As well as restoring landscapes and lifting communities out of poverty, our forest restoration projects also play an important role in conserving biodiversity.
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“The Earth is our travel companion”
It’s the International Day for the Conservation of the Mangrove Ecosystem, and planting is in full swing at our project sites in Senegal. With local partner Oceanium, we’re replanting over 7000 hectares of mangroves in the first three-year phase and eventually 16,000 hectares in what’s hoped to become the largest carbon-certified mangrove project in the world. Check out our new Senegal project video!
Continue readingDefending land against desertification and drought
What do you think of when you hear the word ‘desertification’?
Continue readingThe UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration has begun!
Two of WeForest’s projects are among the Founding 50 Initiatives chosen from all around the world by the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, which officially starts tomorrow, World Environment Day.
Continue readingAtlantic Forest Day 2021
This Atlantic Forest Day, meet Cris, WeForest’s Brazil Manager.
Continue readingMangroves projects on Ubani TV
Our mangroves projects with Oceanium – and WeForest’s Senegal Manager Germaine Ebong – appear on online television channel Ubani TV, which is run by young people from the country’s Ziguinchor region.
Support WeForest in saving 23,000 farmers’ families from poverty and starvation
With two million dollars, WeForest can buy enough seeds and material for over 110,000 people so they can plant in May, harvest in November and feed their families for at least a year. This urgent intervention will make a real difference and save 23,000 farmers’ family from further cycles of poverty and starvation.
Continue readingMaking Earth Cooler – narrated by Bryan Adams
A two-minute summary of what WeForest does and why we’re doing it.
Continue reading“One thing we have to do immediately is stop deforestation”
Did you know that water vapour is a greenhouse gas? In this video, scientist George Woodwell shares some surprising insights into global warming, as well as four solutions that we need to pursue right now if we want to combat the climate crisis.
Continue readingRain starts play
It’s the start of the rainy season in Amhara, Ethiopia – which means that planting is starting. In this video Aklilu, WeForest’s Country Director in Ethiopia, presents some of the tree species that the workers are transplanting to the fields – all respecting social distancing, of course.
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