An article in the Guardian today highlights the work of several tree planting charities including International Tree Foundation. Asking the question ‘Can planting billions of trees save the planet?’, it goes on to profile some of the organisations working through a community-centred approach to restore trees to our planet. ITF’s 20 Million Trees Campaign is…
Paul Laird, ITF Programmes Manager, is encouraged by the commitment of farmers to grasp the challenges of Mount Bamboutos in Cameroon. “It is a big challenge – they will have to learn again to do what their grandparents always did” – Paul Laird The slopes of the mountain are increasingly farmed. Young farmers need land – and…
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…
The 2017 ITF Annual Event will take place this Saturday 24th June at the Horniman Museum and Gardens in London. This year, we’ve chosen to bring together a panel of specialists to discuss the topic of women and sustainable community forestry. We’ll be asking the question – ‘Women: the driving force for sustainable comunity forestry?’…
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…