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We are taking part in the Big Give Christmas Challenge 2021, where you can double your donation and plant more trees in Kenya’s Saiwa National Park wetlands.

Over the last year, 300 women have been trained on grafting and growing fruit trees which are being planted in their local communities, providing them with an income while also reducing the pressure on the ancient forest.

There are big commitments being made at COP26. But we are proud to be working with communities to do something concrete for the environment.

By promoting women’s participation, individuals will benefit from their focus on encouraging others and utilising the environment to improve livelihoods.

Gloria Uwizeyimana has joined ITF on an internship thanks to the Mastercard Foundation. Today, she shares her experience growing up in Rwanda and how her education and scholarships have opened up opportunities that she never dreamed of.

In Kenya, there are 1,100 native tree species, of which 10% are threatened with extinction. We are working with the communities and partners to ensure that none of Kenya’s tree species become extinct.

Last month, the Woodland Trust published a landmark report, State of the UK’s Woods and Trees 2021. In it, the state of our native trees is laid bare.

ÂÜÀòÉç has been supported on our mission to plant trees by countless volunteers who gift us their time because they are passionate about reforesting the planet. Much of what we do would not be possible without their generosity.

For Mental Health Awareness Week our team have been sharing what trees mean to them and how connecting with nature has helped them, especially during the pandemic.

This International Day of Forests, Ricardo, ITF’s Programmes Manager, shares how forests and rural communities depend on each other for wellbeing.

The question for this article is how? How do we ensure gender equality and equal rights to resources are designed into these large scale restoration programmes?

The project is a wonderful practical way of supporting women, of educating women and giving them the opportunity to experience empowerment.

Trees feed my soul. Trees speak to me, no not in words but in feelings.

One unintended consequence of the pandemic will be that when our attention turns to COP26 and the climate crisis, we won’t have had the time to forget that when faced with a threat of global magnitude, governments, businesses and civil society can achieve what was once thought farfetched.

At Christmas time last year we raised money for our good friend Noormichuki, and her tree planting project in the Mara, Kenya. As one of the first woman tree planters of this region, we were incredibly excited to support her in setting up new seedling nurseries and train other women in her community.

If we can raise £20,000, WWANC will create three new fruit tree nurseries, and plant 15,000 fruit trees to strengthen livelihoods and reduce pressure on the forest.

Denise Amador Bittencourt, Biologist, Ecologist and Educator writes about different initiatives in Brazil, related to communities and agroforestry, some challenges, positive news and a vision for the future.

To understand how to restore ecosystems across the world, we need vast quantities of data and sophisticated machine learning tools. But this isn’t enough.

An article by Alistair Pask, Ph.D., Founder of Reforest and Director of Reforest Tea. Reforest has supported the work of the ÂÜÀòÉç in sub-Saharan Africa since mid-2019. This article describes his journey from 2015 to the present day.