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In Rural Western Uganda, A Tree-Planting Initiative Shows Signs of Life

Kang-Chun Cheng

April 15, 2024 |

The Xylom |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Uganda

Ecosia, a nonprofit search engine that uses it’s profits to support tree-plantnig initiatives, is working with the Jane Goodall Institute Austria to grow 200,000 trees in Uganda. The organizations work with communities to design the projects around their needs, then support locals through the process of growing trees.

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How to Revive a Burned Forest? Rebuild the Tree Supply Chain

Lydia DePillis

April 04, 2024 |

The New York Times |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

Mast Reforestation sells carbon credits to fund its work replanting trees where forests were decimated by wildfires. The company collects seeds from local, native trees, uses x-ray machines to ensure they are likely to sprout, and plants them.

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Piplantri, ce village d'Inde qui plante des arbres pour envoyer ses filles à l'école

Robin Tutenges

January 09, 2024 |

Slate |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: India, Piplantri, Rajasthan

Quand une fille est naît dans le village de Piplantri, les habitants plantent 111 arbres et déposent de l’argent sur un compte bancaire qui ne peut pas être touché jusqu’à ce qu’elle a ses 18 ans, lorsqu’il peut être utilisé pour ses études ou pour payer les frais de mariage, mais seulement si elle reste à l’école jusque-là. Le programme a permis de créer des emplois à l’école et dans l’entretien de la nouvelle forêt. Aucune des filles nées depuis le début de l’initiative n’a été forcée de se marier au détriment de son éducation, et le village a planté plus de 500 000 arbres.

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One of Europe's Most Endangered Birds Is Bouncing Back

Anne Pinto-Rodrigues

September 14, 2023 |

Smithsonian |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Portugal, São Miguel Island

For two decades, the Portuguese Society for the Study of Birds has restored native trees on São Miguel Island to increase the food and nesting habitat available for the Azores bullfinch. As a result, the population of the bird increased enough to be downlisted from critically endangered to vulnerable.

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Nursing oil palm plantations back to nature in Malaysian Borneo

Louise Hunt

July 26, 2023 |

Mongabay |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Malaysia

In October 2020, the Rhino and Forest Fund in Malaysian Borneo began to buy land once cleared for oil palm plantations, and reforests and rehabilitates the tracts into wildlife corridors. After replanting 40 tree species in the last 3 years, an increase in several threatened species has been documented traveling through the project sites.

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New Tree Tech: Cutting-edge drones give reforestation a helping hand

Claire Asher

July 12, 2023 |

Mongabay |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

Using drones to drop seeds is becoming a valid option to increase the scale and efficiency of tree-planting projects, especially in locations that are difficult for humans to reach. Seattle-based Mast Reforestation drops seeds in fire-ravaged areas with massive, custom-designed drones, and Australia’s AirSeed Technologies does so with a team of drones that don’t need human supervisors.

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Seeds of hope: the charity helping to replant Peru's rainforest

Laura Joffre

July 04, 2023 |

Pioneers Post |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Peru

Plant Your Future is working with Peruvian farmers to reforest the Amazon rainforest by helping them earn an income while growing trees instead of doing so by cutting trees down. The charity does outreach, teaches farmers about agroforestry, intercropping, and the carbon market, and then supports them throughout the transition to those practices.

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Once cold, now too hot: Efforts to cut rising temperature in Nigeria's plateau intensifies

Patrick Obia

July 04, 2023 |

Prime Progress |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Nigeria, Obanliku, Cross River

The nonprofit Africa Research Association Managing Development teaches communities in Obanliku, Nigeria, to run their own businesses in things like gardening, soap making, and marketing, and helps establish cocoa cooperatives to keep them from depending on deforestation for income. The program also requires communities to designate parts of the forest for conservation and trains members to protect those areas.

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Resource-rich countries find it pays to pay landholders to protect their land

Dimitri Selibas

May 11, 2023 |

Ensia |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Guatemala

Guatemala’s reforestation programs pay farmers to keep their lands forested instead of clearing them for farming. The annual $380 payment each participant receives for 5 to 10 years comes from the general taxes collected by the government.

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A Philippine town and its leaders show how mangrove restoration can succeed

Mavic Conde

May 04, 2023 |

Mongabay |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Philippines, Prieto Diaz

With support from the local government, a community-based program in the Philippines trains residents in mangrove reforestation, then teaches them how to sustainably manage the marine ecosystem. The program also helps them find livelihoods that don’t involve cutting the mangroves down.

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