Nearly 230,000 Trees Planted by ATP in 2015

ATP Planting in Akunk, Kotayk

YEREVAN”“As leaders from 195 nations negotiated a new global climate change agreement in Paris, Armenia Tree Project (ATP) was putting the final touches on another successful year working with volunteers and local residents to plant thousands of trees.

By the end of 2015, another 229,322 trees were planted by ATP, bringing the total to 4,952,642 trees planted since the organization was founded by
Carolyn Mugar in 1994.

An important aspect of this year’s plantings was the sites dedicated to the Living Century Initiative. Ten new community forests were established in honor of the people and places of historic Armenian communities that were lost in the Genocide of 1915. The new forest sites in Kotayk, Lori and
Shirak cover 27 hectares”“nearly 70 acres or an area about the size of 27 European football fields”“and already hold more than 13,000 trees.

ATP’s flagship Community Tree Planting Program greened sites in every region of Armenia including Artsakh. In partnership with residents of the local
community, trees were planted around churches, monuments, parks, schools, and hospitals.

“A core part of our mission is to reduce poverty through planting trees,”