City’s businesses challenged to support tree planting plan

Andrew Steel, founder of the Plant A Tree Today Foundation, will announce its aim of planting one million trees when he speaks at Green City Hull, part of Hull Business Week.

The foundation is inviting businesses and individuals to help restore forests in countries including Thailand, Indonesia and India.

Mr Steel, 40, a former pupil of Andrew Marvell secondary school, is expected to say: “We are a multi-national charity with workers and projects from right across the world. But it would make me proud if Hull became one of the leading drivers in demonstrating how local people can make an international impact against deforestation and climate change.

“So here today, in support of the 2011 United Nations International Year of the Forest, what better place than this great city for the PATT Foundation to announce its global ambition – to plant over one million trees.”

The Foundation tackles climate change by planting native trees, reforesting areas that have been destroyed through illegal logging, development and agriculture.

Details of the Foundation’s work can be found online at www.pattfoundation.org.