SEEDBALLS Kenya

Människors och djurs överlevnad hotas av den globala avskogningen, som leder till enorma koldioxidutsläpp. Men nu ska Kenyas torra jordar bli gröna igen, med hjälp av kameler, helikoptrar och slangbellor – samt av små fröbollar täckta med koldamm.

Bortglömda metoden kan hejda världens avskogning

Maxime Persdotter Wallström

Publicerad 2019-08-03

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Seedballs Kenya in the Press & Media

Many thanks to Pauline and Joe from the BBC World Service and everyone else who helped so much with this very fun documentary shoot about our work helping reseed Kenya's forests!

Seedballs Kenya will feature in the BBC series Taking the Temperature, which focuses on the battle against climate change and the people and ideas making a difference.

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Seedballs Kenya will feature in the German programme about reforestation in Kenya.

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To mark International Women’s Day on March 8, Landscapes News published a series of stories honoring women with a laurel for their dedication to improving the landscape. In this profile, Nadia De Souza of Lion Guardians wrote about Seedballs Kenya's Susie Kinyanjui.

Many many thanks to Deutsche Welle TV for this very fun short documentary on how to plant trees using a slingshot!

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How 'seed bombing' could help Kenya's dwindling forests

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Kenyan schoolchildren using slingshots to plant trees

Nairobi: Schoolchildren in Kenya are helping to fight deforestation by planting seeds using slingshots. It’s part of an initiative by the company SeedBalls Kenya, which makes and sells seedballs globally. It encourages children to have slingshot competitions using the charcoal-covered seeds instead of stones. About 2 million seedballs have been planted in Kenya in the past year and a half in what has been called “guerrilla gardening.” Kenya’s government has recognised the threat from deforestation and earlier this year imposed a temporary logging ban that was extended in May by another six months. AP

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Children planting trees to create forests of the future

In October 2018, the DSWT launched a new project aimed at inspiring school children to start planting trees. The two-pronged approach involved a large-scale seed-balling initiative in Chyulu Hills National Park (CHNP) and a tree planting competition involving 731 school children from 4 different schools also bordering CHNP.

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Seedballs Kenya: A thriving restoration enterprise changing the charcoal industry

Can these Seedballs solve

Kenya's deforestation crisis?

Pauline Mason

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Kenyan schoolchildren using slingshots to plant trees

Nairobi: Schoolchildren in Kenya are helping to fight deforestation by planting seeds using slingshots.

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Kenyan school children using slingshot technology to curb deforestation, plant more trees

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Tiny seedballs sow new trees in bare land

Can these seedballs solve Kenya's deforestation crisis?

Seed Bombing In Kenya

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Kenyan innovation takes plastic bags out of forestry

This Charcoal-Coated Seed Could Bring Kenya’s Forests Back to Life

Deforestation is causing a major ecosystem crisis in Kenya. Seedballs Kenya has created a solution to help.

by Randi Eicher

Environmentalist & Movie Star reposted the World Economic Forum's Seedballs Kenya Video.

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Yatta farmers reclaim wasteland with seed balls and catapults

Growers turn previously parched area into food basket using new, sustainable technique

By LEOPOLD OBI

Seedballs Kenya Nominated for World Index Award

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Seedballs Kenya featuring in the CNN African Voices Changemakers series.

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The world needs trees more than ever. Here’s how to plant some on your travels.

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Kenya’s forest cover is below 10% but efforts are being steered to reach that mark. But by the pace at which conventional tree planting takes place, perhaps it will take years to reach that level.

To solve this, Teddy Kinyanjui founded Seedballs Kenya in a bid to fight deforestation in the country.

So how does seedballs technology work? Follow us as we unravel the science behind this worthy cause.

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KWS to drop tree seed balls in parks and reserves using choppers

The agency targets planting 100,000 trees every year using the new method

By George Murage

Tourism and Wildlife Principal Secretary Prof Fred Segor speaks after leading a tree planting exercise at the Naivasha based Kenya Wildlife Service Training Institute. He says they are using seed balls technology to boost the forest cover. Seedballs Kenya co-founder Teddy Kinyanjui said they were targeting areas affected by massive tree cutting especially by charcoal burners.

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Syedna donates seed balls to re-green Kenya

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Usiku Games Leverages Seedballs To Curb Climate Change

Seedballs Game to help curb climate change effects through reforestation

Kenyan Tech Start-up, Usiku Games has developed the Seedballs Game to help aid reforestation of Kenya’s lost forest cover as part of the country’s target to increase its forest cover to 10 percent by 2022 from the current 7 percent.

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WDR State TV Germany

Drones, dogs, ‘cocoons’ – it’s a new age for tree planting

A look at the technologies changing the way tree seeds are planted

Global Landscapes Forum

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6 Green Groups Helping To Offset Carbon Emissions

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Climate change poses an existential threat to earthly civilization. Many solutions would require a dramatic overhaul of the existing structures of our society, so many organizations focus on the regulation of carbon emissions, reforestation of devastated natural areas, and encouragement of biodiversity as an opportunity to address the needs of the earth. This list, in no particular order, shares some groups fighting for a greener planet.

The seedballs that could reverse Kenya's deforestation. One social entrepreneur hopes that by using specially-coated tree seeds, Kenya's lost forests can be restored.

Part of our series Taking the Temperature, which focuses on the battle against climate change and the people and ideas making a difference.

Video producer: Joseph Vaneeckhout; Producer: Pauline Mason

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The throw-and-grow strategy reviving Africa's forests and pastures

The simple 'seedballs' giving

Kenya's forests a helping hand

At first glance, the round black pellets could easily be mistaken for animal dung. But these hardy little balls contain acacia seeds that are helping regrow Kenya's depleted forests.

In a tranche of razed forest bordering the Maasai Mara National Reserve, a team of rangers scatter generous handfuls of "seedballs" around the bald clearing to give nature a fighting chance to regenerate.

It takes just minutes for the eight rangers from the Mara Elephant Project, a conservation group, to toss some 22,000 seedballs across this ravaged corner of the Nyakweri Forest, which was destroyed by charcoal burners.

No, these aren't animal droppings. These little round gems, known as Seedballs, are helping to reforest Africa.

Seedballs were one of our most memorable finalists of Index Award 2019; since then, they've made waves all over the world. From international features on virtually every major news network, from CNN to the World Economic Forum, to inspiring new Seedball chapters to open-up across Africa and Asia.

The simple 'seedballs' giving Kenya's forests a helping hand

The simple 'seedballs' giving Kenya's forests a helping hand

Trees were felled en masse by colonial administrators to fuel a train across East Africa, while land today is cleared for agriculture and charcoal production as Kenya's population grows upward and outward.