Here at BioPak, we don’t just specialise in compostable packaging we are also helping to benefit the replenishment and nutrition of soil. Our company’s profit-for-purpose model means that BioPak has funded planting 99,078 trees worldwide through its partnership with Ecologi.
Ecologi is an environmental organisation that champions two extremely important factors to tackling the current climate crisis – carbon reduction and tree planting. BioPak has been donating 1% of profits to community and environmental projects, including major tree-planting initiatives in the following countries.
47,959 trees planted in Mozambique
In recent years, parts of Northern Mozambique have suffered from ongoing conflicts that have caused environmental degradation issues for a population already reliant upon subsistence agriculture. BioPak has planted 47,959 trees in Mozambique to help the reforestation of damaged lands. This has formed part of Ecologi’s wider tree-planting support, which has led to 2,203,100 trees being planted across 2,002 hectares of land.
16,502 mangrove trees planted in Marotaola, Madagascar
In recent years, vast areas of Madagascar’s original forests have been destroyed, displacing entire animal species and diminishing local people’s ability to farm and live on the land. The mangrove trees now being planted as a reforestation project are helping to benefit the land, not only as a crucial carbon sink but also to provide habitats for a wide range of marine species living in the shallows and vital coastal protection from floods and storms. BioPak’s 16,502 trees planted in Madagascar form part of Ecologi’s wider tree planting, now spanning around 600 hectares.
25,192 trees planted in forest restoration in Kenya
There has been a huge amount of deforestation taking place in Kenya since the 1970s, and this has caused widespread degradation of the land. Between 1990 and 2015, 311,000 hectares of forest were lost in Kenya, but now the reforestation projects are helping to support local biodiversity – providing shelter, shade and food for many species. The trees planted are also helping areas to regenerate naturally, encouraging plants and animals to return to areas where they used to live.
1,000 trees planted in Uganda forest gardens
The area surrounding Mount Elgon in Eastern Uganda has been heavily degraded due to deforestation and over-cultivation issues. The relatively high population in the area has also put a strain on the land, which has left it almost bare in many places. This degraded land has also led to deadly landslides in the area, which pose an acute safety risk for nearby populations. However, the diverse trees planted in the 400 Forest Gardens with Ecologi will provide ecosystem services like stabilising the soil, sequestering carbon from the atmosphere, and storing it in the ground.
8,275 trees planted in Gewocha Forest, Ethiopia
The Gewocha Forest, located in the northwest of the country, is one area where deforestation and land degradation result in a poorer standard of living for residents. Here, and in the surrounding communities, a lack of effective land management means the soil is of increasingly poor quality, and land is becoming unproductive. This project aims to restore 10,000 hectares of degraded land in the Amhara region of Ethiopia by supporting the introduction of 11.9 million trees. BioPak is assisting in the progress towards this achievement and has planted 8,275 trees.
150 trees planted in Bosawas, Nicaragua
Nicaragua is the largest country in Central America, bordering Honduras to the North and Costa Rica to the South. Its Pacific coast is lined with a string of active volcanoes, and the rich soils have supported an enormous range of species over thousands of years. It is one of the poorest countries in the Americas, Ecologi works with Eden Reforestation Projects in Nicaragua. The mission is to provide fair-wage employment to impoverished villagers as agents of global forest restoration. The reforestation site we support comprises 120.5 hectares of tropical forest and encompasses four villages in the indigenous Mayangna Sauni Bu territory, where most community members are subsistence farmers.
For more information on these tree-planting projects and the positive changes, visit BioPak’s profile on Ecologi here.
