#tree-planting

🇹🇬 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.

🇨🇳 China · Ant Group

Alipay's in-app mini-program that converts users' low-carbon actions into real trees, with 619 million planted across China's arid regions.

🇹🇿 Tanzania · Tanzania Forest Conservation Group (TFCG)

Tanzania's largest forest-focused NGO works with mountain communities to protect the ancient Eastern Arc cloud forests.

🇺🇸 United States · Depave

Volunteers tear up unused asphalt and concrete across Portland, turning parking lots and schoolyards back into soil, trees and community green space.

🌍 Global · Ecosia

The Berlin search engine that uses its ad profits to plant trees around the world.

🇪🇹 Ethiopia · EthioTrees Ecosystem Restoration Association

Landless and smallholder farmers in Ethiopia's Tembien highlands are regenerating degraded mountain slopes with exclosures, hillside terraces and native trees, funded by carbon credits they control.

🇦🇸 American Samoa · Finafinau

American Samoa's only youth-led environmental nonprofit turned 150 teenagers loose on a single beach and hauled out 4,000 pieces of trash.

🇰🇪 Kenya · Friends of Karura Forest

A community forest association turned a logged, squatted and dumped-on patch of Nairobi into one of the world's largest thriving urban forests.

🇧🇳 Brunei · Green Brunei

A youth-led platform turning Brunei's beaches and classrooms into frontlines for plastic cleanup, tree planting and climate literacy.

🇨🇲 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.

🇹🇩 Chad · Green Team Tchad

A youth-led climate collective in N'Djamena is turning school playgrounds into climate action clubs, arming Chadian teenagers to fight desertification and urban heat with tree nurseries and public speaking.

🇿🇦 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.

🌍 Global · Tree Aid

Tree Aid works with communities across Africa's Sahel to grow trees and restore degraded drylands, turning shrinking farmland back into productive ground.

🇬🇭 Ghana · Ghana Wildlife Society

Ghana's leading wildlife NGO is pulling a critically endangered tree back from the brink while training communities to steward forests and birds.

🇹🇿 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.

🇦🇲 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.

🇰🇪 Kenya · Nyatike Mirema Community Forest Association

A community-led reforestation drive in western Kenya where widows and people with disabilities earn a living growing tree seedlings instead of begging.

🌍 Global · One Tree Planted

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

🇮🇳 India · Kiran Nidhi Sansthan

A Rajasthan village plants 111 trees every time a girl is born, turning the celebration of daughters into two decades of large-scale reforestation.

🇩🇴 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.

🇨🇷 Costa Rica · Monteverde Conservation League (Asociación Conservacionista de Monteverde)

A Costa Rican NGO built from schoolchildren's fundraising protects the country's largest private cloud forest reserve.

🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Ethiopian Wildlife and Natural History Society (EWNHS)

Ethiopia's oldest environmental NGO safeguards the country's wild birds and habitats through flyway conservation, tree-planting and grassroots education.

🇹🇷 Türkiye · KuzeyDoğa Society

Türkiye has drained most of its lakes in a century; in the far north-east, one society got water back into a Ramsar site that had turned to cracked mud.

🇫🇷 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.

🇲🇦 Morocco · High Atlas Foundation

High Atlas Foundation runs community tree nurseries that turn arid, degraded ground on the edge of the Sahara into productive fruit and nut orchards.

🇯🇲 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.

🇺🇸 United States · Sequoia Parks Conservancy

After wildfire killed thousands of ancient giant sequoias, this park partner is funding cone collection, nurseries, and hand-replanting to bring the burned groves back.

🇵🇹 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.

🇦🇺 Australia · Carbon Neutral

The Yarra Yarra Biodiversity Corridor is replanting a 200-kilometre strip of native mallee bush across Western Australia's salt-degraded wheatbelt to lower salinity and rebuild eroded farmland.

🇧🇷 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.

🇬🇧 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.

🌍 Global · SUGi

SUGi turns vacant urban lots and parking strips into dense, native pocket forests that cool neighborhoods and rebuild biodiversity within a few growing seasons.

🇨🇳 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.

🇸🇦 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.

🇮🇳 India · SayTrees Environmental Trust

SayTrees packs dense Miyawaki mini-forests into Bengaluru's leftover urban land to cut heat and clean the air, one former parking lot or roadside strip at a time.

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Shambala Festival

This Northamptonshire music festival banned single-use plastic, went meat-and-dairy-free and now plants its own woodland every year, proving a multi-day festival can also be a climate project.

🇹🇷 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 · TIST

Farmer-led small-group network across East Africa and India that plants trees for carbon income and land restoration.

🌍 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.

🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago · Fondes Amandes Community Reforestation Project

One family's fight against annual hillside fires above Port of Spain grew into a four-decade community movement that has replanted over 200,000 trees.

🇳🇱 Netherlands · IVN Natuureducatie

IVN plants tennis-court-sized Tiny Forests on Dutch schoolyards and street corners, turning paved city plots into dense, biodiverse outdoor classrooms.

🇰🇷 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.

🇺🇸 United States · TreePeople

TreePeople plants and distributes shade trees across Los Angeles' hottest, least-canopied neighborhoods to fight extreme heat and clean the city's air.

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Trees for Cities

Trees for Cities plants and cares for urban trees, edible schoolyards and green infrastructure across UK cities to close the tree-equity gap.

🇰🇪 Kenya · Trees4Goals

A Kenyan footballer pledges eleven indigenous trees for every goal he scores, one for each player on the pitch, and has turned his pledge into a youth reforestation movement.

🇵🇰 Pakistan · Urban Forest (Shahzad Qureshi)

After Karachi's deadly 2015 heatwave, one engineer began planting dense Miyawaki forests to cool Pakistan's biggest city.

🇦🇺 Australia · Wheen Bee Foundation

Australia's charity for bees funds native pollinator research, certifies bee-friendly farmland, and helps communities plant forage trees nationwide.

🇺🇬 Uganda · Wild Forests & Fauna (WildFF)

A US nonprofit trains South Sudanese refugees in northern Uganda to replant native trees and build fuel-efficient cookstoves, reversing severe deforestation around their camp.

🇹🇱 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.