Planting 100,000 Trees in Association with BBC Earth’s Eco Season

In Vietnam’s Xuan Lien Nature Reserve, One Tree Planted is working with local villagers to recover forests that have been degraded by logging, farming, and firewood collection. This will be accomplished by planting indigenous and multi-purpose tree species and will protect watersheds, control erosion, store carbon, improve air quality, and reduce the risk of landslides. It will also benefit endangered species like bears, gibbons, turtles, orchids, and more.

This restoration project focuses on planting mangrove seedlings in a lagoon that was previously damaged and degraded during civil conflict. Planting trees here will benefit marine biodiversity that depends on mangrove ecosystems, help buffer against storms and rising sea level and benefit the local community. In this area, mangroves provide habitat and breeding grounds for Demersal fish species, shrimp, and several birds. They also sequester carbon and protect the livelihoods of local fishermen and fisherwomen and local cottage industries connected to the fishery.

This project is designed to support ongoing efforts by Earthworm Foundation’s Rurality program by helping local smallholder rubber farms incorporate agroforestry trees into their rubber plantations. This will decrease dependency on rubber farming by diversifying their livelihoods, improve the resilience of their farms, restore degraded habitat on plantations and within riparian zones, improve food security, increase biodiversity, and more.

Centuries ago, much of Scotland’s native forests were cleared for agriculture, leading to habitat fragmentation, biodiversity loss, declining soil health, and more. One Tree Planted is working with our awesome partner to restore Talla & Gameshope, the wild heart of Scotland. Planting trees here will have significant biodiversity benefits for a range of plants, animals, invertebrates and birds like the black grouse, spotted flycatcher, bull finch, and kingfisher. It will also restore a riparian corridor, which will improve soil stability, reduce the risk of landslides, and maintain water quality.

Our reforestation project in Denmark will establish multi-functional woodland on marginal farmland in western Jutland that will be protected in perpetuity by the Danish Forest Act. The new forests will absorb carbon, protect biodiversity, preserve groundwater, and fix nitrogen to reduce wetland eutrophication (when a body of water becomes overly enriched with minerals and nutrients, causing an algae bloom and suffocating aquatic life). By creating a conservation area for many species of bird, mammal, and insect, including the threatened hazel dormouse, nature and biodiversity will benefit for generations to come.

Urban farmers in South Africa’s Western Cape struggle with heavy winds (from 60-160 kmph). Planting indigenous trees around their farms will provide a sustainable and cost-effective windbreak. It will also improve security, create food and medicine, increase biodiversity, create green spaces, provide jobs to local communities, reduce flooding, sequester carbon, and more.

While Iceland used to have up to 40% forest cover centuries ago, deforestation has reduced this to just 5% today. This 170 hectare area will involve planting trees on the lower, south-facing slopes on the farm “Dragon's Nest" (named after its former owner). The area is degraded former grazing land with low-growing and largely non-continuous vegetation, and a lot of ecological potential to become a forest once again. In time, this degraded and eroded land (the majority of the area) will develop more vigorous vegetation, stabilizing soils and providing habitat for biodiversity once again.