WILDTRUST, an environmental non-profit organisation based in KwaZulu-Natal KZN, recently announced a partnership with CHEP, a sustainability conscious global logistics company. The partnership will help WILDTRUST realise its vision for a thriving and resilient world by planting 100000 indigenous trees during the 2024/25 planting season.
Central to this partnership between WILDTRUST and CHEP is reinvigoration of WILDTRUSTs legacy project, the Tree-preneur project. A term coined by WILDTRUST, tree-preneurs are local community members who propagate indigenous trees from seeds to a 30cm height or more. When the trees reach this height, they can be traded or bartered with WILDTRUST for livelihood support items such as uniforms or school fees, building materials, grocery vouchers and more.
To activate and launch this partnership, various tree planting events were held around KZN during Arbor Month in September when the WILDTRUST restoration teams went far and wide, reaching the public, local schools, businesses and like-minded organisations at 17 different locations, planting well over 2 000 trees. A lot more trees still need to go into the ground and support is needed to reach the goal of 100000 trees.
