Nature Repair Report for August 2025: Introduction
As Play It Green approaches the milestone of one million trees, mangroves and sea kelp planted, this month’s report focuses on the social outcomes your support delivers. Every site tells a story of livelihoods improved, cultures protected and ecosystems restored. This edition is dedicated to showing how nature repair can also be people repair, and how verified impact builds lasting trust.
Our work with veritree ensures that every restoration project is monitored, verified and fully transparent. You are not just helping to plant, you are helping to prove that the work is real, measurable and delivering both environmental and social results. From Indigenous-led kelp forests in Canada to agroforestry in Senegal and mangrove restoration in Kenya, these projects are transforming both landscapes and lives.
Verified Impact with veritree
We start our nature repair report for August 2025 by highlighting our partnership with veritree, which means every site is tracked using satellite imagery, drone mapping and on-the-ground data collection. Once verified, the data is stored on a public blockchain, ensuring it remains unaltered and providing complete traceability.
For members, this transparency removes uncertainty. You can see the exact locations, species planted and the impact in near real time. It also provides credible evidence to share with stakeholders, showing that their environmental commitments are backed by independent verification.
For communities, it builds trust that promises made are promises kept. This combination of technology and accountability gives our restoration projects a foundation as strong as the ecosystems they restore.
Sea Kelp Restoration – Sunshine Coast, Canada
In British Columbia’s Hotham Sound and Powell River, we work with Coastal Kelp and the Sechelt First Nations to restore bull kelp and sugar kelp forests. These underwater habitats hold deep cultural and ecological importance, sustaining Indigenous fishing and traditions for generations.
Globally, kelp forests have declined by over 40% in the last 50 years, threatening biodiversity and coastal livelihoods. By combining traditional ecological knowledge with innovative planting techniques, we are restoring habitat for species such as herring, salmon, rockfish and endangered northern abalone. The project supports intergenerational learning, youth stewardship and long-term food security, creating both a healthier ocean and stronger communities.
Agroforestry – Kedougou and Dakately, Senegal
Google Earth Link Kedougou & Google Earth Link Dakately
In Senegal, degraded land once dominated by peanut monocropping is being transformed into productive, biodiverse agroforestry systems. Working with local farmers, we are reintroducing 17 native and fruit tree species to improve soil health, protect forests and create sustainable incomes.
The results are significant. Severe food insecurity among participating farm families has fallen from 56% to 8%, a 706% improvement in access to nutrition. The project also provides thousands of days of employment, often for women, and gives communities the tools to manage their land for long-term resilience. By restoring biodiversity alongside livelihoods, these communities are becoming more self-sufficient and better prepared for climate challenges.
Mangrove Restoration – Kilifi and Kwale, Kenya
Google Earth Link Kilifi & Google Earth Link Kwale
Kenya’s southern coastline has seen decades of mangrove loss from urbanisation, overharvesting and weak governance, pushing local communities further into poverty. Our restoration work in Kilifi and Kwale is reversing this trend, replanting estuaries rich in biodiversity and providing vital fishing grounds.
Planting 316,926 mangroves has generated 3,803 workdays for local planters, creating income and building skills. These restored forests protect coastlines from erosion and storm damage, support healthy fisheries and create new sustainable livelihoods through responsible harvesting. The benefits are immediate for the people living there and long term for the environment they depend on.
Our Collective Additional Impact
- 4,049 tennis courts of agroforestry trees restored – 79 hectares brought back to life
- 3,803 workdays created – employment across Kenya, Senegal and Canada
- 706% increase in access to nutrition – improving lives in Senegalese farming communities
Nature Repair Report for August 2025: Wrap-Up
This month’s Nature Repair Report for August 2025 shows that environmental restoration is also social restoration. With veritree’s technology providing transparent proof of impact, every kelp frond, agroforestry tree and mangrove planted represents livelihoods strengthened, cultures preserved and ecosystems renewed.
As we move towards the one million milestone, your support continues to shape a future where people and nature thrive together. By combining business-led action with trusted verification, we are ensuring that every contribution makes the maximum possible difference.
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