Recently I have been on holiday in the United Arab Emirates and I was surprised to see how much they are into trees.
I was having a coffee in one of the Starbucks in Adu Dhabi and my attention was caught by this poster on the Starbucks's wall.
This chain is sponsorizing several projects in order to contrast the global warming.
One of them is called "Plant a Tree" and its aim to plant over 2,000 trees (at least half of them should be Ghaf trees: the national tree of UAE) in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Al Ain by the end of 2016.
I particularly liked the fact that the UAE are mainly a desert area but they are trying to generate green areas out of the sands in order to contrast drought and improve the life style of their communities.
It is also important to mention Goumbook which operates in Dubai.
Not only this organization is involved in the trees' planting of the region but they also promote an economy which protect the environment and they encourage the reduction of the use of plastics.
Here the links that I visited:
http://community.mena.starbucks.com/
http://goumbook.com/about-us/what-is-goumbook.html
http://sustainablemena.com/
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