1 billion trees
You play. We plant. The world prospers.
Play-to-Plant™ in the EverForest
BE A FORCE OF NATURE
YOU PLAY
Escape into the EverForest to grow, merge, and discover…
Grow, merge, discover, and adventure in the EverForest mobile game. As you play and build a flourishing forest in-game, we’ll plant real trees on your behalf. Every real tree planted will reflect your own, individual impact and will contribute to the real-time, cumulative, global impact of players around the world. Together, we’ll use the power of people, play, and planting to re-green the planet.
WE PLANT
Grow your forest in-game and we’ll plant trees in the real world
We work with with top organizations dedicated to going above and beyond planting. The best partners care deeply about sustainable forestry, agriculture, reforestation, conservation, and biodiversity. Together with our partners and the humans who live in and around the EverForest Planting Projects, we’re going to plant, grow, and care for trees—and strengthen communities as we re-green the world.
WORLD PROSPERS
Together, let’s re-green the world
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Trees are universally loved—in part, because they’re beautiful and endlessly extraordinary. They clean our air, provide habitats for animals, improve mental health, make busy city centers into shady refuges, lessen the detrimental effects of extreme weather events, and more. We’re committed to making a positive impact around the globe through our EverForest Planting Projects. Together, we can transform the fun of games into living, breathing, diverse forests that can positively impact the world—and everyone in it.
Our Projects
The EverForest team is working with EarthLungs Reforestation Foundation in Kenya to help fund reforestation. Partnering with the Kenya Forest Service, we've joined the "Adopt-a-Forest" program to support planting efforts. Before this project, local communities faced high unemployment, habitat loss that affected fisheries, and rapid deforestation. Today, a number of local jobs have been created for community members in need and mangrove and bamboo nurseries have been established. Over five years, this project will be expanded to benefit more communities, improve fishing and crab stocks, help control extreme temperatures, and prevent soil erosion—ultimately fighting climate change by capturing carbon.
Current Project:
Kenya, Majaoni, Mtwapa County - Phase 1
Kenya's forests are important for the ecosystem. They support diverse wildlife and provide essential resources to people in surrounding communities. The Kenyan government aims to restore 5.1 million hectares of forest, collaborating with local communities, nonprofits, businesses, and the government to enhance environmental sustainability and resilience. When you play EverForest, you’re contributing to these efforts. Thank you for playing and planting.
EverForest Play-to-Plant™ Projects & Partners
JOIN THE EVERFOREST ALLIANCE TO PLANT TREES AND GROW AND CARE FOR FORESTS AROUND THE GLOBE
We choose our tree planting partners and projects with care to reflect our own mission to re-green the world. Partnering with organizations that understand the importance of working with people at a grassroots level to plant, grow, and protect forests in their communities, we’ll strengthen and diversify global ecosystems so that forests around the world can flourish and people and our planet can thrive.
EarthLungs Reforestation Foundation
EarthLungs understands that trees are the lungs of the earth and vital to people and the planet. They partner with organizations and community members living around and adjacent to public gazetted forests to rehabilitate, reforest, conserve and protect degraded forest lands back to healthy indigenous forest ecosystems. In the process they ensure impoverished people can benefit from decent wages for decent lives.
One Acre Fund
One Acre Fund supplies farmers with the farm supplies and training they need to grow more food and earn more money. They believe that tree planting is Africa’s single most powerful intervention at the intersection of climate and poverty for smallholder farmers. It is a cost-effective way for rural households to build assets and to take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere to help tackle the climate crisis. One Acre Fund is championing Africa’s largest and most efficient farmer-led tree planting initiative — to plant 1 billion trees by 2030.
FAQs
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Carbon Counts® and the EverForest® game have an internal team that vets all reforestation partners and the projects we support. We strive to plant the right tree, at the right time, in the right place, with the right partners using a five pillar approach.
Our approach includes location, design, tree species, socio-economic factors that drive deforestation, and monitoring and evaluation. These pillars ensure transparency, effectiveness, and long term sustainability of our tree planting projects.
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Carbon Counts is not a charity. It’s a registered Public Benefit Corporation in the state of Delaware. A Public Benefit Corporation is a for-profit corporation that is intended to produce a public benefit and to operate in a responsible and sustainable manner. We are also a certified B Corporation. As a B Corp, we’re part of a global community of businesses that meet high standards of social and environmental impact.
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Currently we have partners that plant trees in Kenya and Rwanda. Long term, we’d like to support reforestation projects all around the world. For that, we need your help! The more people who play EverForest, the more we can add reforestation projects.
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The trees are planted by our reforestation partners, EarthLungs Reforestation and One Acre Fund. EarthLungs works in partnership with the Kenya Forest Service through their “Adopt-A-Forest” program. They hire unemployed and underemployed community members in and around the project area to do the tree planting. One Acre Fund works with smallholder farmers in rural areas of Africa providing education and support to plant trees that will benefit them and their community.
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Reforestation is what is called a “Nature-based solution for climate change” because forests and the trees that grow in them take carbon, the main driver of climate change, out of the atmosphere as part of their life cycle. Trees absorb about one third of global greenhouse gas emissions every year and store carbon in their trunks and the root systems in soil. They purify and clean the air we breathe, provide habitats for animals and other plants protecting the planet's biodiversity, cool the earth by providing shade, prevent soil erosion, clean toxic chemicals released into the environment and studies have even proven they improve our overall health and well-being!
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The trees that are planted are determined by our reforestation partners. They have in-house expertise on reforestation and they evaluate every project site with external experts, community partners, local, regional and national governments to ensure that the trees planted are the right species for the area. They also ensure a wide variety of species native to the area are planted taking into consideration the soil, geography, climate and understanding the types of trees that flourished naturally in the area prior to deforestation.
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Small changes make a big difference when a lot of people take action! In fact, there is research that says 5 concrete actions matter a lot—if just a small percentage of people in the United States did these 5 things, we would be able to reverse the amount of carbon going into the atmosphere which is the main driver of climate change. These actions are: Adopting a plant-rich diet, reducing food waste, rethinking transportation (one less flight per year and going car free), using clean energy or less energy, and rethinking what you need to buy and if you do need to buy something, use the three “r’s”: reducing, reusing, or recycling.
Here is a great source for more info!
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We’d love to hear from you! If you’re a business and would like to sponsor trees in EverForest, contact us here and let us know a bit about your company. If you’re a reforestation organization, we are not currently onboarding new partners until our player community grows and the number of trees earned by players grows with them; however, you’re welcome to provide us with a link to your website and a short paragraph about your project. If we believe it’s a fit, we’ll reach out to you.