Tree planting donation programmes can sometimes feel like a good deed and good way to reduce carbon emissions. One click, a few pennies and somewhere in a distant region, a tree is planted. However, that the change brought on by your spare change and its impact is tenfold and goes much further than just carbon capture, often remains known. Chiara Stichling, who was writing her masters thesis in the Malizia Mangrove Park, can however testify to the latter.

by Remy Johannsen