacts. As always, they are promoting environmentally friendly shade-grown coffee that reduces chemical inputs and saves overstory trees for wildlife habitat. However, some of the funds are being used to stabilize higher-elevation slopes where an epidemic of southern pine beetles has destroyed more than 1.25 million acres of forest. This once richly forested land serves as the source of… Read More at https://arbordayblog.org/?p=10089
 

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published on: Fri, 12 Jun 2020 12:30:00 +0000