🙌🏿 Today, we proudly launch #TerraFund’s third cohort of 53 locally rooted restoration champions. These leaders will restore Africa’s most vital landscapes across Burundi, Ghana, Kenya and Rwanda. In close collaboration with TerraFund’s partners Realize Impact, Vumbuzi Impact Africa Foundation and One Tree Planted, these community non-profits and local enterprises will: 🌱Grow 6,061,000 trees 🌲Restore 16,200 hectares 👏🏾Create 13,200 jobs 💰Directly benefit 60,600 people This cohort represents the highest quality and most targeted investment in the #RestoreLocal landscapes to date — proof that locally led restoration is the most effective way to revive land, strengthen livelihoods and protect biodiversity. Check out TerraFund’s journey since 2021👉🏿 https://bit.ly/41z4suX
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The figures here deserve more scrutiny than the headline format invites. 43.6 million trees grown is not the same as 43.6 million trees surviving, establishing root systems, and contributing to functional ecosystem recovery. Survival rates in dryland restoration contexts routinely run well below 50 percent in the first three years, and the difference between trees planted and trees contributing to restored land cover is substantial. Similarly, 121,000 hectares restored is doing a great deal of definitional work. Restored toward what baseline, at what canopy cover threshold, verified at what point in the recovery trajectory? The employment and community benefit figures carry even more uncertainty. 138,000 people employed across a six-year programme and 251 projects is a meaningful number if those are sustained livelihoods. The methodology behind those figures determines whether they represent durable economic change or participation in a planting event. None of this diminishes the work. But the restoration sector’s credibility with serious investors depends on honest figures, and honest figures require transparent methodology. What counts as a tree, what counts as restored, and what counts as employed should be answerable questions