This is the third episode of Climate Brief, an original Ecosia YouTube series. This time: why trees are so important.

On Tuesday, the Ecosia community stepped up and showed what’s possible when we unite behind a common cause.

We’ll use 100% of our profits to fund firefighters in Brazil and plant trees in the US and Australia.

Your trees restore biodiversity all the while promoting better livelihoods for local communities.

We talk to the toilet-buiding toilet paper social business.

In the past 50 years the world has lost about 60% of its original wildlife. Martin and Steve are wildlife patrols in Sumatra, Indonesia, helping protect the last place on Earth where elephants, rhinos and orangutans coexist in the wild.

Stop Ecocide aims to make the most severe and widespread destruction of ecosystems an international crime prosecutable by the International Criminal Court.

Even though we've long known that forests and trees have been threatened, they are still not getting the attention they deserve.

Your trees in Nigeria are providing opportunities for inclusive rural development.

The Terwilliger Fire, in the South Fork McKenzie Basin, was particularly destructive. But help is here.

Google said it would abandon the pay-for-play model in September 2021.

Trees take time to grow, which is why in the first years, we can’t really show you before and after images — the trees are simply too small. But as we wait for the saplings to grow, there are other ways to prove that they are having a positive impact on nature. Don’t miss the video!