In June Andy Egan, ITF Chief Executive, and Paul Laird, Programmes Manager, visited Mount Bamboutos in Cameroon as one of the first steps to establish the new Mount Bamboutos Inititiative (MBI) with our partner the Environment and Rural Development Foundation (ERuDeF). ITF and ERuDeF have committed to work together for 15 years to contribute to…
Patrick Kuyokwa, Projects Coordinator at Temwa Malawi, wrote this article about the Nkhata Bay Natural Way Project in our 2017 Trees Journal. Paul Laird, ITF Programmes Manager, who has visited the project twice, adds some details on its achievements. In Nkhata Bay North, past exploitation of natural resources by local communities, land degradation and erratic…
Roger Leakey argues on MongaBay that trees are much more than just the ‘lungs of the planet’. There are two important answers to the question “why do we need more trees in farmland?” One is global and one is local. Globally, trees are often recognized as the ‘lungs of the world’ because they exchange oxygen…
ITF’s partner projects are funded from various sources, ranging from fundraising campaigns, legacies, monthly membership donations to those running marathons. But this year, one of our projects has been funded entirely from gifts at one couple’s wedding! Ina and David Stewart decided to donate half of all the money raised at their wedding to ITF,…
The results are in from the first season of planting for ITF’s 20 Million Trees Campaign! 68,500 seedlings were planted on deforested land and on farms during the rainy months of November and December in Kenya. Community groups from six towns and villages around Embu County, situated on the South-Eastern slopes of Mount Kenya, were…
Following a record number of applications, we are pleased to announce the successful organisations who will receive funding from our Sustainable Community Forestry Programme. Three exceptional projects were selected by the grants panel and will begin activities in the coming weeks. Spanning three different countries – Cameroon, Ghana and Madagascar – the projects aim to tackle…
In Eastern Uganda, in Budaka District The Village Enterprise Foundation Organisation (VEFO) launched a new project over the summer funded by ITF’s Sustainable Community Forestry programme. ‘Building Entrepreneurial Skills in Tree Nursery Management’ will support six tree nurseries to become small business entities over a year, aiming to raise 170,000 seedlings for the local community’s needs.…
