Statement
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WeForest was threatened by an anonymous blackmailer with a negative PR campaign about the links between our co-founder Bill Liao and an oil company we were working with, to try to reform that industry.
Ecosia visits their trees
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It’s been more than a year since thanks to your searches we started supporting a tree planting project in Burkina Faso.
Meet Cisero Natercio
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Cisero Natercio is a member of the Landless Workers Movement (Portuguese: Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem Terra, MST), a movement for land reform in Brazil that pushes for secure access to land for rural workers.
Love Nature nursery
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We appreciate each and every one of our supporters and today we want to say a big thanks to Brabantia, our loyal supporter since 2014.
Calling on Trump to uphold Paris climate pact
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Marrakesh, Wednesday: More than 360 mostly American companies and investors, including a dozen Fortune 500 firms, called on Donald Trump to uphold the 196-nation Paris climate pact.
WeForest signs the TFA2020 Marrakesh Declaration at COP22
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We are excited to announce that the Marrakesh Declaration for Sustainable Development of the Oil Palm Sector in Africa, which WeForest supports, was launched today at COP22 in Marrakesh, Morocco.
Meet Elisabeth Zimba
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Elisabeth Zimba is 65 years old but she still manages her 2 hectares of farmland in Luanshya in Zambia’s copperbelt province.
Welcome to Muhundwe Primary School
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In August, our team had the opportunity to visit Muhundwe Primary School in Kinesi, Tanzania, to check up on how they’re progressing with our project.
Making reforestation accessible
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It has long been argued that working alongside local communities creates a more favorable climate for environmental restoration.
Indigenous people play a key role in the climate change agenda
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The latest in a series of carbon mapping reports from the Rights and Resources Initiative, Woods Hole Research Center, and World Resources Institute has quantified the amount of carbon stored in tropical forests.