Healthy forests, healthy people
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Forests are essential to the well-being of present and future generations.
“Conservationists assist a forest reserve in Zambia to regrow itself“
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Our Katanino project is the focus of an article in Mongabay, the nonprofit environmental science and conservation news platform, today.
Our favourite trees: Araucaria species
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It’s summer in the Atlantic Forest. As thousands of birds, animals and insects begin their nightshift, an ancient Araucaria angustifolia pierces the skies above. Its evergreen limbs offer year-round shelter to wildlife below, stretching as high as 40 metres in a perfect star-shaped symmetry that remains unchanged for over 250 million years.
How can we make the Great Green Wall a reality?
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How do we bring the desert to life again?
Thanks to you, amazing things happened this year!
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Over 9600 hectares were restored during 2022 – that’s almost 13.5 million trees.
NASA lands in our Senegal project sites
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Our restoration sites in Senegal had some very special visitors in August!
Offsetting our way out of the climate crisis isn’t possible or credible
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John Oliver’s sketch, aired last week, threw a comic light on the world of carbon offsets; some criticisms of which we agree with. While it threw into doubt the validity of carbon offsets and claims, it also potentially damaged the credibility of any corporate climate action. And that’s not helpful.
No-one sits at home during planting season!
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We’ve had some good rains in Desa’a this year, and planting is starting again.
First planting in Gewocha!
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Here, project manager Adamu is shown kicking off the first planting in the new Gewocha Forest project with a demonstration.
Women at the helm of restoring cedar
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The Mount Mulanje project appeared on Malawi’s MBC News, the state’s biggest broadcaster, last week.