PLANTING BEGINS AT UKUWELA’S SAND FOREST — Wild Tomorrow Fund

It was a recent inexperienced begin for a critically endangered forest, with the primary saplings planted to launch the tree-planting section of Wild Tomorrow Fund’s Sand Forest Restoration Venture. 

A bunch of 27 L’Occitane staff from throughout South Africa traveled to our Higher Ukuwela Nature Reserve and labored alongside our staff of 14 Zulu group girls (the ‘Inexperienced Mambas’), our rangers and workers, to plant timber whereas studying hands-on about wildlife conservation and forest restoration.  Over 500 native timber had been planted in a single day, marking a giant begin to the reforestation section of the venture which goals to plant 10,000 timber throughout the following two years.

That is no extraordinary tree-planting venture. South Africa’s Sand Forest is a novel and fragile forest that grows on the remnants of sand dunes left behind when the ocean receded eastward to the present shoreline hundreds of thousands of years in the past. It covers a smaller space than some other forest sort, is extraordinarily uncommon and as such, its safety is vitally necessary. Right now, solely 3,540 hectares of Sand Forest are estimated to stay, of which solely 44% is protected. Because of this, this forest habitat is critically endangered.

Wild Tomorrow Fund’s Higher Ukuwela Nature Reserve, formally declared as a protected space in June 2021, added an extra 10 hectares (25 acres) of Sand Forest underneath authorized safety in South Africa. Nevertheless, these remnant areas of sand forest have been broken by prior cattle farming and the unmanaged take-over of invasive crops, which means it requires energetic restoration.