Ginkgo Music creates projects linking music & ecology to halt deforestation worldwide. About us: Our mission To halt deforestation by 2015 and protect the biodiversity of ancient forest habitats forever, involving musicians and ecologists in a global team raising money and public understanding. Forest ecosystems under threat Ancient forests, home to most of the planet's 800 million plant and animal species, are disappearing at an alarming rate. Once gone, they're gone forever - primaeval or 'old-growth' forest habitats can never be recreated because they are so complex, and still mostly unknown. Who are we? Ginkgo Music is a not-for-profit organisation set up by a group of people from various backgrounds, including biology, music, art and design, sport, charity and business. We share a passion: the extraordinary and colourful range of life inhabiting this planet. Why 'Ginkgo'? As the oldest tree species on Earth, the ginkgo tree represents the survival of a plant species against all odds. Its fan shaped leaves first unfurled over 200 million years ago, before dinosaurs and flowering plants appeared, and it's still here.