Here are 10 strong reasons why we chose to plant the trees in Africa:

Trees grow three times faster in Africa than they do in the UK. Therefore, our trees will help negate the carbon impact on our environment a lot faster.

A tree planted in the African climate can reach 20ft in 2 years, so we’ll get results in our lifetime.

You get to choose the type of tree you want to get planted – indigenous or fruit.
We can personally visit the Wikaniko Tree Project next year, to film it and show you the good that you’re going to be doing. Or we can arrange trips for you to go and see it for yourself!

The trees are used both to provide a wage for poor people in villages and to help sustain the villages with produce, firewood and materials for building etc – so the world gets a lot more benefit than simply planting a tree to help reduce carbon emissions!      

The trees improve living standards for families, and the local economies. The tree planting helps them generate a sustainable income from food, medicines and shelter.

Trees allow vegetation and other growth to survive in harsh conditions by retaining water in the soil and providing shelter from direct sunlight etc. Trees can, if managed correctly, provide a massive range of unexpected benefits and natural resources including medication which can be used locally and sold throughout the world.
The benefits from these trees spread far beyond these remote villages, to our own homes, schools and communities as well. That is because these trees also remove great quantities of carbon dioxide from the global atmosphere (the major "greenhouse gas" (GHG) responsible for global climate change). Trees take this carbon and turn it into things people need such as food, clothing, shelter, medicines and organic fertilizer - in doing so returning the carbon to the soil.

Our partners in Ethiopia however have been operating tree nurseries for 7 years on a large scale and consistently achieve 85-91% survival rate. This season they have cultivated in excess of 3.5million seedlings across many nurseries and know what trees work well with others to provide natural bio-diversity and eco-system balance, being sustainable.

These trees are planted in the most barren of landscapes where human desperation has cleared areas with currently no natural resources. Unlike most areas which have other uses, these areas will only survive with our help, and these trees. Within areas home to natural forest are dormant seeds lying in the ground. So for every 50 new trees planted, another 150 or so are likely to grow back.

………….and there are a whole host of other reasons as to why we believe we can do more good, more quickly, and more cost effectively than we could do in the UK. Basically, we’re going to plant far more trees for far less money. Does that sound good to you?

How To Order

Visit the online shop and place your order from the Trees category