#reforestation

🇹🇬 Togo · APAF-Togo (Association pour la Promotion des Arbres Fertilitaires, de l'Agroforesterie et de la Foresterie)

Trains Togolese farmers to interplant nitrogen-fixing fertility trees in their fields, rebuilding soil, income and forest cover at the same time.

🇩🇿 Algeria · Direction Générale des Forêts (Algeria)

Algeria's forestry directorate is relaunching a decades-old megaproject to plant a green barrier of trees across the country's steppe belt to halt the Sahara's advance.

🇸🇻 El Salvador · Asociación Mangle

A grassroots community group is hand-dredging clogged mangrove channels to bring fish, shrimp and floodwater relief back to El Salvador's Jiquilisco Bay.

🇷🇴 Romania · Foundation Conservation Carpathia

A Romanian foundation is buying up clear-cut mountainsides in the Făgăraș Mountains and letting bison, beavers and old-growth forest reclaim them.

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Cairngorms Connect

Four neighbouring landowners in the Scottish Highlands joined a 200-year plan to restore native forest, peatland and rivers across 60,000 hectares.

🇹🇿 Tanzania · Carbon Tanzania

A social enterprise that turns verified forest protection by Tanzanian communities into carbon revenue they control.

🌍 Global · Eden: People+Planet (formerly Eden Reforestation Projects)

A nonprofit that fights extreme poverty by hiring local villagers to restore forests in the developing world.

🇬🇹 Guatemala · FUNDAECO

Protects Guatemalan forests while delivering health and education to rural women and communities.

🇸🇹 São Tomé and Príncipe · Fundação Príncipe

A local foundation protects 31-million-year-old primary rainforest on Príncipe island while turning former turtle-egg poachers into nesting-beach rangers.

🇨🇲 Cameroon · Green Cameroon

A Buea-based grassroots NGO that replants degraded slopes around Mount Cameroon and restores community water sources across all ten of Cameroon's regions.

🇨🇩 DR Congo · Green Congo Initiative

An indigenous youth-led team in Goma is replanting the Congo Basin, paying mostly women to grow the trees that hold eroding hillsides together.

🇳🇬 Nigeria · Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF)

Nigeria's oldest conservation NGO is restoring degraded forest around the Omo Forest Reserve while paying local communities to grow the trees.

🇿🇦 South Africa · Greenpop Foundation NPC

What began as a festival to plant 1,000 trees in Cape Town has grown into a movement that has put more than 257,000 indigenous trees in the ground across Southern Africa.

🇧🇮 Burundi · Association Burundaise pour la Protection de la Nature (ABN)

Burundi's national BirdLife partner mobilizes highland farming communities to replant the river catchments that keep Lake Tanganyika from silting and salting up.

🇬🇱 Greenland · Greenland Trees (Dasht Foundation)

Working with a school in Narsaq, this small Dutch-Greenlandic initiative grows native trees from seed in an Arctic greenhouse and plants them across a degraded former military base in southern Greenland.

🇱🇺 Luxembourg · Fondation Hëllef fir d'Natur (natur&ëmwelt)

A homegrown Luxembourg foundation buys and manages a growing patchwork of wetlands, orchid meadows and forests while nursing thousands of injured wild animals back to health each year.

🇧🇿 Belize · Ya'axché Conservation Trust

A Belizean nonprofit manages a 275,000-hectare forest landscape linking the Maya Mountains to the Caribbean Sea, partnering with local farmers.

🇵🇭 Philippines · Haribon Foundation

The Philippines' oldest conservation group replants degraded watersheds with native, fruit-bearing trees instead of fast-growing exotics, rebuilding both forests and rural livelihoods.

🇪🇹 Ethiopia · World Vision Ethiopia

Farmers on Ethiopia's Mount Damota regrew a forest from old tree stumps and turned the carbon credits into grain mills, warehouses and floodproofing for their villages.

🇧🇷 Brazil · Instituto Terra

Sebastião Salgado's institute that regrew a barren cattle farm into thriving Atlantic Forest.

🇹🇿 Tanzania · Justdiggit

Justdiggit mobilizes African farmers and pastoralists to dig water-harvesting bunds and regrow trees from living stumps, regreening hundreds of thousands of hectares of degraded drylands.

🇵🇱 Poland · Fundacja Las Na Zawsze

A Polish foundation buying land and planting wild, permanent forests that are legally protected from ever being logged.

