Trees in South Africa
South Africa
This is a contribution to tree planting, not a certified carbon credit. No carbon credit is retired for this purchase.
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About this project
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Each tree funds the restoration of indigenous forest in the Uilkraal Valley of the Overberg, South Africa. Planting takes place at Platbos Forest, the southernmost indigenous forest on the African continent, and neighbouring Bodhi Khaya Forest, both inside the Walker Bay Protected Environment.
Trees go only on degraded land previously cleared of invasive alien vegetation, and are always locally indigenous and diverse, never single species plantations. Most new planting is on Blomerus, the corridor that reconnects the two ancient forest relics so that seed, birds and animals can move between them again.
The sites are protected and actively managed for fire and erosion. Indigenous trees are never felled: the trees planted here are intended to stand permanently.
Read more about the project on the Reforestation in South Africa page.
Photos taken at Platbos Forest by Matthew Fainman, Simon Tamblyn and Caroline Voget on iNaturalist, licensed CC BY 4.0.
