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A lemur turned up in a plot we planted three years ago
A brown lemur was photographed feeding in a 2022 planting, the first time we have recorded one using restored forest here rather than just passing through.
Madagascar -
A fence now keeps elephants off the new highway
After two elephants were killed on a widened highway, we worked with the forest department to fence the road and steer the herd to an underpass through our corridor.
Western Ghats, India -
The women’s nursery doubled its output
The Kanam women’s cooperative raised 240,000 seedlings this year, double last year’s figure, and now supplies three of our Kenyan sites.
Kenya Highlands, Kenya -
A new research tie with the University of Leeds
We have a three-year arrangement with the restoration ecology lab at Leeds to check our methods and publish what works and what does not.
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Low rivers stranded a seedling delivery for a week
A boatload of 30,000 seedlings sat for a week when the river dropped too low to pass. Most survived. It is a reminder of how the logistics really work out here.
Amazon Basin, Brazil -
Soil carbon is climbing on the year-three plots
Soil samples from plots planted in 2022 show measurable gains in soil carbon, the slow half of the drawdown story that usually takes years to show up.
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The ranger who walks 18km before breakfast
Espérance Bofenda has patrolled the same stretch of the Mbeli forest for six years. She knows it the way most people know their street.
Congo Basin, DRC -
Cookstoves that need a third of the charcoal
We helped distribute 1,500 efficient cookstoves around two sites. Each one cuts a household’s charcoal use by roughly two-thirds, which takes pressure off the forest we are trying to grow.
Madagascar