Burkina Faso

There’s hardly a place more vulnerable to climate change than northern Burkina Faso. Planting trees here restores desertified land to its former fertility, curbs violent conflict by creating employment, improves nutrition through agroforestry, and encourages communities to take charge of their future.

Tree planting

Your trees in Burkina Faso and Mali

There’s hardly a place more vulnerable to climate change than northern Burkina Faso. Planting trees here restores desertified land to its former fertility.

Burkina Faso

Forests are disappearing. We need to revive the forest within us: a movie

Our tree-planting partners in Burkina Faso have made a movie entirely filmed around the sites where your searches plant trees. A movie about the fate of the Sahel’s forests and its people.

Burkina Faso

How your searches brought a desert back to life

Each year, entire villages come together to dig seedbeds in half-moon formations. Saydou Kalaga is a driving force behind all of this.

News

50! Million! Trees!

50 million trees means 2.5 million tonnes of CO2 removed from the atmosphere. But it means so much more…

Burkina Faso

From depleted desert to fertile forest

Before the rainy season, villagers dug seedbeds to prevent rain from running off. The results are breathtaking.

Podcast

The people we meet

In this bonus episode of the Ecosia podcast, we take you behind the scenes of our reforestation projects in Burkina Faso and Ethiopia.

Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso: a beginning in pictures

About a month ago, just before the rainy season, we visited our reforestation project in Burkina Faso. Here's what we saw.

Burkina Faso

How tree planting empowers women

Sawadogo is the women’s representative of Gongho, a village in northern Burkina Faso.

Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso, one year on

It’s been more than a year since thanks to your searches we started supporting a tree planting project in Burkina Faso.

Burkina Faso

What do communities think of Ecosia’s tree-planting program?

We wanted to find out, and that’s why we conducted an interview with members of the communities of Lilengo and Béléhédé.

Burkina Faso

How we plant trees in Burkina Faso, rain or shine

Your searches on Ecosia are bringing rainfall, lakes and rivers back to Burkina Faso in western Africa. The tree-planting program that we ar

Burkina Faso

These are your first trees in Burkina Faso

They may still look tiny, but these two brave little sprouts of Acacia Senegal are the first of the trees you helped us plant in Burkina Fas

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