Musk Donates 1 Million Trees to Global Reforestation Campaign

Team Trees campaign seeks to plant 20 million trees by 2022
YouTube has joined the effort and pledged to match donations

Elon Musk
Photographer: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg

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By Melissa Cheok

October 30, 2019 at 8:00 PM UTC

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Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk isn’t just rolling out electric cars, he’s planting trees too.

Musk -- who temporarily changed his Twitter name to “Treelon” -- tweeted that he’d donate money to plant one million trees after some of his followers encouraged him to join an environmental conservation initiative named Team Trees on Tuesday.