EDEN REFORESTATION PROJECTS
Plant Trees | Save Lives
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
The destruction of healthy forest systems causes so many different problems. Trees provide a habitat for animals, purify water sources, control flooding and erosion and help to replenish the soil with nutrients needed for farming. When farmers can’t grow anything their farms fail and they have no option but to move to the overcrowded cities looking for work. Often they have to resort to selling themselves or their families into slavery just to survive.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Poverty Alleviation and Reforestation
Eden Reforestation Projects “Eden” is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that provides restoration and community development through nature-based solutions to climate change. By working directly with local communities, Eden empowers them with sustainable livelihood options to restore their natural environment. This is a key part of ensuring that communities benefit from the landscapes they depend upon in a sustainable manner.
Currently, Eden has 273 project sites across 10 project nations in Africa, Asia, and America. Eden employs over 12,270 individuals in underserved regions who are actively restoring over 75,475 hectares of land. By working directly with local communities, Eden empowers them with sustainable livelihood options to restore their natural environment.
Haiti
Years of ecological devastation in Haiti has led to some serious consequences including, but not limited to, varying levels of crop failure, flooding, soil erosion and water table depletion. In Haiti, the destructive impact that environmental systems can have is exacerbated due to the lack of protection that native forests and mangrove systems provide. To combat this, Eden Projects has been working directly with Providence University, and local community leaders through its partnership with Agrinotech and Amiga Island Ecological Foundation, to plant, protect and guard trees to maturity. In doing so, Eden Projects hopes to help restore the natural environment as well as provide agroforestry trees for food security.
Indonesia
An estimated 40 million rural dwelling Indonesians rely heavily on the biodiversity of their environment for subsistence needs. Traditional fishermen rely on the wetland ecosystems all around the islands, including mangroves, coral reefs and sea grass for their livelihood. In the last 3 decades, Indonesia has lost over 40% of its mangrove forests, affecting not only the environment and the species that rely on them but also the communities that depend on this ecosystem for survival. Eden Reforestation Projects is working with local villagers on Biak Island and West Java to restore, replant and protect these unique and vital forest systems.
Madagascar
Eden Reforestation Projects launched its Madagascar project sites in 2007 by restoring ecologically devastated mangrove estuaries in the northwest of the country. Mangrove forests are essential ecosystems whose dense roots serve as an anchor for the soil and coastline preventing erosion and creating a barrier between harsh ocean systems and land. What began as primarily mangrove restoration and reforestation in 2007 grew to include a variety of native dry deciduous species in 2012.
Eden Projects partners include two National Park systems, which aim to reforest and revive natural habitat for endangered and endemic animal species.
Mozambique
Mozambique is located on the eastern coast of Africa with 68% of its population living in rural parts of the country. This Eastern African country is home to 20 globally threatened bird species, and over 200 endemic mammal species. With over 45% of the population living beneath the poverty line, the population relies heavily on its natural resources and forests for survival.
Historically home to vast mangrove estuaries and forests, Mozambique’s mangroves have been largely decimated and destroyed.
Eden Reforestation Projects is working with local communities and villagers to restore, replant and protect these precious forest systems.
Nepal
Eden Reforestation Projects is working to support poverty alleviation and environmental restoration across the country and has already planted over 3 million trees. Starting in 2015, Eden has been working in 3 distinct regions across the country, including a partnership with Chitwan National Park, a World Heritage Site in Nepal. By partnering with the National Park system, Eden Projects is helping to protect and create a reforested buffer zone that is vital to protect animal habitat.
Kenya
Kenya is an incredibly beautiful place from the creativity of the people to its diversity of its landscapes and wildlife. From the highlands to the coast, Kenya has an incredible diversity of forest types that have long-supported communities and wildlife. The cultural and ecological heritage of Kenya’s forests is vibrant and unique, but the management of them in recent decades has been unsustainable.
Eden’s work around the world aims to alleviate poverty and restore socio-ecological systems through intensive reforestation work in a variety of forest habitats. From empowering women to sequestering carbon, the impact of the work is multifaceted. The need and enthusiasm for reforestation in Kenya is great. From the highlands to the coast, Kenya has an incredible diversity of forest types that have long-supported communities and wildlife. The cultural and ecological heritage of Kenya’s forests is vibrant and unique, but the management of them in recent decades has been unsustainable.
Join us as we are working towards launching this work in The Great Rift Valley and the Northern Coast in Kenya.
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of trees planted
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults, Economically disadvantaged people
Related Program
Poverty Alleviation and Reforestation
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Grand Total Number of Trees Planted. These numbers include natural regeneration.
Our Sustainable Development Goals
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Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Eden Reforestation Projects “Eden” is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that provides restoration and community development through nature-based solutions to climate change. By working directly with local communities, Eden empowers them with sustainable livelihood options to restore their natural environment. This is a key part of ensuring that communities benefit from the landscapes they depend upon in a sustainable manner.
Currently, Eden has 273 project sites across 10 project nations in Africa, Asia, and America. Eden employs over 12,270 individuals in underserved regions who are actively restoring over 75,475 hectares of land. By working directly with local communities, Eden empowers them with sustainable livelihood options to restore their natural environment.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
At the center of Eden Reforestation Projects is our relationships with local communities. We work alongside them to produce, plant, and protect tens of millions of trees every month, thereby creating jobs to support them in restoring their local environment and economy long-term. Working in extremely remote settings, our national directors lead these communities with grit and relentless determination through a range of challenges, from extreme weather and landslides, to poachers, bandits, and wild animals.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
The Employ to Plant methodology of employing the local community to reforest their own environment fosters a deep connection between the community and the land. Reforesting and protecting the land encourages the local communities to invest in the success and growth of the trees, which they begin to love and care for. Over time, the improvement of traditional income generating activities such as fishing and farming also help the community understand the direct benefits they receive from a healthy forest.
Eden Projects only works with large-scale, long-term projects. By doing so, it provides long term poverty alleviation, and employment while encouraging the local communities to continue their traditional income earning activities simultaneously.
When extreme poverty is alleviated, families can then begin investing in micro-enterprises, larger numbers of children can be enrolled in school, an increase in access to healthcare is possible and previously poverty stricken families can then afford to save and plan for their future.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
“Eden Projects began planting trees on March 12, 2005. Over the course of the past 14 years, we’ve put over 485 million trees into the ground. Living on the edge of uncertainty has never stopped Eden Projects from taking risks and moving forward - at least not for long. Without great risk, there’s rarely great reward. Let’s continue to climb higher until extreme poverty is eliminated and the world’s forests are restored.” - Steve Fitch
977 million+ trees planted
10 countries
280 project sites
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EDEN REFORESTATION PROJECTS
Board of directorsas of 03/18/2024
Mike Kilbane
Michael Kilbane
Geoff Barker
Roger Hoesterey
Eric Stathers
Patricia Vos
Patrick Gaston
Pete Chiarelli
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? No