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Our Work

Discover our activities to protect, restore and plant forests across drylands.

Alto Mijares Ecosystem Restoration
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Alto Mijares Ecosystem Restoration
Fuente La Reina, Spain
2024-2026

Community-led effort to restore wildfire-affected land, creating a resilient ecosystem that supports biodiversity, captures CO₂, and revitalizes the local economy.

8,218 trees to be planted
MiMonte Project
MiMonte Project
Pego, Fuente la Reina and Ibiza
2024-2026

An initiative that empowers local communities to sustainably manage and restore degraded Mediterranean forests. The project includes awareness-raising campaigns and collaborative information sessions.

Marina Alta Ecosystem Restoration
Marina Alta Ecosystem Restoration
Pego, Spain
2024-2025

Restoration of a fire-damaged landscape with resilient vegetation and erosion control, aiming at regenerating the ecosystem and preventing wildfires.

6,756 trees planted
Altiplano Ecosystem Restoration
Altiplano Ecosystem Restoration
La Junquera, Murcian Plateau, Spain
October 2021-May 2022

Desert Leaves has provided technical Support, legal advice and financial aid to Camp Altiplano, an ecosystem restoration initiative in arid Murcia, to establish a resilient, biodiverse landscape.

10,000 trees planted
Great Green Wall Challenge
Great Green Wall Challenge
Sahel, Senegal
2018-2025

This project is part of the pan-African effort to restore the savanna along an 8,000 km strip of land to slow the advance of the Sahara desert and offer local communities the opportunity to build a prosperous future.

Fund-raising support given to Lignaverda