We’re supporting rural women in Masaka District, Uganda to become green agents of change.

This week, The Guardian published an article claiming that more than 90% of rainforest carbon offsets by the world’s biggest provider are worthless.

Community led forestry has the potential to restore the ecological integrity of degraded ecosystems, enhance human wellbeing and improve local livelihoods.

Since 2020, we’ve been planting fruit trees in Western Uganda with our partner, Karambi Group of People with Disabilities through the ‘Karambi Food Forestry Project’.

Since March, we’ve been supporting the local community to source, plant and grow threatened tree species in a bid to restore and protect Dundori Forest, Kenya.

it turns out the older assessments significantly underestimate the carbon stored in taller trees. Put simply, taller older trees tend to be denser and thus store proportionately more carbon than smaller trees – by around 70-80% more.

James looks back on all the achievements of our partners and team and looks ahead to the year to come.

Dehaney James, ITF’s newest team member, shares about a recent tree planting trip to Paris at Ferme de Pontaly.

Together with our partner, the Centre for Research Uptake in Africa, we are engaging the local Batwa community in a vital forest restoration project.

There is an increasingly strong appetite for companies and individuals to be ‘net zero’. The desire to say, “on balance we are not contributing to climate change”. The ‘we’ in question can be a person, a family, a company or even a government.

Our UK team kickstarted this National Tree Planting Week with an exciting tree planting session alongside one of our community partners at the Blue Cross animal rehoming centre in Burford, West Oxfordshire.

For one week only, you can double your impact thanks to the Big Give! That’s twice the impact for our planet and the communities we work with.

We know that trees are not a panacea for fixing climate change. But we know that community-led reforestation and forest protection, done well, is a major plank in wider global strategies to combat climate change and protect nature.

We’re supporting local communities in Marsabit County, Kenya to plant trees that help build resilience to and combat the drastic effects of climate change.

Thanks to your support of our 2021 Christmas Big Give Campaign, we’re planting trees to restore and protect the shrinking wetlands in Saiwa Swamp National Park, Kenya.

Lula was the candidate for anyone with a concern for the future of our planet with his campaign promise of zero deforestation.

I used to simply divide the year into four seasons. It was a moot point about when one season bowed off the stage and the next one appeared, but the four seasons were the fundamental way that I defined the annual natural cycle.

I can proudly say, I was a part of the oldest and most amazing tree planting organisation in the world.  

Last week the UK team went out into Oxford to pick some acorns for an exciting little project we have going on.

In the cacophony of voices speaking about carbon markets, those of rural and agricultural communities, particularly in the global South, risk being left out.