Reforestation is one key to keeping nature in balance. Under the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI)^SM program, companies plant or grow more trees than are harvested each year. In fact, over 1 million acres are reforested each year under the SFI^SM program.

Thanks to hard work by the men and women working in our forests, we now have more forests today than we did on the very first Earth Day in 1970.

Each year, the forest community plants 1.5 billion tree seedlings in the United States — that’s more than 5 new trees for each American.

Alpha Services since its inception has planted thousands of acres all over the United States. With an average of 60 to 70 thousand acres per year Alpha Services has been a significant contributor to the reforestation cause.

Alpha Services plans to plant over 100,000 acres in 2011

·        The world’s forest cover amounts to 3.9 billion hectares (1 hectare equals approximately 2.5 acres).

·        Two thirds of the world’s forests are located in ten countries: the Russian Federation, Brazil, Canada, the United States, China, Australia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Indonesia, Angola and Peru.

·        Only 2 % of the world’s forests, or 81 million hectares, are certified as being managed in a sustainable manner.