Mr Beast pledges to plant 20 million trees by 2020 (Picture: YouTube)

YouTuber MrBeast has taken on a beast of a task and pledged to plant 20 million trees by 1 January 2020.

Taking to social media on Friday evening, 21-year-old Jimmy Donaldson tweeted: ‘GO WATCH MY NEW VIDEO!! IT IS SUPER IMPORTANT!’

Giving everything away to his 25 million YouTube subscribers, his latest video is entitled ‘Planting 20,000,000 Trees, My Biggest Project Ever!’

In the video, he revealed he first tweeted about his goal of planting 20 million trees last month.


He tweeted (but has since deleted) at the time: ‘Attention Oregonians! I need an army to plant trees :)’

And sure enough, hundreds of people showed up in a field to help plant trees alongside the hugely popular YouTube star.



Unfortunately, the team of volunteers only manage to plant less than 2,000 trees over the course of filming.

So MrBeast decided to enlist the help of the largest non-profit tree-planting organisation in the world, Arbor Day Foundation, to help them try to get the tally over the line.

It’s simple: $1 donated (£0.78) = one tree planted.

In just over an hour since the video dropped, the tree fund received over $600,000 (£468,000).

MrBeast pledges to plant 20 million trees by 2020 (Picture: @mrbeast / YouTube)

Within that time frame, fellow YouTubers enthusiastically came out in support of MrBeast’s initiative, pledging to do their own tree-planting.

Brian Awadis (better known as FaZe Rug) tweeted his support for the initiative to his 2.38 million Twitter followers.

He tweeted: ‘Teamed up with @MrBeastYT to have a huge impact in this world!

‘Planting 20,000,000 trees by 2020. GO WATCH THE NEW VIDEO!’

While Tay Zonday (real name Adam Nyerere Bahner) even wrote a song about his pal’s tree-planting mission.

Want to donate? Check out the Team Trees website.

Earlier this year, MrBeast made headlines when he gave away $10,000 (£7,600) simply because it was his birthday.

He also revealed he’s donated over $1 million (£791,000) over his online career.

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