10% of Kenya's native tree species are threatened with extinction. Together, with Botanic Garden Conservation International we are working with communities and partners to ensure that none of Kenya’s tree species become extinct.

Discover how we're supporting a community in Truro, Cornwall to boost mental health and wellbeing through tree planting.

This International Day for Biological Diversity, we are celebrating all life on earth, from microorganisms, to plant and animal life.

We partnered with Kitui Development Centre (KDC), a women-led Community Based Organisation, to restore the degraded landscape in Kitui County, Kenya and reduce the adverse effects of climate change on the community.

We celebrated Earth Day 2022 by planting trees young school going children in Kitui County, Kenya.

We’re working with Environment and Agroforestry Foundation (EAF) to promote the conservation and restoration of the riparian forests within the Black Volta Basin catchment areas in Northwest Ghana.

Through training on agroforestry and alternative land restoration techniques, this project is supporting communities in Katavi, Western Tanzania to build resilient and sustainable futures.

Learn how we're with with our local partner Karambi Group of People with Disabilities, to empower local communities in Western Uganda through food forestry.

To celebrate International Women’s Day we joined with community members and students at a school tree planting event in Masaka District, Uganda.

The Trees for Livelihoods project seeks to restore Kakamega forest whilst promoting women’s participation and inclusion in sustainable community development projects. 

In Burford, West Oxfordshire, our partner, Nature and Nurture is inspiring and mobilising local community groups to protect, enhance and restore their local landscape.

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.

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.

On this day, we’d be planting a native hedge – 60 bare-root saplings of Beech, Hornbeam, Hazel, Hawthorn, Blackthorn and Wayfaring Tree.

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

Join us on the first day of the Worcester Walk Community Project's landscape restoration journey, as we plant a continuous native hedge to protect the rare semi-wooded pasture in the Forest of Dean.

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.

In 2007 this land was unproductive farmland. Two streams flowed sluggishly through it to form a boggy field. With over 1,000 trees have been planted to transform the land and landscape.