We're on a mission to plant trees and empower environmental stewards across Sub-Saharan Africa. Through our Forests for Life programme, we form long-term partnerships with small-scale organisations, provide support to plant trees, restore forest & woodland habitats, protect catchment areas, and improve the lives of communities that rely on precious forest resources. We've been restoring forests since 2011, with over 257,122 trees planted and 356,000 people involved. Join the TREEvolution!
"Deforestation and forest degradation continue to take place at alarming rates. [...] In absolute terms, global forest area decreased by 178 million hectares between 1990 and 2020, which is an area about the size of Libya." FAO & UNEP, 2020 STATE OF THE WORLD'S FORESTS REPORT. Forests provide vital services to both people and the planet, bolstering livelihoods, providing clean air and water, conserving biodiversity and responding to climate change. But hope is not lost.
We focus on long-term, hands-on relationships to support the protection and restoration of indigenous systems. In addition to putting trees in the ground, we reduce threats to restored areas by providing locally relevant, project-specific support services. Each tree planted comes with complementary activities, including alien clearing, forest by-law development, catchment management and erosion control, climate change adaptation, and alternative livelihoods training.
As a South African organisation, we are acutely aware of the complex challenges associated with indigenous forest management in Sub-Saharan Africa. As such, we design our projects with a pro-community stance that recognises the local threats to reforestation success, identifies local community needs, and incorporates solutions that benefit both forests and people. In the long term, forest ecosystems are also important to gender equality, providing essential resources for women's livelihoods.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
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