'Adopt' a tree

Replenish the planet with everything you do.

Not only do trees clean our air and water and help regulate our climate, they provide essential habitats for wildlife, provide economic outcomes, and improve our overall quality of life.

You can ‘adopt’ a tree from (in) the new forests of Timor-Leste and in doing so you are helping replenish the planet, create village-based economies, drawdown carbon from the global atmosphere and support our subsistence neighbours.

Tree planting & growing

Growing trees, planting ideas

The Rai Matak community forestry project is unlike many other tree planting programs. That’s because we are growing and maintaining trees – not just planting them – and we pay tree farmers an annual incentive payment to nurture trees on their own land.

We also monitor the growth of the trees annually using a purpose-designed community forestry platform called TreeO2. This tool means we can track trees and pay farmers for every tree they keep alive. We’re also able to calculate the carbon stored to be sold through international carbon markets, with the income returned to the farming communities.

Our approach is simple in its theory and application. We’re planting trees and planting ideas. Our innovation comes from the annual incentive payments made to subsistence farmers who maintain the trees.

Find out how Tree02 Works

When you adopt a tree, you are ‘adopting’ a tree that has been planted on a farm owned by a subsistence farmer in Timor-Leste. You will be able to see where the tree has been planted and who the farmer that is maintaining the tree. You can ‘adopt’ the tree for life (30 years), and you will be able to follow the growth of the tree. You can also adopt a tree for a year for $2 per tree.

Your contribution will be used to plant more trees which will be certified by the Gold Standard carbon farming standard and enable the farmer to generate an annual income from managing his/her trees. To date, the program has over 80,000 t of CO2e stored in the new forests through its drawdown model and raised over $1 million for subsistence farming communities in Timor-Leste.

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This project is funded by the European Union and cofunded by the Australian Government Australian NGO Cooperation Program.

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This website was produced with the financial support of the European Union. Its contents are the sole responsibility of Rai Matak and can under no circumstances be regarded as reflecting the position of the European Union.