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3 reasons to register at no cost to you;
* Free registration will compensate for your flight & car carbon emissions, on a return trip to Spain, regardless of who you book with. Upon registration, below, we will plant a tree for you that will more than compensate for the carbon emissions on a return trip to Spain including car hire usage.(More info below)
* Registration automatically then helps communities, in the developing world, with our Plant a Tree for Free programme.
* Regular automatic entry to our Free Prize Draws, which includes accommodation, when you opt to receive our email newsletter.
Link here to see current Free Prize Draw Link here to see terms and conditions of Free Prize Draw
3 reasons to register at no cost to you;
* Free registration will compensate for your flight & car carbon emissions, on a return trip to Spain, regardless of who you book with. Upon registration, below, we will plant a tree for you that will more than compensate for the carbon emissions on a return trip to Spain including car hire usage.(More info below)
* Registration automatically then helps communities, in the developing world, with our Plant a Tree for Free programme.
* Regular automatic entry to our Free Prize Draws, which includes accommodation, when you opt to receive our email newsletter.
Link here to see current Free Prize Draw Link here to see terms and conditions of Free Prize Draw
VillaSPAIN PLANT A TREE PROGRAMME FOR CARBON DIOXIDE (CO2) OFFSETTING FOR FREE
Should you choose to book a villa with us then we will plant a tree for each and every holidaymaker on the booking form. This planting programme is designed to compensate for all the CO2 carbon emissions that will be expended from the combined travelling incurred by all members in your party. It therefore includes the return flights and car hire usage during the entire holiday vacation (including children and babies). This is at no cost whatsoever to you, or your fellow travellers.Whilst at Villaspain we do not sell flights or car hire, though do have links to both on our website to help facilitate the making-up of your independent package at the most reasonable rates, do wish to help restore the balance of CO2, and at the same time assist with the associated programmes of tree planting in developing countries.
Examples of CO2 emissions when travelling to Alicante Spain from the UK are shown below, according to calculations by the CarbonNeutral Company;
London to Alicante return flight 1,763 miles = 0.4 tons of CO2
Glasgow to Alicante return flight 2,472 miles = 0.5 tons of CO2
Car hire 300 miles (based on a 4 door 2 ltr petrol car, with 2 sharing) = 0.05 tons of CO2.
A single person will therefore contribute approximately 0.50 (½) ton of CO2 in total for the transport involved for their return flight and car hire usage within Spain.
A single tree will absorb approximately 0.71 tons of CO2 over its lifetime, so our programme will more than compensate for the ½ ton of CO2 each person will expend when travelling.
Click here for more info on how tree help the planet.
Simply book any villa at anytime and complete our booking form in the normal way. We will then automatically allocate a tree for every person (including each child and baby) included on the booking form (see clickmeter which records the allocation on top of the homepage and above). In most cases the trees will have been planted by the time you fly, since the allocation and expenditure occurs at the time of booking and not your flight departure date.
Planting of the one-year-old healthy saplings is conducted independently by an accredited non profit-making tree-planting charity specialising in agroforestry throughout the developing world, where it is most needed in bringing social and economic benefits to the local communities.
These trees used in agroforestry and reforestation techniques will help to restore the natural resources of rural farmers' degraded lands. The fast-growing trees will offer the farmer food, fodder and fuel, as well as land stability and fertilizer.
Updates to our website will occur periodically.
The click meter above shows how many trees we have committed to buy, which increases on every booking.
Example of TFTF's activity in Cameroon:In August 2007, Cameroon Program Coordinator, Corrie Mauldin, went to evaluate the Cameroon Program and give hands-on technical training to NGOs in the Southwest, West and Northwest Provinces. Our training team included Mr. Nkembi, TFTF Cameroon Field Representative and Director of the Environment and Rural Development Foundation (ERuDeF), Robin Achah, ERuDef botanist, and Ms. Mauldin. Our team conducted workshops with 145 farmers and 30 agricultural/ environmental/ rural development NGOs interested in tree-planting.
Representatives from local farmer groups plant Cajanus cajan in a cassava field near Buea
About the Philippine villages:
This is a program in the Province of Zambales, about 200 km. north of Manila along the south China Sea. The town where the program is centered is Botolan and the village there, where your trees are bring planted is called Maguisguis. It has a population of about 220 families. All of the people there and in the surrounding area were evacuated in 1992 with the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo and they are gradually returning and trying to restore their way of life. VillaSpain have been asked by TFTF to help them develop a sustainable livelihood which would include returning tree cover and eventually forests to the now-barren lands.
TFTF are helping them plant multi-purpose, fast-growing trees to protect and restore the soils and build the water-retention capability of the land. With that we are incorporating fruit trees and also cashew, which is growing extremely fast in those uplands. Among the fruit trees we are trying to bring back a local species, locally called "duhat" which has a small, dark red and very sour fruit. It has been considered endangered since the volcano erupted.
