'Adopt' a tree
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 program 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.
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.
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