Tacugama - Project Sapling - Planting Trees

On the 25th of May 2023, Tacugama alongside ‪@CrownAgents1‬, UAVAID, FCDO, the National Protected Area Authority and the Ministry of Environment engaged in a novel tree planting technique in Mansiona Village in the buffer zone of Loma Mountains National Park.
A total of 2,039 trees were tagged with QR-codes, planted in an orderly fashion, scanned with a personalized smartphone application and mapped with a drone - all in one day!
' Project Sapling' aims to use drone-based remote sensing and data management technologies to verify and monitor reforestation programmes in the country to increase investor confidence in the carbon-market in said reforested areas. If proved succesfull, Project Sapling will scale up to 1 million Trees planted in the next few years.
Video made by filmmaker Gemma Bonfiglioli