Ethiopia, Zambia, Malawi and Brussels get together to share solutions to common challenges
As for most organisations, COVID-19 has meant that we haven’t had many chances to get together with our colleagues at WeForest lately. In May, all that changed!
New research on ground-level ozone
At higher levels of Earth’s atmosphere, ozone performs a protective role against harmful UV radiation from the sun. But did you know that increased concentrations of ozone at lower levels of the atmosphere act as a pollutant, posing a threat to human and animal health and plant growth, and contributing to climate change?
The challenges of growing Mulanje cedar
This drone video shows a mature Mulanje cedar, Malawi’s national tree, which is listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
WeForest wins Mother Teresa Memorial Award for Social Justice 2021
WeForest is honoured to have been awarded a 2021 Mother Teresa Memorial Award for Social Justice.
How does forest restoration reduce soil erosion?
Some good news for #WorldSoilDay! This is the same stream before and after passing through one of our restoration sites in Amhara, Ethiopia.
Resilience workshop will provide pointers for restoration success
What happens when a forest suffers so much deforestation or degradation – or suffers so many extreme climate events – that it is no longer a forest?
How does forest restoration alleviate poverty?
Before COVID-19, 1.3 billion people were already living in ‘multidimensional and persistent poverty’. As a result of the pandemic, another 150 million or more are set to join them, according to the UN.
A day to celebrate 1,938,250,000 of us
Did you know that rural women make up a quarter of the world’s population?
Join our Board of Trustees
Would you like the chance to shape the work of WeForest at the highest level and have a direct impact on our ability to deliver our mission?
You’ll only meet these in Mulanje
As well as restoring landscapes and lifting communities out of poverty, our forest restoration projects also play an important role in conserving biodiversity.
