Planting trees in Kenya - conserving rare trees and addressing global warming with protected forests

UK Charity Excellent supports communities in rural semi-arid regions of Africa to regenerate degraded environments and create sustainable livelihoods. In rural Africa 80% of people rely on traditional medicines for primary health care. However unsustainable exploitation threatens many of the indigenous medicinal trees from which these traditional medicines are harvested.

In Kenya, Excellent's TreeDuty forests protect these rare, often difficult to grow species in a secure fenced and watered environment. The rainwater harvesting methods used as well as the trees themselves help conserve soil and water and restore degraded and deforested environments.

Seeds from the forest trees are made available to community members who wish to plant the trees on their own farms, for both income and medicinal use. Excellent provides training and community exchanges so farmers learn how to grow and harvest the trees for themselves.

As well as protecting endangered species and providing a source of income and medicines, planting trees within the tropics has been shown to increase low level cloud cover resulting in a cooling effect on regional temperatures.

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• Africa
• water
• soil
• climate change
• tree planting
• conservation
• sustainable development
• rural
• farmers
• Kenya
• community
• trees
• semi-arid
• tropics
• dalbergia
• prunus africana
• moringa

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ALL OF THESE ARE NATURE GROWTH AND PROTECTION SPELLS CAST BY RAVERS LONG AGO!

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WANTI!! Abandoning all conventional wisdom!

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I love this work, thank you.