<p style="text-align:justify;"><span>Bangkok</span><span>, 16<div>th</div> July 2008 – PATT Foundation’s forest restoration project at a wildlife rehabilitation centre in Phetchaburi, Thailand, will undergo its first tree planting event. S</span><span>chool children, monks, governmental officers, local villagers, PATT and wildlife centre staff will all get their hands dirty and help plant over 2,500 trees during the first of many planned planting events to be held at this site.</span></p> <p style="text-align:left;" align="left"><span>The restored forest area that will eventuate from the newly planted trees will provide habitat for local wildlife and animals being rehabilitated at the adjacent wildlife centre. The site will also be used as an educational resource for visiting school groups and other interested parties.</span></p> <p style="text-align:left;" align="left"><span><p> The 2,500 trees were grown onsite in a purpose built nursery and form part of a long term project funded by UAP Ltd, a prominent UK based specialist supplier of Decorative Door Hardware and related products. UAP has committed to offsetting its carbon footprint by funding the planting of 50,000 trees in this 3 year project with PATT.</p><p>The project began mid 2007 with research on the local forest ecology and identification of important species which when planted will assist natural regeneration of the local forest.</p></span></p> <p style="text-align:left;" align="left"><span> A </span><span>phenology trail has been established to aid seed collection year round and collect data on potential framework species. The forest is a seasonally dry lowland deciduous tropical forest. </span></p> <p style="text-align:left;" align="left"><span><p>A forest, degraded by selective logging, is being restored by planting essential native tree species to facilitate the natural regeneration of the forest. The aim is to use the forest as a gibbon rehabilitation area providing semi-natural conditions in the last step before the animals are released back into the wild. A tree nursery has already been established to initiate and expand the project over time and gain experience and research data to assist with propagation of the key tree species. </p></span></p> <p style="text-align:left;" align="left"><span>You can find out more about the project here: www.plant-a-tree-today.org/uap </span></p>

Bangkok, 16

July 2008 – PATT Foundation’s forest restoration project at a wildlife rehabilitation centre in Phetchaburi, Thailand, will undergo its first tree planting event. School children, monks, governmental officers, local villagers, PATT and wildlife centre staff will all get their hands dirty and help plant over 2,500 trees during the first of many planned planting events to be held at this site.

The restored forest area that will eventuate from the newly planted trees will provide habitat for local wildlife and animals being rehabilitated at the adjacent wildlife centre. The site will also be used as an educational resource for visiting school groups and other interested parties.

 The 2,500 trees were grown onsite in a purpose built nursery and form part of a long term project funded by UAP Ltd, a prominent UK based specialist supplier of Decorative Door Hardware and related products. UAP has committed to offsetting its carbon footprint by funding the planting of 50,000 trees in this 3 year project with PATT.

The project began mid 2007 with research on the local forest ecology and identification of important species which when planted will assist natural regeneration of the local forest.

A phenology trail has been established to aid seed collection year round and collect data on potential framework species. The forest is a seasonally dry lowland deciduous tropical forest.

A forest, degraded by selective logging, is being restored by planting essential native tree species to facilitate the natural regeneration of the forest. The aim is to use the forest as a gibbon rehabilitation area providing semi-natural conditions in the last step before the animals are released back into the wild. A tree nursery has already been established to initiate and expand the project over time and gain experience and research data to assist with propagation of the key tree species.

You can find out more about the project here: www.plant-a-tree-today.org/uap