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Introducing a different Element into the Wildlife Corridor

Introducing a different Element into the Wildlife Corridor -source seeds - Precious Tree Project

We were introduced to something completely different in our volunteer planting session this month: we planted out a bio-mimicked forest patch comprising a range of endemic tree species in Wilderness Heights with Source Seeds donated by The Crystallized Roots Movement. The purpose of The Crystallized Roots Movement, under the auspices of Earth Change, is to plant trees with a higher biophoton count in the soil using Source Seeds.

Source Seeds are ceramic balls designed to create biophotons, allowing the trees an opportunity to learn and connect with the world in a new way. Their goal is to plant 1 000 000 Source Seed trees across the globe and Precious Tree Project took up the offer of planting 53 of them in the Wildlife Corridor we are currently clearing and reforesting. While we believe in keeping the reforestation process as natural as possible, we thought we’d give this group of trees a boost of biophotons. We’ll keep you posted on developments and see how these precious trees compare in growth to that of their family of forest trees surrounding them!

A big thank you to all you wonderful sponsors whose support makes the growth and expansion of this wildlife corridor possible.

A big thank you to Josie Crook and The Crystallized Roots Movement for the sponsorship of these Source Seeds.

A big thank you to all our volunteer planters who continually pitch up to plant trees, grow our forests and expand this wildlife corridor!

Here’s to all of us learning and connecting with the world in a new higher vibrational way!

If you are interested in The Crystallized Roots Movement, visit earthchange.org.

If you would like to support our ongoing efforts of assisted regeneration of our forest biome, click here!

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The Bigger Business of Assisted Reforestation

The Bigger Business of Assisted Reforestation -Libertas Frm 27 February 2021 - Precious Tree Project

Assisted reforestation is more than just planting out indigenous trees in bio-mimicked forest patches, creating much needed jobs, restoring biodiversity, filtering the air, water and soils etc. Ultimately, in the bigger picture, it is about assisting the natural balancing of our ecosystems and restoring the health and well-being of our natural environment upon which our own the health our own health and well-being depends. It may well take a decade or two, but we are investing in the future in terms of what we are leaving behind for the generations (of both human and animal) to come.

So of course, we love it when the bigger businesses get this Big Picture and get involved. Kevin Coyne and Coyne Healthcare SA have been contributing to PTP’s vision of expanding the indigenous forests in the Garden Route with their ongoing sponsorship and we have been directing these funds towards the rehabilitation of one of the wildlife corridors running through the farmlands in Hoekwil.

Our happy group of VIP’s got their hands dirty yet again in a volunteer planting session to put more these precious trees in the ground.  We’ll keep you posted on the growth and expansion of this corridor.

Thank you Kevin Coyne, Coyne Healthcare SA and our very important planters who have made this expansion possible!

If you would like to support our ongoing efforts of assisted regeneration of our forest biome, click here!

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Celebrating Arbour Week

Arbour Week - get involved and volunteer

On the 18th of September, the team at the Garden Route Botanical Gardens in George hosted a day of tree planting – honouring the gift that mother nature extends to us in the form of trees by planting trees. 

Precious Tree Project, in collaboration with Jon Morley’s Tour de Burn project, donated a range of indigenous forest trees and Keurboom seeds on the day to assist them with their passionate restoration and reforestation efforts. Our enthusiastic team of volunteers joined in with those of the Botanical Gardens to plant out 143 precious trees on the day. Thank you!

Happy Arbour Week!

  • Arbour Week - get involved and volunteer

If you would like to sponsor an indigenous forest tree, click here to visit our online tree shop.

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Expanding the Wildlife Corridors

PTP Shamboh Wildlife Corridor - Expanding the Wildlife Corridors

One of the incredible benefits of planting out bio-mimicked forest patches and assisting the reforestation process of the indigenous forests in the Garden Route region is the value this brings to our wildlife, particularly i.t.o assisting their survival rates.  As one of the few natural forest biomes in South Africa, our Garden Route forests are home to many species of our four-legged wildlife:  the region is a well-known haven to the Knysna elephant, rooikat, leopard, bushbuck, vervet monkeys, porcupines, baboons, etc. Not to mention the bird, reptile and insect populations that thrive when the forests are healthy. A haven is more than a safe space for our circulating wildlife, it is also a fundamental ongoing source of food for them, from the forest trees themselves and from the forest floors.

Factors including the rapid increase of human activity and development in the area, climate change, the uncontrolled spread of highly invasive non-indigenous trees (which themselves compete for water amongst themselves) all have had a negative impact on our local forests – and therefore on the territory in which our wildlife naturally roam, breed and feed.

Re-establishing and protecting wildlife corridors is a key component of our reforestation efforts and between April and August this year, in slow, regulated lockdown-motion, we got stuck in with small groups of volunteers at a time and took on the task of rehabilitating a site that is regularly traversed by troops of baboons, vervet monkeys, by bushbuck, porcupines and a rooikat. The task is one of both clearing the invasive wattle and blackwood trees that have infiltrated the site from the neighbouring state owned property and then planting out a range of endemic tree species in the spaces that were cleared. And so the assisted reforestation and natural regeneration of the forest floors begin …

Thank you to all donors for their contributions that make projects like this possible  – we planted out over 100 precious trees to grow the wildlife corridor, which included outeniqua yellowwood, boekenhout, forest elder, cape chestnut, cape beech and keurbooms.

