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KINOME - L'arbre et la vie
Kinomé signifie « bourgeon » en japonais et se lit aussi œil (me) de l’arbre (ki). Kinomé est une société spécialisée dans la revalorisation durable des forêts et la reforestation. En effet, Kinomé propose aux entreprises et à la société en général de regarder les problèmes de notre temps avec "l'œil de l'arbre" et de s'inspirer du fonctionnement multifonctionnel des forêts (bois matériau et énergie, carbone, eau, sol, biodiversité…) pour apporter des solutions durables et éthiques à ces problèmes.

Armenia Tree Project
Armenia Tree Project works to further Armenia’s economic and social development by mobilizing resources to fund reforestation. These vital new trees provide food, wood, environmental benefits, and opportunities for economic growth.

Forestavenir
The aims of Forestavenir are to motivate organisations and households to become carbon neutral by a series of steps: first of all, absolute energy savings and reduction of fossil fuels usage and second a capture of the incompressible carbon usage by sponsoring trees.

Green Belt Movement
The official site of the Green Belt Movement and its founder, 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai. GBM provides income and sustenance to millions of people in Kenya through the planting of trees. It also conducts educational campaigns to raise awareness about women's rights, civic empowerment, and the environment throughout Kenya and Africa.

Global Trees Campaign
Over 8000 tree species, 10% of the world’s total, are threatened with extinction. Global Trees Campaign aims to help conserve them through information, conservation and wise use.

National Arbor Day Foundation
National Arbor Day Foundation inspire people to plant, nurture and celebrate trees.

Plant-a-tree-today.com
Though the effects of deforestation and global warming can't be completely reversed, Plant-a-tree-today assists in the discovery of how planting trees can help to combat climate change, provide sustainable economic development for developing countries and poor rural communities, and reduce the effects of natural disasters.

Sustainable Harvest International
Sustainable Harvest International helps farmers reverse rainforest destruction with sustainable land-use practices that allow them to take control of their environmental and economic destinies.

Taking Action - Forests
An Environmental Guide for you and your Community

Tree Link
The Tree Link site provides information, research, and networking for people working in urban and community forestry. Their aim is to raise awareness and support for healthy urban forests.

7000Trees.com
Combat Global Warning: Plant a Tree Take Part in a Global Art / Tree Event - A tree planting scheme that enables people to post photos of tree plantings and dedicate them to friends. This project is also a commemoration of Joseph Beuys' early ecological action of planting 7000 oak trees in Kassel, Germany in the 1980.

Technical and Scientific Support

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) – Forestry
Forestry contributes significantly to the achievement of FAO's mission to "help build a food-secure world for present and future generations," and to "assist Member Nations in: reducing food insecurity and rural poverty; ensuring an enabling policy and regulatory framework for food and agriculture, fisheries and forestry; securing sustainable increases in the supply and availability of food; conserving and enhancing the natural resource base; and generating knowledge of food and agriculture, fisheries and forestry".

Global Forest Resources Assessment 2005 (FRA 2005)
Since 1946, FAO regularly monitors the world's forests through Global Forest Resources Assessments. The mandate to carry out these assessments stems both from the basic statutes of FAO and the Committee on Forestry (COFO).

Horizon Solutions site
The purpose of the site is to provide a forum for the presentation of solutions to vital concerns in the areas of health, population, development and the environment. By presenting the case studies on the Internet, the Solutions Site provides the means to encourage replication of the initiatives presented, and to foster the development of new ones.

Millenium Ecosystem Assessment
The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) is an international work program designed to meet the needs of decision makers and the public for scientific information concerning the consequences of ecosystem change for human well-being and options for responding to those changes.

Pacific Southwest Research Station
The Pacific Southwest Research Station represents the research and development branch of the USDA Forest Service in the states of California and Hawaii and the U.S. affiliated Pacific Islands. They develop and deliver science-based information, technologies, understanding and applications to help people make well-informed decisions about natural resource management, conservation and environmental protection.

United Nations Forum on Forests
An intergovernmental policy forum to promote "...the management, conservation and and sustainable development of all types of forests and strengthen longterm political commitment to this end..."

UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre
The UNEP-WCMC evaluates and highlights the many values of biodiversity and puts authoritative biodiversity knowledge at the centre of decision-making.

World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)
ICRAF aims to achieve an 'agroforestry transformation' in the developing world resulting in a massive increase in the use of working trees on working landscapes by smallholder rural households that helps ensure security in food, nutrition, income, health, shelter and energy and a regenerated environment.

Worldwatch Institute
The Worldwatch Institute is an independent research organization that works for an environmentally sustainable and socially just society, in which the needs of all people are met without threatening the health of the natural environment or the well-being of future generations.

Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
As environmental issues have become more complex and more international, the new generation of environmental leaders will increasingly need professional training in environmental science, management, and policy.

