Verve Place temporary housing centre is one of 26 sites taking part in Fruit-full Communities – a project supporting young people in supported housing to design and plant an orchard on their grounds.

Discover the inspiring stories of tree planting and agroforestry in Kenya through ITF's 20 Million Trees campaign. From small-scale farmers earning a living while restoring the forest to women's groups nurturing tree nurseries, this campaign is uplifting lives and building capacity for sustainable agriculture.

Discover the Dom Community Food Forest project in Cameroon's Bamenda Highlands, a biodiversity hotspot. Learn about the project's achievements in community empowerment and find out how it is contributing to the global effort to protect endangered ecosystems.

Discover the diverse and valuable roles of trees in our ecosystems beyond being the "lungs of the planet" in this article by Roger Leakey.

It’s Day 2 of the Big Give Christmas Challenge. Each day this week, we’re focusing on one aspect of our 20 Million Trees programme. Today the theme is Agroforestry.

Day 1 of the Big Give has arrived! Each day this week, we’re focusing on one aspect of our 20 Million Trees programme. Today the theme is: Water!

For day 4 of the Big Give Christmas Challenge, we're returning to our schools programme, My 20 Trees and Me: Growing up Together, to see how the children and their trees are getting on.

ITF’s 2017 Trees Journal volume 74 is now published! Andy Egan, ITF Chief Executive, introduces the inspiring and thought provoking articles from a our partners.

Kafuga Forest is a remnant patch of ancient rainforest that offers a rare glimpse of Uganda’s remarkable biodiversity. ITF partners, PROBICOU, have been working to secure this area against the ongoing threat of encroachment. Learn about their stakeholder engagement and alternative income generation efforts to protect this critical resource.

Working with both children and teachers, Amuria Schools Tree Planting Project (ASTREPP) aims to raise awareness about environmental degradation and give students practical skills in tree planting.

In Lundazi District, Zambia, deforestation is largely attributed to a dramatic increase in the cultivation of tobacco, cotton and maize. But the community strongly desires to reverse this trend through tree planting.

In Madagascar, ITF partner Ny Tanintsika are halfway through their project titled ‘Endemic Trees for Sustainable Agroforestry’, which aims to work with farming communities near the COFAV Rainforest Corridor.

We’ve recently expanded our tree planting to Northern Mount Kenya, bringing on board a new partner – Mount Kenya Trust (MKT). MKT will plant over 240,000 trees, restoring native forest.

“A practical, appropriate and effective solution to Africa’s food and nutritional insecurity has eluded everyone for over 100 years. Since colonial days, conventional thinking has been based on the misconception that what works in temperate latitudes must work in the tropics and sub-tropics.”

The second year of the Fruit-full Communities Project got off to a flying start with the ‘Training of Trainers Day’ held on 12th April at DECSY in Sheffield.

ITF’s partner projects are funded from various sources, ranging from fundraising campaigns, legacies and monthly membership donations. But this year, one of our projects has been funded entirely from gifts at one couple’s wedding!

Paul Laird, ITF Programmes Manager, reports on our new partnership with the Centre for Sustainable Rural Agriculture and Development (CSRAD) in Ghana. ITF is supporting their project for the Conservation of Montonnso Sacred Forest.

Community members danced non-stop for three hours at Our Lady’s Abingdon (OLA) Senior School to raise over £1,800 for mental health charity MIND and International Tree Foundation (ITF)’s Bamenda project. Latin-inspired moves and great music made this event one to remember!

Reflecting on International Women's Day and the history of the Men of the Trees, this article highlights the key role of women in the organisation's creation and development. From Claudia Stuart Coles, who introduced founder Richard St. Barbe Baker to the Bahá'í faith, to Wendy Campbell-Purdie's work reforesting the Algerian desert in the 1960s, women were central to the group's vision and execution.

Discover the importance of trees and forests in protecting wildlife on World Wildlife Day. Discover how we’re engaging future decision makers & leaders by inspiring a love for forests in young people through initiatives like My 20 Trees and Me and Fruit-full Communities.