Lucy Fry Instagram – After getting involved in One Earth’s Global Safety Net project, I’ve become even more passionate about one path to solve the climate crisis: protecting natural land. I was inspired to start working with an incredible not-for-profit in my local bio-region, Big Scrub Landcare, to begin a fundraiser to support their ongoing protection and restoration of the critically endangered lowland subtropical rainforest, commonly known in Aus as ‘The Big Scrub.’ So why protect and restore forests? A study completed by Susan Cook-Patton and co-authored by 17 academic and environmental organizations, estimates that worldwide natural forest regrowth could capture in biomass and soils 73 billion tonnes of carbon between now and 2050. That is equal to around seven years of current industrial emissions, making it the ‘single largest climate solution.’ As the arctic sea ice is forming later this year than any on record, it is more urgent than ever for local and individual efforts to magnify now. Please join me in this effort, and click the link in my bio to support Big Scrub Landcare’s ongoing protection and restoration of the critically endangered lowland subtropical rainforest. 💚 I’m going to print this Froggo painting into cards for donations of $50 :) 🐸 more painting incentives to come!