Trees For Zambia 2012
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- This mini documentary is about deforestation in Zambia. It's the start of a story that needs to be told. Makhulu Productions and Greenpop want to make a feature length documentary to complete the project and tell the stories of more people affected by the problem and working on solutions. Help us make a film to highlight deforestation in Zambia and the stories of local heros promoting a culture of preservation before it is too late. We are crowdfunding to make this happen.
Join the crowd: bit.ly/GPopZam
A Makhulu-Moving Images film
Directed by Rowan Pybus
Filmed by Rowan Pybus, Sydelle Willow Smith and Kyla Herrmannsen
Edited by Kyla Herrmannsen and Rowan Pybus
Music by Nakhane Toure and Jeremy Loops
Trees for Zambia is a project by Greenpop (www.greenpop.org/)
Trees for this project were purchased by many individuals and companies who bought trees in various ways, one of which was IndieGoGo, and the highest supporter for this IndieGoGo tree raising campaign was: Love Trees (www.love-trees....)
Zambia has one of the highest deforestation rates in the world! In an effort to highlight the issue and the stories of people on the ground working on solutions, Greenpop launched their Trees for Zambia project in July 2012.
Almost 100 international volunteers and 100 Zambian volunteers joined together with school children, subsistence farmers, local business people, NGOs and others to make the project a reality. The launch event lasted 3 weeks and this is what happened:
(Click here for full details www.greenpop.or...)
4135 trees were planted in total over 3 weeks (1st to 22 July 2012).
21 schools received trees and a fun-filled day of tree planting, education and seed propagation with the pupils
775 trees (various fruits and Faidherbia albida) were planted with a women's group at Songwe village in one day at a protected vegetable gardening site that was set up by Sun International. 110 extra trees were given to the women to plant at their homes.
875 indigenous trees were planted in a reforestation effort in a concession area of Dambwa forest in partnership with Lion Encounter and ALERT. 150 extra trees will be planted at that reforestation site in the next weeks.
280 lemon trees, 27 mango trees and 509 Faidherbia albida trees were planted with a group of 8 subsistence farmers at a community organisation called Sons of Thunder and the amazing benefits of the Faidherbia albida tree in conservation farming were demonstrated. The Conservation Farming Unit sent their representative, Gibson Simosokwe, down from Lusaka in the first week to train the farmers and the volunteers on this technique which enriches the soil and facilitates higher crop yields by planting trees within fields. In the 2nd week, UNDP representative, Excellent Hachileka, joined us along with Sadrick Sapwe from the Department of Forestry to continue the education and help set up a micro nursery at Sons of Thunder so that the farmers can start growing their own trees. 40 extra lemon trees were given to the farmers for planting in the coming weeks.
150 indigenous trees were planted on the final day of Trees for Zambia at the beautiful Victoria Falls in partnership with the National Heritage Conservation Commission.
21 trees were planted at Maramba River Lodge were volunteers were warmly hosted - 1 tree for every day of the project.
30 handmade solar cookers were made during the 3 weeks (with each school and farmer group) to demonstrate that almost everything needed to make a working solar cooker can be found and thus it is one of the cheapest and resource-efficient methods of cooking.
His Royal Highness Senior Chief Mukuni accompanied by the District Commissioner of Kazungula and the Council Secretary joined our planting day in Songwe village, addressed the women's group and volunteers and endorsed Greenpop's tree planting and education project in Zambia. He welcomed the team to his village, acknowledged the need for trees as a result of cutting for charcoal and wooden curio making in the area, talked about the possible desertification in Zambia and even planted a tree himself.
100 Zambian volunteers signed up to help plant trees and be tree ambassadors in Livingstone over the 3-week event and beyond.
Greenpop's Trees for Zambia was the launch event for an ongoing tree planting and climate change awareness campaign in Zambia.
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, the next best time is now.
Now this is how you tell a story.
Wonderful work! Great editing and Cine,
And it looks like Rowan has mastered that Merlin!
11 years later, I needed this inspiration TODAY! Thank you GREENPOP for setting the standard and leading the way for many!
Great job . it is a good treasure for the coming generations.
Beautiful people doing beautiful things!!
This video can not be liked enough, absolutely amazing work. Mad love.
