sustainable farming

Amazon restoration success despite COVID: a Q&A interview with expert Patricia Romero

29 Jul , 2021 Blog

Amazon restoration success despite COVID: a Q&A interview with expert Patricia Romero

At Plant Your Future, our team has just finished planting a massive 40,458 native trees across the Peruvian Amazon. Despite the challenges that the pandemic brought, this planting season has been our most successful yet. This could not have been achieved without the heroic effort and dedication off our team in Peru, especially our Managing Director, Patricia Romero.  […]

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The mission of the decade: Restore our ecosystems

4 Jun , 2021 Blog

The mission of the decade: Restore our ecosystems

We’re celebrating World Environment Day (5 June 2021) as the United Nations launches a much-needed new initiative to recognise the critical and urgent need to restore the planet’s ecosystems. The goal of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration is to “prevent, halt and reverse the degradation of ecosystems on every continent and in every ocean”. […]

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Volunteers’ activities & achievements in 2020

12 Mar , 2021 Blog

Volunteers’ activities & achievements in 2020

As a small charity, Plant your Future receives invaluable support from a dedicated team of volunteers, who offer their skills to help us with a range of activities. This year, we would like to say a special thank you to: Katie Butler-Manuel: creating beautiful and inspiring content for our social media channels, Katie (pictured above) […]

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Joining forces to restore the rainforest

12 Mar , 2021 Blog

Joining forces to restore the rainforest

Last year, we started three new partnerships to raise funds for tree planting in the Amazon. By collaborating with like-minded organisations we can achieve so much more… Healthy You, Healthy Planet We’ve partnered with a team of nutritionists from Odhealth, who are helping to create healthier people and planet. They offer support and guidance so […]

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Looking back on 2020: a significant year

12 Mar , 2021 Our News

Looking back on 2020: a significant year

Discover our round-up of activities to restore the Amazon rainforest in 2020 and exciting plans for 2021… Plant your Future has been running for over a decade and there have been plenty of highs and lows during that time. Of course, there have been challenges as we work tirelessly to reverse deforestation and alleviate poverty […]

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Action in the Amazon 2020

12 Mar , 2021 Our News

Action in the Amazon 2020

Discover how Plant your Future is restoring the rainforest with native trees to tackle climate change and biodiversity loss, while alleviating poverty and building community resilience at the same time… Between 2019 and 2020, our team worked tirelessly to plant an impressive 15,703 native trees across the Amazon. This has enabled us to restore 14.5 […]

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The importance of sustainable farming

10 Jun , 2019 Blog

The importance of sustainable farming

Photo: Smallholder farmer, Hugo, showing one of his recently planted Shihuahuaco trees — a native timber. Behind, you can see the cocoa trees that are growing alongside. Each year, a staggering 160,000 hectares are cut down in the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest, often to make room for permanent agricultural land. That’s equivalent to 160,000 football fields […]

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