Disney goes green

The Walt Disney Co. has promised to spend $7 million on conservation projects in an effort to help fight climate change.

Disney has partnered with three conservation groups—Conservation International, Nature Conservancy and Conservation Fund—promising to spend the money on planting trees and setting aside forest lands for protection against logging, reported The Associated Press.

The conservation groups will undertake projects to plant $2 million worth of trees on 2,000 acres of former forest land in the Mississippi Valley. The rest of the funds will go toward projects to protect forest land in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Amazon Basin-area of Peru and California’s north coast.

“Protecting forests is one of our most powerful tools in the fight against climate change,” Mark Tercek, Nature Conservancy president, said in a statement.