Eden Reforestation Projects is no longer our active planting partner. After it rebranded as Eden: People+Planet in 2024 and shifted to a carbon-credit landscape model that didn't fit our per-review tree mechanic, we switched to Trees for the Future in Uganda in early 2026.
See Trees for the Future, our new Uganda partner →
Eden Reforestation Projects was our long-time partner for mangrove restoration in Madagascar. Local teams replanted some of the most carbon-dense, biodiversity-rich forests on the planet, estuary by estuary. Following their 2024 reorganisation we eventually moved to a new partner in Uganda in early 2026, and we keep this page so you can see the full story.
Hired and trained local villagers to run nurseries, plant, and guard each site long-term.
Restored carbon-dense mangrove forests in estuaries stripped for charcoal and aquaculture.
Paid fair wages to the same communities that depended on the coast, through its Employ to Plant model.
Where it began for us.
Eden started in 2005, after Ethiopia's president invited Dr. Stephen Fitch to lead a restoration effort near Hawassa. The model spread to Madagascar, which became the largest operation: teams worked across more than 90 sites, dominated by mangrove restoration. By the time we joined, the cumulative Madagascar number was in the tens of millions of trees.
A look back at the mangrove restoration work in Madagascar.
Provide fair, reliable wages to people in some of the world's most under-resourced communities.
Create decent work by employing local villagers to run nurseries, plant, and guard each site.
Restore coastal mangrove ecosystems that protect shorelines and shelter marine life.
Protect and restore terrestrial and coastal ecosystems and halt biodiversity loss.
Eden's teams worked across more than 90 sites in northwestern Madagascar, replanting mangroves in estuaries that had been cleared for charcoal and aquaculture, and dry deciduous forest further inland.
67+ native tree species across 4 planting sites
