The recent #teamtrees challenge has taken the internet by storm. Now CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, Elon Musk, is joining the challenge with a pledge to donate 1 million trees. That is $1M worth of trees. Here is what is going on.

Popular YouTuber MrBeast, real name Jimmy Donaldson, announced the challenge to plant 20 million trees around the world by 2020. He called out to his fans on Twitter to help him achieve this eco-saving goal. To accomplish this, MrBeast teamed up with Arbour Day Foundation – the biggest tree-planting organization in the world. For every $1 donated, the Arbour Day Foundation will plant one tree “in a forest of high need around the globe.”

Elon Musk joins #teamtrees

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Replying to MrBeast on Twitter, Elon Musk asked about the mission and what kind of trees #teamtrees is planting.

Sounds cool. Where are the trees being planted & what kind of trees? — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 28, 2019

To that, popular tech YouTuber MKBHD replies, explaining him how the challenge works, including a link to the teamtrees.org website. MKBHD has interviewed Elon Musk before at his factory, as is a known “Twitter associate” of the eccentric billionaire.

Ok, sounds legit, will donate 1M trees — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 29, 2019

This is where Elon Musk announces that he will also donate 1 million trees, which is $1 million! That would make him the highest donor among the #teamtrees challenge until now, followed by MrBeast himself at 100,002 trees. Elon Musk donation would trump that by 10x. It will be interesting to see if anyone else could top that donation to help save forests worldwide!

Progress so far

Until now, a total of almost 6.4M trees have been planted via the #teamtrees challenge! If we include Elon Musk’s soon-to-come contribution, that would equal 7.4M+ trees. With the rate of the #teamtrees challenge going viral, there is no doubt that MrBeast and the Arbour Day Foundation will reach their 20M goal in no time.

The way our world is today, it’s wonderful that so many people in this YouTube community really care… If ever there’s been a time to plant trees, now is that time. Woody Nelson, Arbor Day Foundation

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Source: BBC

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