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Restoring forests through local communities 🌱 ITF has been pioneering community led forest restoration since we were founded in 1922.

We work across Africa and in the UK, with communities planting trees, restoring forests, and strengthening communities.

21/10/2026

While out walking near Longleat in Wiltshire, UK, one of our team spotted a plaque on the ground. To their surprise and delight, it commemorated trees planted by Men of the Trees (ITF’s original name) 35 years ago.

ITF has planted countless trees up and down the country and around the world. But most of these trees ITF don’t have a plaque beside them. You could walk past them every day without knowing how they came to be there, or that someone, decades earlier, chose to support their planting.

But they’re growing strong; they’re providing homes and food for wildlife, supporting the wider ecosystem and adding beauty for those walking by.

It costs as little as £5 to plant a tree in the UK and less than three minutes to make a donation. But the impact will still be growing in 35 years - bringing delight and joy to those walking by.

Plaque reads: Replanting of Capability Browns beech lost in the 1990 storms a project of Men of the Trees

19/10/2026

Before you pick a tree for your garden, the tree has a few questions for you…
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16/10/2026

Some months back, Namataka Rose used seed funding from her local Village Savings and Loans Association to buy a cow – she hasn’t looked back since.

“I milk six litres a day, sell four litres and keep two litres for my children. The income from milk sales helps me to save money and pay school fees.”

The milk sales were just the beginning: her cow’s manure has transformed her farm’s production and she has more plans for when a calf arrives.

This is how restoration transforms landscapes and lives 🌳

14/10/2026

Just in case you don’t spend as much time thinking about tree guards as we do, we thought we’d dedicate a post to them…

These are the tubes that protect young saplings from animals like rabbits and deer, as well as from environmental factors like strong winds. Or strimmers and lawnmowers that get too close. In the past, plastic has been the standard material used.

Plastic does a good job - and if you collect them, you can reuse them for future projects. But sadly, too often people don't remove the guards which impedes the tree or creates litter.

In recent years there's been an increase in tree guard options on the market, like plastic free guards.

We’ve started working with biodegradable tree guards, which offer the same protection as their traditional equivalents, but break down naturally over time. At our planting day at Chailey School in Sussex this year, we trialled these biodegradable tree guards with students 🌱

Although biodegradable tree guards are more expensive than traditional plastic alternatives, it was important for students to see that environmentally friendly options are available. These guards will naturally break down over time, reducing plastic waste and avoiding long-term harm to the environment.

Good tree planting is made up of a whole load of small things done properly, like choosing the right species for the right sites and making sure the right aftercare is in place for them.

Thanks to the Ernest Kleinwort Charitable Trust for supporting this year’s Sussex programme and for giving us the opportunity to try new things.

📸 First picture - planting with plastic guards
Second photo - biodegradable guards

11/10/2026

In Ganzo village on the slopes of Mount Elgon, Kanyanga Annet had a plan.

She’d been earning some extra money planting trees in the national park – part of an ITF restoration project – and she knew exactly where that money would go.

She used the savings to help form a village savings group, then got a loan from the group to buy a pig. When the pig had nine piglets, new opportunities began to open up for her…

Read the full story 🐷

https://www.internationaltreefoundation.org/news/it-starts-with-nine-piglets?utm_name=sked&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_content=sked_6a8703418d5c50b0e93f6b16

10/10/2026

“When I’m here, I don’t feel alone.”

That’s how one participant reflected on their day with our ‘Healing in the Outdoors’ project. The programme focuses on people who face barriers to accessing the green spaces in their local area, including older people, those living with disabilities, families on lower incomes and refugees and asylum seekers.

Events are free, transport is provided and every activity is designed around what participants might get the most out of, from tree planting and conservation work to wildlife discovery, outdoor cooking and wellbeing walks.

The impact has been striking. People report feeling calmer, happier and more connected, many of them returning independently. One group in Banbury even went on to attend regular gardening sessions at their local community garden.

With backing from Swire Charitable Trust and CAG Oxfordshire, we’ve now produced a new practical guide to help other organisations create their own inclusive nature-based programmes.

We’re already working with organisations like Refugee Resource and Asylum Welcome, as well as local partners like Oxfordshire’s EMBS Community College, so if your organisation works with communities who could benefit from access to nature, we’d love to hear from you.

🌳 Find out more at www.internationaltreefoundation.org/uk-ireland/healing-in-the-outdoors

07/10/2026

What if planting a tree did more than grow a forest?

Swipe through to see why the right trees, planted in the right places, change lives.

At International Tree Foundation, we work alongside communities to plant trees with purpose, so they deliver lasting benefits for people and nature.

06/10/2026

Africa loses more forest than anywhere else in the world.
Between 2010 and 2020, the continent lost an average of 3.9 million hectares EVERY YEAR.

For the communities that depend on those forests for food, water and protection from floods and droughts, that isn’t a statistic, it’s a daily reality.

But the data shows that every dollar invested in land restoration can generate around eight dollars in social returns.

That’s why we focus a lot of our work in East Africa. Because here, where the need is greatest, a community-led restoration project can make a real difference 🌳

03/10/2026

An Oxfordshire church and a secondary school in western Uganda may seem like an unlikely pairing, but it’s one that’s already making a measurable difference.

The congregation of St Mary’s Iffley are helping to fund restoration projects in Bugoye Sub-County, Kasese District. With their support and the expertise of our local partner the Front for Climate Change, we’ve brought that work into local schools: establishing tree nurseries, setting up environment clubs where students learn conservation skills and getting trees into the ground.

This is a district whose communities have been hit hard by flooding and landslides, but who are, school by school, beginning to see the landscape they depend on restored.

There are many challenges they still face. Muramba Valley C.O.U. Primary School borders the Nyakalhoke stream, which has long provided water to the community but has also brought flooding that damages crops and property nearby. At Jordan Model Primary School, steep terrain leaves the grounds vulnerable to erosion and landslides, and bamboo is being planted along the banks of the Nyabyeya River to try and stabilise them.

Yet at each school the approach is the same: involve and train students, establish a nursery that’s run by a passionate environment club, then create the conditions for trees and learning to take root.

Congregations, companies and individuals can all be part of stories like this one.

Every £2 can help fund a tree and every tree planted by a student in Kasese is part of a woodland that will be standing long after their schooldays are over.

03/10/2026

📸 Some trees grown by students at King Jesus College, Kasese District, Uganda.

Can you guess what type of tree these are?

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