James and the team in Africa recently visited our partners in Uganda to see how communities are planting trees that build resilience and transform landscapes for a better future.

Ahead of International Day of Forests, we’re celebrating the people behind forest restoration projects.

Rewilding creates landscapes and ecosystems that are more biodiverse, resilient, and healthy. One of our UK planting projects has helped to do just this.

This International Women's Day we’re celebrating restoration projects that are supporting women to not only contribute to community-driven initiatives but also equally benefit from them.

Against the backdrop of the climate and ecological crises, rural women are reshaping their role in conservation initiatives as they work to restore and protect native forests.

To make the biggest difference for the communities we work with we can’t be complacent about what we do and how we do it. This has always been the case, but it is even more important now in the context of worsening climate change.

Discover how agroforestry is transforming the lives of rural communities affected by climate change in central Kenya.

Community forestry supports people on the front lines of climate and ecological breakdown to transition towards healthy landscapes and resilient livelihoods.

From peatlands and swamps to mangrove forests and salt marshes, wetlands provide important ecosystem services for people and the planet.

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.