young mangrove trees

Mangrove Reforestation - Madagascar

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Purchase type

By funding this project you are contributing to their work. You will receive impact reports and measurements but you won't receive a carbon credit.

Categories

Ocean Rescue
Rewilding
Reforestation
Ocean ecosystem restoration
Blue carbon
Resilience
Mangroves
Carbon
Biodiversity
Social Justice
Africa
Madagascar
East Africa
Sub-saharan Africa
Marine biodiversity
Marine protection
Coastal restoration
Marine habitat restoration
Nature-based solutions
Ecosystem services
Natural capital
Adaptation
Ecological restoration

Background

Reforestation in Madagascar is important because the destruction of the mangrove estuaries along the coastline has caused mudflats to wash into the ocean, destroying once-productive fisheries and increasing the vulnerability of coastal communities to hurricanes, tsunamis, and floods. In the dry deciduous forests, deforestation threatens one of the world’s rarest and most diverse forest systems.

Why did we choose this project?

Reforestation at scale is vital if we are to restore our world. Eden has a high impact approach to reforestation, whereby a variety of native trees are planted in ways that aim to return a forest to its natural state.

How does it work?

With 93 project sites, Madagascar is Eden's most prolific reforestation and poverty alleviation project nation. They have extensive infrastructure such as guardhouses, fire towers, and seed banks. They also developed a training center for local nursery managers to gain hands-on experience in seedling management and effective reforestation techniques.

How do we know it's working?

We work closely with Eden to monitor the impact of your funding. Since they started, they’ve had incredible results - planting more than 776 million trees around the world in Ethiopia, Madagascar, Nepal, Haiti, Indonesia, Mozambique, Kenya, Nicaragua, and Honduras.

Star fact

In 1900 48% of the land's surface was covered by forests, and by 2018 that had fallen to 38%. It is critical to restore forests globally, they are home to 80% of the world's terrestrial biodiversity and approximately 2.6 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide, one-third of the C02 released from burning fossil fuels, is absorbed by forests each year.


UN Sustainability Goals

01 No Poverty03 Good Health and Well-being08 Decent Work and Economic Growth13 Climate Action14 Life Below Water

Verified by Pinwheel

28 Feb 2021

Location

Madagascar, Africa

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