Reversing Deforestation

We are beginning to reforest 5,000 ha of land to improve biodiversity, climate resilience, and increase local livelihoods. Uganda’s forests have been depleted due to subsistence agriculture, charcoal production and poverty. We will employ local communities to plant, protect, manage, and monitor reforestation on large 1000ha+ plots of private land that has been leased for restoration purposes, using a combination of native species for rewilding, intercropping to address food security, and supporting community agroforestry to reduce pressure on existing forests and project future forests.

Why?

Uganda is one of the most biodiverse countries in the world that has been stripped of its forests due to subsistence agriculture and poverty. Forest cover has been reduced from 59in 1900 to 13% in 2020 with an ongoing deforestation rate 3% per year. There is an opportunity to work with communities and landowners to turn their degraded land into productive forests that sequester carbon, grow crops in the short term, fruit in the long term, and restore microclimates. By partnering with corporations and investors, we have the opportunity to transform the futures for tens of thousands of farmers and communities by giving access to jobs, supporting education, health care, and wealth generation through these projects.