Usambara Biodiversity Conservation

🌱 Women Leading the Way in Environmental Conservation 🌍

At our project, women are playing a powerful role in restoring our landscapes and protecting nature for future generations. Through their dedication and hard work, they are not only conserving the environment but also creating

🌱🌍 Young Hands, Greener Future! 🌍🌱

Today, school children proudly took part in tree planting activities through the 4H Million Trees Club, empowering the next generation to become champions of environmental conservation. 💚🌳

By planting trees, these young environmental stewards

WOMEN

We champion women as vital leaders in climate action and ecological restoration. Our projects support women with resources, training and spaces to grow their skills, protect their rights and lead community-driven change.

In our field there is nothing so inspiring than to see the results of a reforestation or restoration project, where the landscape, the wildlife and the daily life of the local community has been transformed in less than a decade. It’s especially heartening to see how much the local

Women play a big role in ensuring that the seedlings get to the planting site! As a result they earn a living!

We work with local communities to plant trees that transform landscapes and lives. We know that successful and sustainable restoration depends on community involvement. Which is why all our projects are designed and run by local groups. We work with local communities to plant trees

Eco Tourism with our project “If you want to become an instrument of change, gather people in your community and host a regular conversation. The only way to succeed is to connect people, share inspiration and support one another.”

With a long history of growing trees and restoring forests, especially in Usambara Biodiversity Conservation Project, we know that the relationship between people and forests is vital. That’s why we’re a community-led organisation.

It takes a great team to make reforestation happen.
It is such a privilege to work with a team where there is dedication, resourcefulness, commitment and good humour in such abundance. We are a small team based in Usamabara Mountains, Tanzania, and we try to keep our structure

Collaboration & Ongoing Relationships is among the ethical principles of scientific and cultural best practices for land and forest restoration.
Local communities are fully informed, have the right to participate and be active in decision making processes, staying involved throughout

Our planting projects.
Our approach to reforestation integrates respect, equity, collaboration, and nature connection into climate action.

Across multiple locations, and all of our planting sites, we are rebalancing power structures, embedding gender equity, and uplifting and

Women are the heart of the Usambara Biodiversity Conservation Project.

Restoration Strategy
Community, nature and women are the core of who we are and what we do.

We at Friends of Usambara Society believe that successful and sustainable tree planting depends on community involvement. Which is why all our projects are designed and run by local groups—community members solving their own landscape issues while empowering those most vulnerable

This project was designed through a participatory approach where the local communities formulated the goals and objectives.
Through the multi-faceted approach, the project aims not only to reforest the land and provide fuelwood for the communities but also to increase respect and