The forest of Barbara

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April 2025

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

09 Apr 2025
Deanna Venzke
Deanna Venzke · 6 hours ago

Amazing!!

When your teak saplings start outgrowing the average 6 ft tall human. These beauties are reaching for the skies - and winning!

09 Apr 2025

Trees Like Water

Well, they do when they're growing at the Equator and its the dry season! Climate change is making rainfall patterns in the tropics ever more spora...

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At Usambara Biodiversity Conservation Project, everything we do is rooted in community collaboration. Our focus is on creating long-term, sustainable benefits for both the landscape and the people who rely on forests for their livelihoods.

01 Apr 2025
March 2025

A quick look back at one of our farmers and her family proudly harvesting the results of their Forest Garden—a reminder of how trees can support both livelihoods and landscapes.

31 Mar 2025

Successful agroforestry starts with thoughtful site selection. Factors like soil quality, water availability, slope, and sunlight all influence how well trees and crops can grow together.

Selecting the right location ensures that trees support—not compete with—agricultural production,

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31 Mar 2025

This little guy is a mudskipper—part fish, part land explorer.

Found in healthy mangrove ecosystems like those in Madagascar, mudskippers can breathe through their skin and even “walk” on land using their fins.

Their presence is a great sign that the mangroves are thriving.

28 Mar 2025
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Did you know?

Mangroves can survive in saltwater by filtering out up to 90% of the salt through their roots—or excreting it through their leaves. It’s one of the reasons they thrive along Madagascar’s coasts where few other trees can.

28 Mar 2025

🌱 Pronatura promotes a tree-planting event with an inspiring example! 🌳

Recently, Pronatura led an incredible tree-planting initiative, bringing together volunteers of all ages! Among them, the residents of Felizmente Lar stood out, offering a true lesson in youthfulness and perseverance

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27 Mar 2025

🌱 Great news for reforestation! 🌧️

The March rains have been incredibly productive, allowing us to extend the planting season! 🌳💚 Thanks to these favorable conditions, we carried out several reforestation actions, involving dedicated volunteers committed to restoring nature

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27 Mar 2025

Celebrating World Forest Day with a Tree Planting 🌳🌍

As part of the CEETTAR European Meeting held in Portugal, we marked World Forest Day with a symbolic gesture of commitment to sustainability: the planting of a tree.

The ceremony was led by the President of CEETTAR, reinforcing

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27 Mar 2025

First seedlings being propagated in ourt new Bore Mau nursery. Thanks for helping us expand in this way!

23 Mar 2025

Our community at Usambara Biodiversity Conservation Project are growing up in a climate crisis, surrounded by news of rising temperatures, droughts, floods, and disappearing wildlife. But when they plant trees, they become environmentalists, working to create a greener future.

22 Mar 2025
Julie Goddard
Julie Goddard · 21 hours ago

Good news

Really excited to highlight our new community nursery on our latest Bore Mau planting site in Narok County. Its been quite hard work for the team, getting it all together but luckily project manager Alex Katana knows everything there is to know about propagating tree seedlings! More

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19 Mar 2025
NAKEDFOOD.CH Ltd.
NAKEDFOOD.CH Ltd. · 22 days ago

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This is Teak- growing strong !! It shed its leaves it had from nursery and now it has its fresh leaves.

17 Mar 2025
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