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WildFF Completed Projects<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Since 2013, WildFF has worked to protect and restore globally important forests and wildlife habitats for current and future generations. We believe that transformative change needs to happen at a local level and requires a move towards a culture of sustainability\u2014that is, one of consciousness of human impact on other people, natural resources, and the future.<\/p>\n

Our strategy has been to work directly with community leaders and place-based organizations that share our mission. This approach has been actualized in several successful projects.<\/p>\n

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Native Seeds Project<\/h2>\n

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Northern Uganda<\/h3>\n

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From 2015 to 2021, WildFF worked to conserve and restore the forests of northern Uganda through the Native Seeds Project, a collaboration with the Wise Women Uganda (Mon Ma Ryek<\/a>), a community-based organization of women healers in Gulu, Uganda.<\/p>\n

The traditional women healers\u2019 knowledge served as a catalyst for our local forest conservation and restoration project. The goal was to help the indigenous communities recover their culture and livelihoods after decades of civil war and widespread forest loss. We aimed to bring back native tree cover, which would enable the northern Ugandan communities to be more resilient in the face of climate change.<\/p>\n

The Native Seeds Program Gulu empowered local women to play a central role in building a movement of sustainable farmers. WildFF funded literacy classes that helped the Wise Women to have a greater say in their community\u2019s decision-making processes and in training sessions with the farmers. The women of the community also contributed to a WildFF-supported VSLA, a community savings program, which enabled them to save together and take microloans as needed.<\/p>\n

During this exclusively grassroots-oriented project, WildFF and the Wise Women planted more than 130,000 native trees of 20 local varieties. We also provided the local community with the tools and expertise they need to implement landscape-scale restoration, including working with more than 130 farmers to plant trees on their land and conducting numerous climate resilience workshops in each of the 10 communities.<\/p>\n

The Native Seeds Project is now a well-established program with paid staff, a seven-acre nursery and agroforest demonstration site, two native tree nurseries, and multiple year-round programs that bring education, income-generating activities, and tree planting activities that have reached 30 villages in Gulu District.<\/p>\n

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