A year of climate action with BLUU Car Rental
12 December 2022 – Earlier this year, South Africa’s largest car rental company, BLUU Car Rental (BCR) joined forces with Food & Trees for Africa (FTFA) to stop climate change…
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Charting the Path to Sustainability: Social and Environmental Milestones of 2022
‘Eco-anxiety’, ‘climate doom’, ‘climate change distress’, ‘environmental existential dread’ and ‘ecological grief,’ are all terms that are commonly used to refer to persistent concerns about the future of Earth and…
Trees play a critical role in soil rehabilitation
A spring tree planting with Italtile Rosebank Wealth Group contributes to soil rehabilitation in an under-resourced community Global Payment Technologies plants trees at a Western Cape School. Soil is a…
A further 3000 trees planted by BLUU Car Rental in September
2 September 2022 – September is a month filled with so many good reasons to plant trees. It is World Tourism Month, Arbor Month and Heritage Month in South Africa.…
Trees can alleviate mental health challenges linked to climate change
A recent report from the Centre for Environmental Rights (CER) suggests that climate change will have profound negative impacts for the mental health of South Africans. Globally, depression is on…
Transforming from the inside for the outside: BLUU Car Rental plants 1000 trees
28 July 2022 – World Nature Conservation Day, a day observed annually on the 28th of July, stresses the need for a healthy environment. The day highlights action required toward…
Old Mutual Insure donates 1 500 trees to the Zwelitsha community
On 21 March, OMInsure made a generous donation of 1 500 trees to the community of Zwelitsha in the Eastern Cape to celebrate International Day of Forests 2022 and World…
Agroforestry promises more sustainable methods of farming
FTFA works to incorporate trees into its food gardens, and crops into its small orchards For millennia, farming has involved trees. Today, we call it agroforestry, but the concept is…
FTFA brings SA’s indigenous forests into communities
Local tree species can help fight climate change South Africa’s forests occupy less than 1% of the country, but they punch above their weight in terms of the benefits that…