G Adventures Shines Light on Trees for Days; Gives Coastal Kelp Help to Canada

As the world celebrates Earth Day, G Adventures is spotlighting its Trees for Days initiative which expanded in the last year and a half to include seven new community partners and a growing network of 22 communities across multiple continents, benefiting 200,000 locals.

It will also hit a major milestone of 6 million trees by the end of May.

Each tree is grown with a long-term commitment to reach maturity, with the first trees from the initiative now beginning to mature this year, three years after the program launched in 2023.

Trees for Days has been built on a model that supports partnership with communities rather than in isolation from them. Instead of focusing solely on environmental outcomes or carbon offsetting, the initiative is designed to address the interconnected challenges communities face from the climate emergency, from food insecurity and unemployment to biodiversity loss and climate resilience.

By putting local people at the centre; supporting women, uplifting Indigenous communities and creating economic opportunities, tree growing becomes a catalyst for broader change.

As the initiative continues to expand including in the Philippines with its Tribes and Nature Defenders project and in Africa with Trees for Kenya, it’s also helping closer to home. Trees for Days has partnered with Coastal Kelp, which includes the Tsawwassen First Nation, Nuchatlaht Tribe, and Lax Kw’alaams Band, working to restore marine ecosystems through an innovative “seaforestation” approach on British Columbia’s Sunshine Coast.

By installing non-invasive moorings in areas previously unsuitable for kelp growth, they have created a ‘false-bottom’ and a brand new marine habitat, which has driven a staggering ecological bounce-back, with new species of kelp returning and the area being repopulated with scallops, oysters, shrimp and rockfish.  10% of all processed kelp is given back to members as community food products and 10% of the fertilizer created is donated to community gardens.

G says “the lesson is simple: when tree growing is done right, it doesn’t just help tackle the climate and biodiversity crisis. It helps communities adapt to it, recover from it and build stronger futures because of it.”