Tree Planting Search-Engine Projects
Ecosia Plants Trees for Internet Search Initiatives
Glenn Mandel — June 2, 2021
Ecosia is a search engine that plants trees and it has begun its largest tree-planting project in the U.S, as the company ramps up its focus on US-based environmental initiatives. Tree-planting started after the Terwilliger Fire at the Willamette National Forest in Oregon. Notably, 13,000 trees are being planted over the course of this reforestation project. Accounting for normal rates of survival, Ecosia expects that 9,750 of these trees will still be growing after three years.
Ecosia is an ethical tech and not-for-profit search engine that aims to tackle the climate crisis by planting and protecting trees across the globe. Now the fifth largest search engine in the U.S, Ecosia is rapidly adding new users and planting trees. For every 45 searches, Ecosia plants a tree, and it has now planted over 125 million trees across 9,000 planting sites worldwide. At the current rate, a new tree is planted every 1.3 seconds.
