Welcome to Trees for Hope’s Website

In today’s world it is easy to fall into despair.

The old world is cracked.  Its structures, institutions, and financial systems are not capable to meet our needs.

While we live through the mass sixth extinction, live-streamed genocides, massacres of unarmed citizens, our most basic need, protection of life itself, is challenged.

And life rises, undeniably, with ten thousand faces from every nook and cranny.

Here at Trees for Hope, we are committed to care for the tender life rising on two different landscapes.  The Atlantic Rainforest on the West Coast of Scotland, and the ecosystems of the Fertile Crescent, to the east of the Mediterranean Sea and the West of the Himalayan Mountains.

These two landscapes are geographically vastly distant, and ecologically intimately connected.  Take the flight of the common swift, Apus apus.  It migrates from the Fertile Crescent, breeds across the UK, including the West Coast of Scotland.  It spends most of its life in flight.  Its fragile life entirely depends on healthy air, insects, and climate systems.  A collapse anywhere along the route affects its whole journey.  The barn Swallow, Hirundo rustica, has a similar story.  So does the European honey buzzard, Pernis apivorus.

Like these birds, we humans too depend on healthy connections for our survival.  That is what Trees for Hope aspires to: bridging landscapes and cultures, exchanging knowledge and wisdom, increasing our skills, sharing resources to restore our ecosystems, so that the next 7 generations may inherit a richer, wilder planet.

The Atlantic Rainforest was formed after the last Ice Age about 10,000 years ago.  Its decline began with the settlement of human communities.  Now, the once pristine and glorious rainforest only exists in small isolated patches in the landscape.  What remains, about 1% of the original rainforests, may not make it to the next century due to a number of serious threats.

The landscape in the Fertile Crescent, once known as the cradle of the civilization, is also facing perilous threats, mainly due to war and human discord.  Somehow, healing our human communities and restoring the landscape in this part of the world has a pivotal role in our destiny as a species.

Trees for Hope is active in restoring the Atlantic Rainforest in Moidart.  We are also helping with rewilding the Fertile Crescent.  The two areas are our two wings.

This website is a portal for you to find your way to help with the restoration of either, or both, of these fragile and significant ecosystems.

Thank you for engaging.

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Trees for Hope is a Registered Scottish Charity  SC047707