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What the work actually looks like from the seven landscapes we plant and protect. Notes from rangers and nursery crews, results from the science team, and the occasional thing that went wrong.
42 stories · updated 18 Jun 2026
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Beavers moved into the creek we replanted
Four years after we put willow and alder back along Coldspring Creek, a beaver pair built a dam there. Nobody released them. They walked in.
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Beehive fences cut crop raids by elephants to near zero
Farmers on the edge of the restoration block hung beehives on wires between posts. Elephants avoid bees, so they avoid the fence. Raids on the maize behind it dropped from weekly to none in five months.
Kenya Highlands, Kenya -
Three villages now hold legal title to the forest they protect
After four years of paperwork, three communities in the Mbeli area hold formal community forest titles over 18,400 hectares.
Congo Basin, DRC -
The nursery that grew from one woman's backyard
Dona Marlene started raising seedlings in pots behind her house in 2019. Her nursery now supplies a fifth of everything we plant in the basin.
Amazon Basin, Brazil -
Our carbon method passed peer review
The way we measure carbon on our sites, using ground plots checked against satellite data, was published in a peer-reviewed journal after eighteen months of review.
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A corridor now links two forests orangutans had been stuck between
A 9km strip of replanted forest now joins two reserves that had been separated by cleared land since the 1990s. A camera caught an orangutan using it within a month.
Borneo, Indonesia -
We collected Douglas fir cones by hand this winter
A small crew gathered cones from 80 parent trees chosen for how they handled the last two droughts. The seed will grow the trees we plant in 2028.
Cascadia, USA -
Coffee growers gave up the strip of land beside the river
Fourteen smallholders agreed to pull their coffee back from the Hemavathi and let us replant a 20-metre buffer of native trees along 6km of bank.
Western Ghats, India -
Forty new rangers finished training in the Mbeli collective
A twelve-week course turned out 40 community rangers, 15 of them women, the most in any intake we have run.
Congo Basin, DRC