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March 2017

Climate change doesn't affect the daily lives of most people in the developed world too much but by accident of planetary thermodynamics it does exert a strong impact at the poles and in the tropics. These kids have no idea why their seasonal rain is disappearing but we know , don't

Ivan Georgiev · 8 years ago

We know, some act up, and some manage to convince on top of it ! Much courag...

How old is this Casuarina tree? Is it older than the Boré boys beside it, younger or somewhere in between? One of the main reasons that tropical trees are key to keeping the atmosphere cool is down to their incredibly fast growth rates.....This means they absorb CO2 from the atmosphere

Ru Hartwell · 8 years ago

OK, Sorry Max, Francisco got it right. I didnt expect you guys to get so clos...

February 2017

Children from 1(!!) family in Mikuyuni by Boré. They are part of a community that earn their living by harvesting the products of the palm trees that grow on the banks of the nearby Sabaki River. The trunks of the trees are tapped to collect palm sugar that naturally ferments into

Peter Hotherstall · 8 years ago

This is lovely, great effort!

Tree planting is great. We love it! But we need to do a whole lot more as well. Here Boré farmers attend a training workshop on how to increase the yields of their trees, how to reduce pest attack and how to plant in such a way that the trees stand the best chance of survival in

Fred Astaire · 8 years ago

Keep it on :D

January 2017

Rains come to Bore! Better late than never....but the 'Little Rains' have finally arrived and turned everything green. Climate change may feel like a rather abstract concept for most of us in the Northern Hemisphere but it is an everyday reality for all of sub-Saharan Africa these

Maxime Renaudin · 8 years ago

Thanks for the update Ru

December 2016

Here collecting seedlings from one of our women tree nursery groups!

Several decades ago, three thousand hectares of forest was cleared at the Karuri site for an illegal settlement camp. Once removed, the land has remained bare, with no forest belt up to the moorlands. Since 2012,

Trish Geidel · 8 years ago

CONGRATULATIONS ON PLANTING 32,605 TREES, EVEN THO THE RAINS WERE LATE IN COM...

Mikono mingi kufanya kazi mwanga.......

Its 'all hands to the pump' at our central nursery in Bore as the kids help out with the mammoth task of filling 150,000 poly pots with a mixture o...

November 2016

Development plan for our new #ForestCentre in Bore. Long term, we aim for this to become a base for volunteering and sustainable tourism here in Coast Province. Tree-Nation members have been tremendously helpful to the community over many years so will be particularly welcome to

Tracey West · 8 years ago

This is such a terrific achievement for the Community Carbon Link and the Bor...

Tree seedlings are ready to plant and sell in the Mount Kenya Tree Nursery. Kenya is currently experiencing a dry period so we are waiting for the rains to start (usually in October) to plant trees on the mountain.

#TreeNursery

October 2016

Our 5 year plan to build a Forest Visitor Centre on the climate change front line in Kenya is finally coming into being. With help from Tree-Nation corporate donors we are building the first part of this unique research and volunteering base which will ultimately provide the community

Ru Hartwell · 8 years ago

Couldn't agree more Tracey!

September 2016

Kadunguni School, Bore. Home of our most recently added planting site and in a particularly poor area. We recently completed our annual project monitoring inspection and this school, despite enormous difficulties have managed to keep every single planted tree alive. (You can just

Trish Geidel · 8 years ago

MAY GOD BLESS U ALL ABUNDANTLY, IN 2017 ! XXX

10 children hard at work doing extra lessons care of a solar panel supplied by Tree-Nation. Hopefully with a better education these kids will be able to find better work than charcoal burning....Panels like this work much like tree leaves, collecting energy from the sun except that

Trish Geidel · 9 years ago

WONDERFUL IDEA ! SOO GLAD TREE NATION SUPPLIED THIS FOR THE KIDS ! <3 XXXXX...

August 2016

(Motor)cycle of Destruction!

This picture illustrates how hard it is to conserve tropical forest in a warming world. As the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere inexorably rises, th...

Interested in the camera....

Amparo Estrada · 9 years ago

Bellísima! Qué imagen encantadora!!

Bore children love Tree-Nation!

#tnphoto #nursery #tnwear

Jasmine Beck · 9 years ago

Oh I love
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