Officials, rangers and community members planting trees together at a community event
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Planting Together: A Community Tree-Planting Event

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It was a day of green hands and full hearts. Partners, rangers, community members, women, youth and schoolchildren came together for a community tree-planting event — and celebrated every seedling with song and dance.

True to the spirit of our 366 Tree Challenge, the call was simple: everyone plants. Local leaders and forestry rangers broke the first ground, and the whole community followed — neighbours sharing watering cans, parents kneeling beside their children, and pupils proudly settling young seedlings into the soil.

Traditional dancers performing at the tree-planting event
Culture at the heart of conservation — traditional dancers celebrate the day.

For us, events like this are about more than the trees that go into the ground. They are about belonging. When elders, officials and the youngest pupils all take part, conservation stops being someone else's job and becomes a shared promise — a gift we tend together.

Every tree planted today is shade, fruit, and clean air for tomorrow. Here are a few moments from the day:

A community leader planting a tree surrounded by officials A young woman planting a seedling Community members planting seedlings across a field Two schoolchildren planting a tree seedling together A girl planting a tree seedling Rangers and community members at a tree-planting ceremony

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