🇮🇳 India · Jadav 'Molai' Payeng

One man who single-handedly grew a forest on a barren Brahmaputra sandbar over four decades.

🇦🇿 Azerbaijan · IDEA – International Dialogue for Environmental Action

A Baku-based youth-powered NGO has planted more than five million trees across Azerbaijan and mobilized volunteers for coastal cleanups and recycling drives since 2011.

🇳🇵 Nepal · Federation of Community Forestry Users, Nepal (FECOFUN)

A nationwide federation lets ordinary Nepali villagers govern, harvest, and protect their own local forests instead of leaving that to the state.

🇦🇲 Armenia · Armenia Tree Project

Since 1994, this Yerevan-rooted nonprofit has replanted the trees Armenian families were forced to cut for firewood during a post-Soviet energy crisis.

🇬🇳 Guinea · Guinée Écologie

Guinea's oldest environmental NGO is running village nurseries to regrow the degraded classified forest of Mont Béro, tree by native tree.

🇸🇳 Senegal · Océanium

A Dakar-based association that mobilized hundreds of villages to replant tens of millions of mangroves in Senegal's deltas.

🌍 Global · One Tree Planted

A US nonprofit that plants a tree for every dollar donated, restoring forests worldwide.

🇳🇮 Nicaragua · Paso Pacifico

Former egg poachers turned community rangers now patrol Nicaragua's Pacific beaches every night to save critically endangered sea turtles.

🇩🇴 Dominican Republic · Plant With Purpose

Dominican farm families are replanting degraded mountain watersheds with cacao, avocado, and mango trees, cutting poverty while rebuilding the forest canopy.

🇮🇩 Indonesia · PT Rimba Makmur Utama (Katingan Mentaya Project)

The Katingan Mentaya Project protects and rewets one of the world's largest tracts of tropical peat swamp forest in Borneo, keeping centuries of stored carbon out of the atmosphere.

🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan · CAMP Alatoo

A Kyrgyz NGO helps woodland communities in southern Kyrgyzstan sustainably manage the planet's largest naturally growing walnut forest instead of losing it to overgrazing and degradation.

🇨🇴 Colombia · Fundación Proyecto Tití

Protects the critically endangered cotton-top tamarin by conserving and reconnecting Colombia's tropical dry forest.

🇦🇲 Armenia · Foundation for the Preservation of Wildlife and Cultural Assets (FPWC)

Since 2011 an Armenian NGO has been leasing degraded farmland from local communities to rebuild the only privately protected wildlife area in the South Caucasus, now a refuge for the Critically Endangered Caucasian leopard.

🇫🇷 France · Reforest'Action

A French company channeling corporate funding into certified forest restoration and agroforestry projects worldwide.

🇬🇷 Greece · We4all

Born from the ashes of Greece's 2018 Mati wildfire, We4all has replanted more than a million trees across the country's scorched hillsides.

🇨🇮 Ivory Coast · AGRO-MAP

An Ivorian nature-based-solutions company is planting millions of trees with cocoa farmers to claw back forest lost to decades of cocoa expansion.

🇳🇪 Niger · World Vision Australia — Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR)

Agronomist Tony Rinaudo's simple technique of pruning living tree stumps instead of planting saplings has regrown forest cover across roughly 5 million hectares of Niger's farmland.

🇬🇲 Gambia · Sankandi Youth Development Association (SYDA)

A rural youth association is replanting the mangrove green belt along the Bintang Bolong to bring back fish, farmland and firewood for six Gambian communities.

🇲🇱 Mali · Sahel Eco

Malian farmers are turning back the desert and rebuilding food security using centuries-old tree-regeneration techniques revived by a homegrown Sahelian NGO.

🇯🇲 Jamaica · Southern Trelawny Environmental Agency (STEA)

A community-rooted Trelawny NGO is replanting native forest in Jamaica's Cockpit Country, the karst wilderness that supplies 40 percent of the island's freshwater.

🇲🇾 Malaysia · HUTAN

A grassroots NGO run largely by the local Orang Sungai community has replanted over 246,000 trees to stitch Borneo's fragmented rainforest back together for wild orangutans.

🇲🇬 Madagascar · Green Again Madagascar

A Malagasy-run replanting crew regrows native rainforest canopy, tree by GPS-tagged tree, to rebuild lemur habitat scorched by fire on Madagascar's east coast.

