Eden: People+Planet

A landscape-restoration organisation, formerly Eden Reforestation Projects (renamed in June 2024), partnering with communities in eight countries across Africa, Asia and Central America and reporting five active carbon projects. It is a US 501(c)(3) non-profit founded in 2005 and based in Glendora, California, whose Employ to Plant model hires people from communities beside degraded land to collect seed, run nurseries, plant and guard forest. It reports planting well over 900 million trees (977 million on its Wikipedia profile) at about 15 million a month, with mangrove restoration in Madagascar, Mozambique and Indonesia, initial mangrove survival above 80% at those sites, and 40-year community agreements. Bezos Earth Fund funds its restoration and tree-production capacity in Kenya, Madagascar and Mozambique, and it holds a 4-star Charity Navigator rating and a Candid Platinum transparency seal.