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3rd July 2025 | Stuart Blanch | 0 comments

Trees, the tree and the Tree

By Stuart Blanch, Chair, A Rocha Australia. I love trees. Standing under a tree, I am in awe, still, observing: trunk towering, branches arching, leaves filtering, birds calling, cicadas buzzing. Reaching upwards […]

Categories: Facing the Future Reflections

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4th April 2024 | A Rocha International | 0 comments

Reforesting the world

How one farmer’s dogged persistence and a resolute faith in God has successfully brought back forest to over 6 million hectares in West Africa and counts 240 million trees to […]

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Tags: agriculture forest Niger

2nd December 2020 | Murray Tessendorf | 3 comments

A forest epiphany: the power of immersive environmental education

She wasn’t dressed for the outing! A beautiful young Zulu lady got into my pickup truck: her form fitting ankle length dress and high heels were hardly the appropriate attire for exploring the Ferncliffe Forest where A Rocha South Africa has, for the last decade, run a forest rehabilitation project.

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Tags: environmental education forest South Africa