And thank you to all our enthusiastic VIP’s who pitched in (as and when regulations allowed) and got their hands dirty!  A much needed grounding reconnection to mother earth in a year when being outdoors and in nature has been sorely needed!

If you would like to support our ongoing efforts of assisted regeneration of our forest biome, click here to sponsor trees!

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Thirty Sponsored Precious Trees Sent to Heaven

While there is still much work to be done on many private properties across Wilderness and Hoekwil w.r.t the clearing of non-indigenous trees and vines, and the many hazards their presence imposes on the area, Alan Fowle and Mandy Basson, have quietly been clearing and rehabilitating their property – HeavenSent – in Hoekwil, to make way for the regeneration of the endemic indigenous trees and the regrowth of the forest floor.

With our very important planters behind us and eager to get stuck in, we gave Al and Mandy’s regenerative efforts a boost. These ongoing restoration attempts of bio-mimicked forests are part of our vision to restore biodiversity, create a larger haven for our wildlife, address carbon levels in our atmosphere, reduce runaway fires, create employment etc.

Thank you Mandy and Al for being custodians of the land that our sponsored trees can call home. If you would like to assist us in our vision, click here to sponsor trees!

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Growing the Indigenous Forest at the Botanical Gardens

Growing the Indigenous Forest at the Botanical Gardens - Precious Tree Project
Growing the Indigenous Forest at the Botanical Gardens - Precious Tree Project

The Botanical Gardens in George has been slowly re-establishing an on-site indigenous forest on their grounds. PTP and its very important volunteer planters, gathered together in December for a final tree planting session of the year and planted out 40 indigenous trees – adding to the newly established mini forest the Botanical Gardens set up earlier on in the year with help from GreenPop.

Hot, dry conditions on the day did not make planting easy and the stone-hard ground made digging the holes pretty challenging. But in true style, our enthusiastic volunteers got stuck in, dug the holes and gave these precious trees a new home! Earthworm juice & compost was added to boost growing conditions and assist these newly planted trees until they fully established themselves in the ground.

Sponsor our vision of planting a million trees and assist the natural reforestation process along the Garden Route – Sponsor Trees!

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Volunteer Tree Planting – George Botanical Gardens 7 December 2019

Volunteer Tree Planting - Botanical Gardens, George - Precious Tree Project

Volunteer Tree Planting – George Botanical Gardens

Hi everyone, some good rains coming our way for our forests this week!

Come join our final volunteer tree planting gathering for the year at the Botanical Gardens in George on Saturday, the 7th of December 2019 @13:00.

Bring your spades and watering cans if you have. As it is the final gathering for the year, bring a picnic basket, with a plate to share, your drinks and a blanket to sit on. We hope to see all our VIP’s (Very Important Planters) there! 🌳❤

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Planting Precious Trees in a Heatwave

Planting trees in a Heatwave - Volunteer Tree Planting - Precious Tree Project
Planting trees in a Heatwave - Volunteer Tree Planting - Precious Tree Project

Volunteer Tree Planting: We spent Saturday afternoon at the Smarts’ spot – one of our Wilderness Heights mini forest sites – where we got stuck into ring-barking any Australian Blackwoods we could see and adding more precious trees to their existing mini forest.

Planting trees in a heatwave. It was hot and dry, and the recorded 16mm of rainfall a few days before didn’t touch sides to soften the ground. Still baring scars from our ring-barking efforts last month, our committed bunch pitched up in numbers and planted these beautiful trees (some of them 1.9m Yellowwoods) in what had once been a pine-infested area. This is the one of many rewards …. that we get to keep adding to these mini forests here in the Garden Route and watch them grow year on in!

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Planting a 60 Tree Mini Bio-mimicked Forest

Planting a 60 Tree Mini Bio-mimicked Forest - Volunteer tree planting - Precious Tree Project
Planting a 60 Tree Mini Bio-mimicked Forest - Volunteer tree planting - Precious Tree Project

Volunteer Tree Planting – Mini Bio-mimicked Forest: MAN Automotive sponsored 60 trees towards a mini endemic and indigenous forest. Our group of committed VIPs arrived in full force to plant out this mini forest on Libertas Dairy Farm. The work was made that much easier as a result of the clearing efforts undertaken by the Potgieters.

Thank you Linda and Johan for your ongoing time, effort and personal investment in the rehabilitation and restoration process of your land!

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Rock the Route Pitching up at School

Rock the Route Pitching up at School - Precious Tree Project
Rock the Route Pitching up at School - Precious Tree Project

Volunteer Tree Planting: Rock the Route was our sponsor for trees this month. Fourteen of them were planted out the day before (2 per grade), and the balance of them were planted out by our VIPs on the following day.

Heini Bosman, from Rock the Route, pitched up and joined in to help – little did he know that he helped us plant out the very trees his own company had sponsored. Rocking the Route indeed! Thank you Rock the Route / Pangea Trails for affording us this opportunity to enrich the natural surroundings at Hoekwil Primary.