In my West London home, I am fortunate to be surrounded by so many lush green spaces, so it is easy to forget that every week, an area of rainforest the size of London is lost to deforestation.
As well as being home to 50% of the Planet Earth’s species, the rainforest plays a huge part in preventing the devastating effects of climate change, regulating rainfall and climate patterns,
reducing Co2 and cleaning our air.
The facts
According to the UN, we lose 88,000 sq. km of natural forest globally every year - that's an area of forest the size of London lost every week, or roughly one football pitch every 2 seconds. Only 17% of what’s left has any kind of proper protection.
We need trees for a variety of reasons, not least of which is that they absorb not only the carbon dioxide that we exhale, but also the heat-trapping greenhouse gases that human activities emit. As those gases enter the atmosphere, global warming increases, a trend scientists now prefer to call climate change
Eighty percent of Earth’s land animals and plants live in forests, and deforestation threatens species including the orangutan, Sumatran tiger, and many species of birds.
Farming, grazing of livestock, mining, and drilling combined account for more than half of all deforestation. Forestry practices, wildfires and, in small part, urbanisation account for the rest
When trees are felled, they release into the atmosphere all the carbon they’ve been storing. What the deforesters do with the felled trees—either leaving them to rot on the forest floor or burning them—creates further emissions
An estimated 8% of the earth’s carbon that is stored in living forests worldwide is stored in the forests of the Democratic Republic of Congos. The Congo Basin rainforest plays a critical role in regulating the global climate by absorbing CO2.
The main reason is agriculture. The world’s exploding population has made it profitable for big business to raze forests so it can plant mega crops like soy and oil palm
Adding 2.2 billion acres of tree cover would capture two-thirds of man-made carbon emissions, a new study found.
The UK will have to plant 1.5 billion trees if it is to meet its pledge to reach net zero emissions by 2050 – and this needs to “happen quickly”, government advisers have warned.
I CARE. I DRAW. I SUPPORT.
HERE IS HOW YOU CAN
[1] Help SAM reach his pledging target
£150 is the target Sam would like to reach. He agreed on given away the full amount to his chosen charity – WWF.
The artwork featured in this campaign is up for grabs. The highest contributor wins it at the end of the campaign. – Terms & conditions .
Pledge today and help Sam fulfil his total pledge – no payment is required
“My artwork will be used to support WWF and all the work they do to tackle climate change and protect our green spaces, before they are all gone.
My favourite colour and go-to palette in my abstract paintings is green. Since a young age I have been inspired by these rich tones and by the beauty found in nature.
In my West London home, I am fortunate to be surrounded by so many lush green spaces, so it is easy to forget that every week, an area of rainforest the size of London is lost to deforestation.
As well as being home to 50% of the Planet Earth’s species, the rainforest plays a huge part in preventing the devastating effects of climate change, regulating rainfall and climate patterns,
reducing Co2 and cleaning our air.”Sam
Terms & conditions
Use the form and pledge any amount you wish as little as £1.
After clicking on the PLEDGE NOW button, you will be taken to our PAYPAL checkout page where you can complete your pledge submission.
For transparency purposes, all pledgers are asked to allow their identity and the amount pledged to be published on the website along the time and date at the time of the submission.
But remember, the artwork will be given away to the most generous pledger!
Once you submit a pledge of say £20, this converts into 20 tokens. The more tokens you have, the more likely you are to be taking the featured artwork.
Whoever's got the most token by the time the campaign ends (see bottom of the form to find out the date), wins and take the featured artwork home.
It is not possible to increase your pledge once submitted but you can pledge again.
Any new pledge(s) will count towards your total number of tokens so if you pledge 20£ and then £50, you would then have 70 tokens in total. You must use the same details (Name and Email) for each pledge you make for them to add up.
Drawing United will collect the pledges via this website and will make a donation from the chosen charity website.
Donation receipt will be made public via the site and/or social media channels.
We will also, when possible, ask the chosen charity to acknowledge receipt of the donation via their preferred way of doing so.
If the target fails to be hit within the given timeframe, the featured artwork can be bought directly from the Drawing United site. Proceeds to go to the charity
As for your pledges or tokens, they can either be:
- used towards buying the featured artwork
- used as a credit to purchase anything from the Drawing United site such as our print collaborations coming for the Drawing United Collective. A large majority of the proceeds when buying such a print will be given to charity.
- transferred onto another campaign
In the event where two or several people are tied to win the artwork - ie they all pledged the same amount which is the highest across the board, whoever will have submitted his/her pledge first will take the prize.
The campaign needs to hit its target for this to be valid.
An A4 digital print of a 'surprise' artwork will also be won by the 2nd and 3rd highest pledger.
The same 'first pledged, win' rule applies as per the top prize.
Full Terms & conditions below
This campaign supports
Deforestation & greenhouse gases
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The Pledgers so far...
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Laura Jenner2019-12-04 11:08:53£5
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Pierrick Senelaer2019-09-27 21:43:04£10
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Drawing United2019-07-22 19:34:09£1