Trees for Life is thrilled to announce a new partnership with the 407 ETR that will result in 20,000 trees planted in the fall of 2024. 

In September of 2022, the 407 ETR Highway Corridor Biodiversity Project was launched.  Its objective is to revolutionize the 407’s vegetation management approach and to develop a healthy, ecologically sustainable, and biodiverse landscape running through the heart of the Greater Toronto Area. The project seeks to eradicate invasive plant species and increase the number of native plants (including trees), growing within and adjacent to the 407’s 108 km corridor.

Here at Trees For Life our #1 goal is to plant trees where Canadians live, work and play.”

We believe that the trees that benefit humans most are planted among us… or, maybe we live among the trees? In either case, you get the point.

Your donation works in mysterious ways.  In this newsletter you’ll read about a valued member of the Trees for Life team who grows trees for a living, is vice-chair of our charity and wanted to give back in a seriously big way.

When Rebecca read TFL Executive Director Mike Hurley’s story about his cancer journey, she joined The Acorns – the crew running and raising funds for TFL this October in the TCS Toronto Waterfront Marathon and 5K. 

Not only is Rebecca a long-time runner, but she is also the daughter of Tony DiGiovanni, (co-founder of TFL), and a Staff Physician, General Internal Medicine, at Toronto’s Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. Rebecca sees her fair share of health challenges in her role, but Mike’s story deeply touched her.