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 part of Wild Tomorrow Fund’s Sand Forest Restoration Venture. 

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

That is no unusual 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 thousands and thousands of years in the past. It covers a smaller space than another forest kind, is extraordinarily uncommon and as such, its safety is vitally vital. Right now, solely 3,540 hectares of Sand Forest are estimated to stay, of which solely 44% is protected. Consequently, this forest habitat is critically endangered.

Wild Tomorrow Fund’s Larger Ukuwela Nature Reserve, formally declared as a protected space in June 2021, added a further 10 hectares (25 acres) of Sand Forest beneath 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 vegetation, which means it requires energetic restoration.