🇺🇿 Uzbekistan · UNDP Uzbekistan – Green Aral Sea Initiative

Where the Aral Sea once lapped, hundreds of thousands of hectares of drought-tolerant saxaul now hold back one of the world's youngest deserts.

🇻🇳 Vietnam · PanNature (People and Nature Reconciliation / Trung tâm Con người và Thiên nhiên)

A Vietnamese conservation NGO is replanting native trees to stitch two protected forests back together into one wildlife corridor for the endangered white-cheeked gibbon.

🇵🇹 Portugal · GEOTA

Restores the fire-ravaged Serra de Monchique with hundreds of thousands of native, fire-resilient trees.

🇱🇧 Lebanon · Lebanon Reforestation Initiative (LRI)

A USAID-seeded NGO trains local nurseries and communities to replant native trees in a country that has lost nearly a third of its forest cover since the 1960s.

🇧🇷 Brazil · SOS Mata Atlântica

A Brazilian NGO has spent over three decades restoring the Atlantic Forest, one of the world's most biodiverse and most destroyed rainforests.

🇬🇪 Georgia · CENN (Caucasus Environmental NGO Network)

A Tbilisi-based NGO wrote Georgia's first National Forest Policy and now helps mountain villages manage their forests sustainably instead of stripping them for firewood.

🇸🇾 Syria · Syria Forest Foundation

A Washington-founded diaspora nonprofit is rebuilding Syria's war-battered olive and pistachio orchards, one nursery and farmer cooperative at a time.

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Trees for Life

This Highlands charity has grown more than two million native trees to bring Scotland's lost Caledonian pinewood back to life.

🇨🇳 China · Saihanba Mechanized Forest Farm

Three generations of state foresters turned a barren plateau north of Beijing into an 80%-forested expanse that now supplies the capital's water and clean air.

🇼🇸 Samoa · Samoa Conservation Society

A Samoan NGO is regrowing native rainforest inside one of the country's oldest national parks while racing to save the last of the dodo-like manumea bird.

🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Saudi Green Initiative

A national government program is rehabilitating degraded desert land and planting trees at massive scale as part of Saudi Arabia's push to fight desertification and cut emissions.

🇾🇪 Yemen · Socotra Dragon Blood Tree Association

French and Socotri islanders are raising community tree nurseries, beehives and water pipelines to save Socotra's iconic, storm-battered dragon blood trees.

🇵🇾 Paraguay · Guyra Paraguay

Founded to track Paraguay's vanishing birds, this NGO now owns and defends the largest surviving fragment of the Alto Paraná Atlantic Forest against fire, drug crops, and settlers.

🇹🇷 Türkiye · TEMA Foundation (Turkish Foundation for Combating Soil Erosion, for Reforestation and the Protection of Natural Habitats)

Turkey's largest environmental NGO has planted tens of millions of saplings and sown hundreds of millions of oak acorns to hold back soil erosion across the country.

🌍 Global · African Union / UNCCD Great Green Wall Initiative

A pan-African effort to grow an 8,000km mosaic of restored land across the Sahel by 2030.

🇰🇪 Kenya · The Green Belt Movement

Wangari Maathai's grassroots movement that empowers Kenyan women to restore forests.

🇰🇷 South Korea · Tree Planet

A Seoul-based B Corp that has grown from a tree-planting mobile game into a restoration company with 1.5 million trees across 334+ forests.

🇰🇭 Cambodia · Wildlife Alliance

Wildlife Alliance funds ranger patrols that protect Cambodia's Cardamom Rainforest, one of Southeast Asia's last intact forest landscapes.

🇹🇱 Timor-Leste · WithOneSeed

Subsistence farmers in Timor-Leste's Baguia district are replanting deforested hillsides and getting paid in carbon income for every tree they nurture.

🇧🇫 Burkina Faso · Yacouba Sawadogo

A Burkinabé farmer revived an ancient planting-pit technique to turn barren, crusted earth back into forest, then watched the method spread across the Sahel.

🇸🇴 Somalia · Somalia Earth Volunteers (SEV)

A youth-led Puntland nonprofit combines tree planting with frontline research to save Somalia's most endangered mammal, the Somali wild ass.

🇯🇵 Japan · more trees

more trees is a Japanese forest NGO, co-founded by musician Ryuichi Sakamoto, that restores neglected timber forests with local communities.