Answer:

Where are your projects and why have you chosen them specifically?

Two of the launch projects are in Brazil and one in Ecuador. The reason for choosing these areas is threefold:

These areas are of paramount importance for their biodiversity but are threatened by human activities such as logging, cattle ranching and clearance for agriculture etc. These threats need to be countered if the carbon in these endangered habitats is to remain locked up.

Their location and/or conservation helps secure tens of thousands of acres of forest behind them ensuring our sponsors are protecting far more than their sponsored acres.

They are mature rainforests with uniquely high levels of biodiversity reflecting thousands of years of undisturbed growth, wildlife and species - they deserve to be left this way.

Answer:

How big is an acre?

An acre is just over 40,000 square feet.

Put another way, its a car park with 200 spaces, half a football pitch or 15 tennis courts.

Traditionally, an acre is the area an ox can plough in a day (or rather a morning since refuelling took up the afternoon).

Answer:

How much carbon do rainforests lock up?

Each acre of rainforest locks in more than 100 tonnes of carbon. If an acre is burnt, this results in up to 260 tonnes of carbon dioxide or CO2 emissions.

Each year the destruction of rainforests releases more climate-warming CO2 than the entire USA.

Answer:

Where are the rainforests?

Rainforest covers 6% of the earth's land surface. They are concentrated in tropical regions, but extend as far north as Canada and as far south as Chile. It's the tropical rainforest - in the Amazon, in Central Africa and in South East Asia - that's most at risk. Each year, 50 million acres - an area the size of Britain - are cut down, emitting around 6 billion tonnes of CO2.