African People & Wildlife

Trees as a human-wildlife conflict prevention strategy in Tanzania.

The project will create Living Walls for 51 new households in northern Tanzania, which involves growing 7,463 trees. Living Walls are environmentally friendly corrals that keep livestock safe for rural families in northern Tanzania. They are built by growing a circle of Commiphora trees to serve as posts for chain link fencing. As the trees grow, they add height to the wall and create an impenetrable barrier. Living Walls prevent livestock attacks by large carnivores with a 99% success rate.

Eden Reforestation Projects

Planting Trees and Alleviating Extreme Poverty (Kenya & Madagascar)

The growing of 150,000 trees by Eden Reforestation Projects will provide income and food security to alleviate local poverty. 

Green Again Madagascar

Community-based forest restoration in eastern Madagascar

Critical work restoring 5,714 trees to one of the most biodiverse tropical rainforest in the world with a method that uses fewer trees to stimulate natural forest regeneration and minimizes damage from wildfires.

Sankandi Youth Development Association

Community Mangrove Conservation and Restoration (The Gambia)

The project will restore 100,000 mangrove trees. This project will contribute to the alleviation of poverty in rural areas of Gambia, contribute to the improvement of health and social-economic conditions in vulnerable groups of the community as well as to promote sustainable development initiatives, creativity, self-reliance and responsibility in the community. This will be achieved through enhancing and restoring areas of mangrove forest that have suffered degradation and removal over the past three decades. Mangrove restoration will bring enhanced ecosystem services (such as fisheries) and we will also work to establish mangrove-related small enterprises. 

Fauna & Flora International

Restoring Fruit and Nut Forests for Climate Change Resilience (Tajikistan)

Fauna & Flora International will partner with Tajikistan’s government forestry services to grow 43,182 native fruit and nut trees. These crops play an important role in regional economic generation and erosion and landslide prevention.

Trees4Trees

Growing Trees in Community Forests (Indonesia)

This project will grow 14,250 trees in community forests. We produce seedlings of high value tree species which are distributed to local farming families along with education on best forestry practices and ongoing monitoring and support. The trees help the environment and become an important component of the farmer’s livelihood. 

Perennial Agriculture Institute

Vegetable Tree Crops

The project has two components. First, a guide to trees with edible leaves, and second, distribution of free seeds of vegetable trees to development projects throughout Central America and the Caribbean.

Bosque de Niebla A.C.

Restoring tropical forests with Kichwa communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon

This project will establish 36,000 trees of inga alley cropping, an agricultural system with fast-growing nitrogen-fixing trees that allow carbon sequestration in both above-ground biomass and soil.  Current conventional treeless farming systems have caused soil degradation and created dependence on expensive and polluting inputs. This system also produces staple foods , and essential resources needed to cover a family’s annual consumption. 

DESPRI Haiti

Forest Conservation & Reforestation (Southwest Haiti)

DESPRI Haiti will protect Pine National Park from deforestation and grow 24,490 new trees. 

Moringa Reforestation (Northwest Haiti)

DESPRI Haiti will grow 16,327 Moringa trees, a fast growing, drought-resistant fruit tree that will provide food, medicine, and water purification as well as help income security for local  women’s self-help groups.

Green Forests Work

Restoration of lands that were previously surface mined for coal (USA)

This project will restore 4,000 trees including red spruce habitat along the Allegheny Front, extending from West Virginia into Pennsylvania, and shortleaf pine-upland oak restoration in the Cumberland Plateau region of Kentucky and Tennessee. Many surface mined lands were excessively compacted and revegetated with non-native plants during reclamation, which hinders the regeneration of native forest types. 

Inga Foundation

The introduction and extension of a proven and sustainable alternative to slash-and-burn in the world’s rainforests (Honduras)

Inga Alley Cropping 11,000 trees for food security, cash crops and timber crops in Honduras.

Mangrove Action Project

Conserving and restoring the 2,000 ha mangrove forest area around Jiquilisco Bay, El Salvador.

Community-Based Ecological Mangrove Restoration (CBEMR) approach is catalytic for offsetting the risks within mangrove planting by changing hydrology and the root causes of deforestation.

The Greening of Detroit

Reforesting Detroit to Improve Watershed Quality (USA)

The black and latinx led organization, The Greening of Detroit, will plant 87 trees to expand canopy cover and watershed restoration in Detroit, directly combating the dangers of urban heat island effect.

Trees That Feed People

Growing 1,000,000 trees in the Caribbean

This project will grow 3,750 trees in 12 Caribbean countries. The mission is growing fruit trees to feed people, create jobs and benefit the environment. 

Tribal Eco Restoration Alliance (TERA)

TERA Workforce Development support (USA)

TERA works to revitalize ecology, economy, and culture through indigenous-led stewardship. This is a catalytic project providing general operating support that will allow TERA as a young organization in a rural and socioeconomically disadvantaged area to build the foundation for its on-the-job training program in 2021 and beyond. The TERA workforce focuses on ecological restoration services including oak woodland restoration, cultural burning to restore forest health and reforestation projects.

CIPAV- Center for Research on Agricultural Production Systems

Native multipurpose trees for silvopastoral systems in Colombia

This project will focus on growing 1,515 multipurpose native trees that can enhance soil quality in degraded and compacted grazing land. We will also grow a variety of native timber trees, other nitrogen fixing species, fruit trees and native palms that can provide edible fruits for the cattle.