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Trillion Trees is a joint venture between BirdLife International, Wildlife Conservation Society and WWF.

We came together to urgently speed up and scale up the positive power of forests, helping protect and restore forests to achieve one trillion trees by 2050, for the benefit of people, nature and a stable climate.

We do this by

Implementing work on the ground to protect and restore forests,
Influencing global policy and private sector practices, and
Inspiring us all to value, protect and restore forests.

With your help and support, we can live in a world where nature and people thrive.

2016-2020 Impact Report

The right trees, in the right places: Reversing global deforestation

Highlights

Amazon

Trillion Trees welcomes the ‘Protecting Our Planet Challenge’

LONDON, 22 September 2021 Trillion Trees commends today’s launch of the ‘Protecting Our Planet Challenge’, a commitment by nine organisations to pledge $5 billion to protect and conserve 30 per cent of the planet by 2030 by supporting protected areas and Indigenous stewardship of their territories. It marks the largest-ever philanthropic commitment to nature conservation and a significant step in addressing the triple crisis that threatens our planet – climate change, nature loss and economic insecurity.

Alice birdwatching with binoculars from a tower in the Pedra D'Antas Reserve

'Food forests’ could throw a lifeline to rare Brazilian birdlife in the Atlantic forest

It is something I’ve seen often during my eight years with SAVE Brasil. Meeting schoolchildren to talk about the importance of the forest and the beauty of its birds, there comes a moment when the hands fly up and they shout: “My dad hunts!” “My grandpa sets fire to the trees to clear land for pasture!” “My uncle captures birds to sell in a cage!” It happened again in Serra do Urubu, and it crystallises the challenges we face to protect and extend this exceptionally rich habitat for wildlife.

WWF Tanzania nursery

Restoring tree cover to Tanzania

You could say my career in conservation began with a single elephant. It was 2010, and I was studying for a degree in tourism management, but fieldwork took me to southeastern Tanzania, where I assisted a WWF project to tackle human-elephant conflicts in the villages of the Kilwa region.