The cork tree it is one of the most highly renewable and eco-friendly resources on the planet. In fact, harvesting the cork tree helps fight global warming.  How you ask?  All trees are eco-friendly because of respiration.  Tree respiration is the process of a tree taking in carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen. The amount of carbon dioxide being held by the tree is called carbon sequestration.  The trees sequesters carbon dioxide and stores it in their trunks, branches, leaves, roots, and bark.

The Life of a Cork Tree – The first cork bark harvest occurs approximately after 20 to 25 years. The cork tree fully regenerates its bark in 9 year, and the tree will live about 200 years.  Two new saplings are planted when the tree dies. Planting two saplings to replace one dead tree ensures the cork forest continues to flourish and expand.