The Greenpop annual Reforest Fest is contributing towards the creation of an ecological corridor between the Platbos Forest Reserve and the Grootbos Nature Reserve. Since 2010 Greenpop has planted over 100,000 trees in the Platbos Forest Reserve. Most of this land, situated in the Overberg Region of South Africa’s Western Cape Province, was once a coastal sand forest. Today the land is mostly degraded agricultural land. Greenpop is working with Bodhi Khaya Retreat to reforest the land through alien invasive plant management and active planting of indigenous tree seedlings. This is the home to the Cape Mountain Leopard, Honey Badger and numerous other critically endangered species due to loss of habitat. Greenpop’s restoration work is expanding these habitats to give these keystone species a fighting chance of surviving into the future. Additionally, some of the trees of this Southernmost forest are over 1,000 years and represent the old growth matriarchs of biodiversity. The protection of these trees and the legacy they hold is critical to our human existence and the resilience we have in overcoming biodiversity loss and climate change.