BEAUTIFUL work everyone!! Lloyd's story is just the best.
Good job on the video Rowan! Great stuff happening there.
Very excited for another Trees for Zambia project...planning is happening, trees are being raised...6 months till TFZ 2013!
wow Kyla! very well done
Great cinematography!
great work
This has warmed my heart...just beautiful work! I would love to be a part of something like this.
Good job. Very inspiring
Nice doc , good job everyone !
With so much bad in the world it is truly a wonder to watch a handful of people doing good and being the change they want to see - truly inspiring...
amazing video, great initiative and truly inspiring. Keep up with the terrificly amazing work
The rate of deforestation by transnational companies needs to slow down, and such active participation by individuals is so admirable. Sustainability!
They really need solar cookers and leds lights. I also like the soda bottle solar lights, too. I like how theh have reused materials to solve their problem. Smart of them to have the plant a little lower than the surrounding ground. It will hold water instead of running off and away.
Good information thanks for upload
I would like to see that project now after so many years. How did it develop? Are the trees still there? What is the survival rate? Are they continuing? Have the local prople stopped cutting so many trees?
Good combination. Vacation tree plantation
Excelent video!!!..... all very nice and just!!!.... it need to make holes (3X3 meters) for to stabilise the water when raining!!... and make cultur into the holes... it is complicated whith tractors!!!!... but it is the way!!... to grow threes and grasses who fix the nitrogens.... never the eucalyptus and the teak.... never the pines except the ''casuarine'' ... I love the video.. Bravo for these people!!!! God helps Us!!..
Why no eucalyptus, teak and pine tree (except casuarine)?
@@b_uppy Because these trees spend to much watter to one hundred meters deep !!!!..... on the forest of these trees there is no life, no grasses, no birds, no animals!!!!... for exemple the eucalypto kills the ground for ever!!!!...... and so one... good by... sorry my writting
@@b_uppy Casuarine does not evaporate to much water and brakes the wind!!!...
@@b_uppy The best tree is the '''ALGARROBO''' 50 varietys... from Bresil and others countries.... try to have it!!!!.... it makes food for humans and animals and fix nitrogens!!!!... his wood is fantastic!!!.... take care, any ones are toxics!!!...
@@Jean-vz8co
It's relative. Depends on the availability of water and the need for certain products.
Awesome! What kinds of trees are being planted?
I come from that country.
Fantastic video for a fantastic cause! Be the change you want to see in the world. What is the name of the font used for the title?
8 years on it would be great to see what progress has been made. Groasis Waterboxx is made by a Dutch company primarily designed to be used in tree planting but can be used for fruit and vegetable growing. The main reason to use a Waterboxx is to provide an initial H20 supply, protection from harsh weather conditions and animal predation. They've been shown to work incredibly were, even in the most unpromising conditions. There's a plastic, fully reusable version & a cardboard one that can be left in situ. Might be worth checking out given that climate change makes the annual rainfall ever more unpredictable.
I don't get why more vendors in Africa don't sell seedlings/tree saplings. Especially indigenous fruit and vines. Eg: passion fruit. Do so well in climates similar to Zambia. All it takes is a packet of fruit from chappies, dry the seeds and collect a bunch of shake shake cartons :)
Have you got this stuff being broadcast on CTV and national TV?
How is it looks today? I guess it failed in the biggest part
You got to plant lumber and fruit trees, for food and other uses. It will pay back in the future.
Palm oil plantations create a net loss in every way. I saw 20-mile square fields with nothing green on the ground, monoculture
bukamalasha nabo awe mwandi.
bushe emba ba Mukuni basa kukwela pa bangee jump atini?
Earth is a Planet to which we come back again and again and again after our body dies. When you come back in a brand new body you will encounter what you left behind on the planet from the past life. If you you cut down many trees in this life it is possible that you will be reborn in a desert a hundred or 2 hundred years later. And you will say why did they not plant trees in this place 2 hundred years ago.
Do the local people know about rocket stoves? They are easy to make and use much less fuel for cooking
its pretty stupid when its life but yet they dont have the foresight to plant to replace what they cut
Guys please support us on indigogo. Search Losing Livingstone. We have to help change the collective mindset towards planting trees, and away from the idea that they are an endless resource.
Akon