What
if the future of your children, their children, and your great-grandchildren was
dependent on your making the
right choice…right here,
right now?
Would you do it?
Because that’s the big idea. Sometimes the biggest
ideas are the simplest. Your gift of $50 today will plant one Champion Coast Redwood clone in 2015. Our goal is to plant 2000 of these trees in the coming year.
People
around the world are starting to understand that climate change is not only
real, but its impacts are imminent and will become more severe unless we make big changes now. They are
struggling to come up with solutions as natural disasters, extreme
temperatures, and water
shortages threaten people and species everywhere. At Archangel Ancient Tree
Archive, we feel that one solution is far simpler than most think.
But first, a little about us...
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About Archangel Ancient Tree Archive
Archangel Ancient Tree Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is the first organization in the world that locates and vegetatively propagates the world’s largest and most iconic trees. AATA is creating living libraries of old-growth tree genetics by cloning superior old-growth "Champion" trees through traditional and advanced horticultural propagation for the purpose of future research and functional reforestation.
The mission of Archangel Ancient Tree Archive is to:
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Propagate the world’s most important old-growth trees before they are gone.
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Archive the genetics of ancient trees in living libraries around the world for the future.
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Reforest the Earth with the offspring of these trees to provide the myriad of beneficial ecosystem services including sequestering carbon dioxide; essentially a global warming solution.
We now have 2,000 Champion Coast
Redwood cloned saplings ready to plant, but need your help.
The Archangel team has expended tremendous time and effort over the past six years to locate a wide variety of the largest and oldest ancient redwoods from across their 600 mile range. We have carefully and with great risk collected the specific tissue needed for the cloning process from the tops of these old giants, developed and then replicated the cloning process, and have raised these clones to an age where they are able to be transplanted back to a suitable forest setting. These ancient giants provide the exact replica DNA of the original old-growth parent trees to the world for planting.
The
saplings
are growing robustly in Archangel’s Copemish,
Michigan facility,
and since they are now at their peak planting age, we need your help to get
them from Michigan to appropriate planting locations around the world. These
special clones are direct genetic copies of the original old-growth giants and
once planted, will help genetically strengthen and expand the current range of
Coast Redwoods. It's a crucial step in our plan for restoring the global forest.
- Every gift of $50 helps to plant one Coast Redwood
in the 2015 planting season.
- Your gift of any size will help us reach
our goal and begin to reforest the planet with these giant trees that can make a significant impact on
climate change, and to allow us to continue to ramp up to produce more of these special trees.
Perhaps the
most efficient tree planting possible is to reforest the Earth with the oldest
and most effective carbon filters alive—the ancient Coast Redwoods. With the work of Archangel Ancient Tree Archive, this is now possible.
We just need your help.