We are delighted to announce the start of a new project with the Community Empowerment Initiative Network (CEIN).

ITF's 20 Million Trees Campaign has completed its first season of planting, with 68,500 seedlings added to deforested land and farms around Embu County, Kenya. The campaign aims to plant 20 million trees by 2024 across Kenya's five Water Tower forests.

We are excited to announce that we have secured funding for a new project in Zanzibar! Aiming to increase the capacity of local communities in participatory forest management, the project will work on 10 villages around Unguja.

Following a record number of applications, we are pleased to announce the successful organisations who will receive funding from our Sustainable Community Forestry programme.

The Dom Community Food Forest project is part of the long-term collaboration between Community Assistance in Development (COMAID) and ITF, which started back in 2015.

Autumn 2016 marks the 80th birthday of Trees, the journal of International Tree Foundation, known as The Men of the Trees in the past. This makes Trees one of the oldest environmental publications still going strong today. In fact we have just published the 73rd Volume of the journal.

Co-founder and CEO, Makala Jasper, was singled out from more than 130 other applicants to receive an international conservation award from the Whitley Fund for Nature.

Programme Manager, Emmanuel Banda, said these challenging conditions only served to underline the importance of the NBNW project – because farmers were being trained to use agroforestry and a selection of tried and tested crops to achieve greater drought resilience.