NGOs and Associations

American Forests
American Forests works to protect, restore and enhance the natural capital of trees and forests. Healthy forests filter water, remove air pollution, sequester carbon, and provide homes for wildlife. Help plant trees to restore areas damaged by wildfire, where critical wildlife habitat has been lost, and to clean our air and water.

Baldwald - project (Germany)
The German „baldwald“ – project („baldwald“ means “soon wood”) is advertising, mediating and accompanying sponsorships for the planting of new woods. The project also reforest land in Germany and is the portal for all, who wants to support the lay out of new woods.

Center for Advancement of Rural Women (Iran)
The Mission of CAWIRAN is to promote rural women's access to education, health, legal and skill building resources. We empower rural women by creating opportunities and thereby encourage women's full participation in the processes of civil society.

Eco-Sys Foundation.
Eco-Sys Foundation works closely with communities so that they can understand the benefits to protect their fauna and flora. It aims to send local kids to school, provide health care and to establish a micro-economy through small businesses. For more information, please contact pgcat@wanadoo.fr

ENO-Environment Online
ENO-Environment Online is a global virtual school for sustainable development and environmental awareness. Four environmental themes are studied within a school year on a weekly basis. About 300 schools from 90 countries take part.

Foundation for Global Peace and Environment (FGPE)
The Foundation for Global Peace and Environment (FGPE) makes special efforts to raise environmental leaders among children around the world. All FGPE activities share a common theme: “Living Together on the Earth.”

Friends of the Earth
A national, nonprofit advocacy organization dedicated to protecting the planet from environmental degradation; preserving biological, cultural, and ethnic diversity; and empowering citizens to have an influential voice in discussions affecting the quality of their environment and their lives.

Global Action Plan
Empowering individuals to create sustainable lifestyles and livable neighborhoods through contracts with public sector agencies.

Gabriel Tree of Life Foundation
Gabriel Tree of Life Foundation aims at involving the community and schools in planting trees for both recreation and habitat. The foundation encourages the education and value of planting native trees back into the communities.

Hike for Katreena
New Orleans lost over 50,000 trees due to Hurricane Katrina and planting 2,175 trees will be Monique Pilié's contribution to restoring New Orleans, her hometown. She embarked April 9 2006 on a 2,175-mile hike of the Appalachian Trail, and with sponsorships and donations made for each step she takes, Pilié will buy live oaks and other trees to replace those killed by Katrina.

Nature Conservancy
The mission of The Nature Conservancy is to preserve the plants, animals, and natural communities that represent the diversity of life on Earth by protecting the lands and waters they need to survive. The Conservancy protects specific places where plant and animal species can survive for generations to come. It employs a scientific, systematic analysis to identify places large enough in scale and rich enough in plant and animals species to ensure meaningful conservation results.

Sierra Club
Broad-based environmental organization dedicated to protecting and preserving the environment and its natural resources. Involved with most major environmental issues.

South West Community Development Council
South West CDC has embarked on a 3-year initiative to plant 100,000 native plants around the South West District in Singapore.

Tree Canada
Tree Canada is a charitable organization which partners with local volunteers to improve our quality of life by planting and caring for trees. In your neighbourhoods, schoolyards, parks and in the countryside, Tree Canada leaves a living, breathing legacy for generations to come.

Trees for the Future
Communities around the world turn to Trees for the Future for technical knowledge and planting materials so that they can bring degraded lands and struggling farmlands back to sustainable productivity. Through our network of field technicians, community organizations, and volunteers, we will plant over 5 million trees in the coming year in agroforestry and reforestation projects worldwide.

Vitré-Tuvalu
Vitré-Tuvalu is a local NGO based in western France. Its aim is to build-awareness around the issue of sustainable development and ensure that the people of France in general and of the city of Vitré in particular, take an active role in balancing environmental protection, social progress and fair trade.

World Conservation Union - IUCN
The World Conservation Union is the world’s largest and most important conservation network. The Union brings together 82 States, 111 government agencies, more than 800 non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and some 10,000 scientists and experts from 181 countries in a unique worldwide partnership.The Union’s mission is to influence, encourage and assist societies throughout the world to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature and to ensure that any use of natural resources is equitable and ecologically sustainable.

Adopt-a-Tree Campaigns

Australia
Canada, British Columbia
Canada
Canada, Ontario
Canada, Ontario
Canada, Quebec
Canada, Vancouver
China
East Africa Regional Youth Network
England
England (street trees)
Haiti
Honduras
Lebanon, University of Balamand
Malta
Mexico
Pakistan, Mardan
Pakistan
Philippines, Manila
USA
USA, Berkeley University
USA, California
USA, Illinois (street trees)
USA, Illinois University
USA, North Dakota
USA, Ohio
USA, Washington