Over the last two weeks Greenpop have been in Livingstone as part of their Trees for Zambia project, planting trees at schools, community areas and even creating a future 'food forest'. Hundreds of trees have been planted in the month long event which reaches its climax this weekend with the Greenpop Earth Fest - find out more on the Zambezi Traveller website here (and also see Let's get this party started on this blog).
Trees for Zambia 2013 aims to plant 5,000 trees in schools, on subsistence farms and in reforestation sites, as well as hosting educational workshops for school children, subsistence farmers and volunteers. Everything from planting indigenous and fruit trees, working to set up micro-nursery enterprises in surrounding communities, implementing conservation education at local schools, promoting conservation farming techniques and fire prevention among small-scale subsistence farmers to raising awareness about deforestation, climate change, environmental sustainability and promoting alternative energy sources - such as solar cooking in order to reduce the region’s dependence on unsustainable charcoal burning.
Here's some photo highlights from their work over the past two weeks.
Team planting day to start Trees for Zambia - Mwandi Community school in Livingstone. Planted 20 trees.
'Uncle Ben' explaines all about charcoal kilns to the volunteers.
Zambezi Nkuku delivering trees for the project!
Finished planting another 40 trees.
And another great tree planting day at Palmgrove Basic - 30 trees.
Read more about Greenpop and their work in the Zambezi Traveller:
Planning to re-green a country (ZT, Issue 12, March 2013)
Planting for a greener future (ZT, Issue 10, Sept 2012)
Read more about the region in our destination guide:
Livingstone
Victoria Falls
Website:
Greenpop
All Image Credits: Greenpop
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