My Experience in the Miombo Forests
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Matthew Blair, the “Rusty Mokoro”, is a videographer and Livelihoods Restoration Consultant, with a background in community development. Here he shares his experience when filming the latest videos of WeForest’s restoration projects in Luanshya and Katanino, Zambia.
World Environment Day – June 5th
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It’s Time for Nature.
World Environment Day – Biodiversity and Forest Products
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Today, 5th June, is Environment Day.
Forest-friendly businesses in Zambia
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50 years ago over 80% of Zambia was forest…
Keeping safe at WeForest during the Covid-19 pandemic
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As our mission to ‘Make Earth Cooler’ through restoring forests continues, we are working to ensure our staff and colleagues remain safe and healthy. Now more than ever we are reminded just how closely our own health and well-being is connected to nature.
How technology can fight deforestation
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WeForest CEO and co-founder Marie-Noelle Keijzer was contacted by The Hindu Times to talk about the technology that addresses climate change.
“You don’t want to compare a new tree with an existing tree or an existing forest”
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“The number one priority is to protect what we have,” WeForest CEO Marie-Noëlle Keijzer told digital science Magazine Undark.
“WeForest is among the most effective climate protectors we have”
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“The climate crisis is an acute danger,” says the German radio station radioeins. “We live in the hottest decade since weather records began. And we all contribute to it. In almost everything we do, we release greenhouse gases directly or indirectly. And so gradually destroy our own habitats. We must work urgently to lessen our CO2 emissions. At the same time, however, it is important to ensure more CO2 can be stored.”
Building Capacity on Forests and Water
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A collaboration between FAO and WeForest
Did you think we could transform entire landscapes in just 10 years?
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In the village of Kinesi in Tanzania, distributing trees makes a real difference for the community as well as for the environment.