I love my home country Madagascar more than any other place in earth. It is the fourth-largest island in the world, and is home to 5% of the world’s plant and animal species, of which more than 80% of which are found nowhere else on Earth.

Every year in this Island country, two hundred thousand acre of forest is lost because of slash-and-burn agriculture, logging, and the production of fuelwood and charcoal for cooking fires… and the damage on the environment is irreparable.

Vakan'ala, a non-profit organization based in Madagascar take actions using ICT tools and social media to raise awareness on this issue. The organisation is part of an amazing tournament, the first online social giving tournament to support an environmental cause sponsored by ebay and named ebay tournament for the environement.

After reading this note, in few clicks you can help grow trees in Madagascar and make difference. Individuals like you and me - via  Himanitycall.org - have the possibility to drive-up the tournament cash pool through contributions, vote and help engage others through your Facebook and Twitter page and help the only malagasy organisation at the tournament to win.

There is a Controversial list about the importance of casting a vote. I simply believe on today amazing possibility for a solitary vote from every one of us  to change the world and improve lives of millions people in Madagascar by simply planting trees.

The UNEP (UNEP) in partnership with Treehugger ask bloggers to write a blog post about"The importance of individual action to celebrate World Environment Day, and how individual actions when multiplied can make a difference to the planet" Please vote for Vakan'Ala in the eBay Tournament for the Environment. The first vote is free and represent fifteen trees for Vakan'ala. Please share this link --> http://bit.ly/cNFYnU #HumanityCalls, and make difference.

This year 2010 is the International year of Biodiversity, the online community from around the world have the possibility to help Vakan’ala  to preserve the remaining fragment of primary forest in Madagascar and the biodiversity they contain. Vakan'Ala can restore missing forest and endemic tree species while takinginto consideration the needs of Malagasy rural people leaving near primary forest with less than 1 dollar a day.

It's sounds like a dream but you have the power to make it real if you give your vote to Vakan'ala

Malagasy blogger Andriankoto Ratozamanana decided he needed to do more than type to improve the standard of living and reforest in Madagascar. He is part of http://www.vakanala.org team, an NGO which contributes to harnessing natural resources of the planet and ameliorating exploited habitats.