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June 2, 2023

The carbon storage turbo on four legs: Codeword AAC

A study published in Nature has found amazing things about the role of wildlife on the carbon cycle. The authors ...

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April 17, 2023

Fires on Las Américas 7 and 6: an overview of events

In late March and early April 2023, several fires occurred in different parts of our restoration sites in ...

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March 14, 2023

Fires on the Yucatán Peninsula during dry season – under control thanks to effective management

Fires have occurred this week at Las Américas 1 and Las Américas 11. None of our trees have ...

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January 30, 2023

Beauty Planet Association: Driving Iran’s Mangrove Restoration Through Local Community Efforts

In the heart of the MENA-region (Middle East and North Africa), Iran is one of the most vulnerable ...

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December 23, 2022

Delegation from Plant-for-the-Planet at the COP15 in Montréal, Canada

The 15th Conference of Parties for biodiversity meeting takes place in Canada’s lovely French city of Montréal from ...

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December 19, 2022

Bulindi Chimpanzee and Community Project: Restoring Ecosystems in Uganda and Harmony Between Wild Chimpanzees and Local Communities

Loss of forest cover and biodiversity can often bring conflict between humans and wildlife if left unaddressed. This ...

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November 30, 2022

Our outreach at COP27 in Egypt

The 27th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) took place ...

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November 18, 2022

What the children and youth have been telling governments since 2010: The 3-Point-Plan to Save our Future

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report has confirmed once again: To mitigate the climate ...

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October 19, 2022

Indigenous People Driving Restoration of Ancestral Rainforest and Agroforestry in the Philippines

One of the most striking things among all the projects interviewed in the past months on this blog ...

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August 11, 2022

Ready for the next decade: Our new statutes provide the basis

When the Plant-for-the-Planet Foundation was established on November 11th, 2011, we were a very small organization with just ...

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July 21, 2022

NY Times Magazine: How Plant-for-the-Planet kicked off the Trillion Trees Movement – and how challenging it is to implement

“The idea that planting trees can effectively and simultaneously cure a host of the world’s most pressing maladies ...

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July 20, 2022

Forest Focus: Reforestation and Agroforestry Addressing Extreme Poverty and Biodiversity Loss in Tanzania

In Tanzania, addressing extreme poverty is a big motivation driving reforestation and agroforestry practices. Khalifa Mganga is the ...

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May 9, 2022

How Árbol Co(n)razón is Reforesting Mountains in Latin America

Ever heard “trees don’t grow on mountains”? Well, there are ways around that including reforesting the Mountain and ...

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May 5, 2022

Inside the project Plant-for-Ghana: This was the very first planting season

July 25th, 2021 marked the day when the very first tree of Plant-for-the-Planet Ghana was finally planted: The ...

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April 21, 2022

New Plant-for-the-Planet Advisory Board for Restoration established in Constitución.

In early April, we had a little celebration in our office in Constitución in Southern Mexico: The newly ...