Conservation
Travel that helps restore the places you came to experience.
Planting Green Paths turns safari bookings and direct support into tree planting, habitat restoration, and community benefit.
Planting Green Paths
Every adventure experience plants trees. Experience Uganda's wildlife while restoring habitats, empowering communities, and protecting the natural wonders you explore
About Planting Green Paths
Planting Green Paths is Shakes Travel's flagship conservation initiative: a direct, scalable, and financially self-sustaining response to Uganda's conservation crisis. We believe adventure tourism should actively protect the extraordinary natural wonders that make Uganda unforgettable, not just observe them passively. Through strategic native tree planting and habitat restoration, every travel and safari experience you book contributes to conserving the ecosystems, wildlife, and communities that depend on Uganda's forests.
Our model is elegantly simple: every adventure booking generates direct funding for native tree planting along the trails, wildlife corridors, and communities that travelers visit. Over 3 to 6 years, we aim to plant 10,000 native trees across Uganda's premier adventure destinations, from Mabira Forest to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, turning every safari, gorilla trek, and river adventure into a measurable act of ecological restoration.
As a Ugandan-owned travel agency, we've witnessed firsthand how deforestation threatens the landscapes and wildlife that make these journeys extraordinary. Through Planting Green Paths, every adventure booking, tree donation, and eco-stay helps restore gorilla habitats in Bwindi, strengthen wildlife corridors in Queen Elizabeth, and protect watersheds in Murchison Falls, so your travel experience becomes a force for conservation, not just exploration.
Key Benefits
- ✓Travel and safari experiences that directly fund habitat restoration and tree planting
- ✓Plant native trees that restore Uganda's forests and create wildlife habitats
- ✓Support local communities with sustainable livelihood opportunities
- ✓Combat climate change through scalable tree planting campaigns
- ✓Create a measurable environmental legacy from your travel experience
Challenges We Address Through Tree Planting
- •Deforestation destroying the wildlife habitats that make adventure experiences extraordinary
- •Loss of forest cover reducing animal populations and ecosystem services
- •Climate change threatening wildlife and tourism sustainability
- •Limited economic opportunities for communities living near protected areas
- •Environmental degradation reducing the beauty of adventure destinations
Our Objectives
Large-Scale Tree Planting
Over the next 3 to 6 years, we aim to plant 10,000 native trees across Uganda's premier adventure destinations to restore forests, expand wildlife habitats, combat climate change, and protect the journeys travelers come to experience.
Safari-Linked Conservation
Integrate tree planting directly into adventure experiences so every safari, gorilla trek, river adventure, and wildlife encounter contributes measurable environmental restoration and community benefit.
Community Empowerment
Support local communities through tree planting employment, sustainable farming practices, and direct revenue from eco-tourism, creating economic alternatives to forest destruction.
Wildlife Habitat Restoration
Restore and expand critical wildlife corridors through strategic tree planting, ensuring the animals that make adventure experiences unforgettable have thriving natural habitats.
The Cause & Our Impact
The Cause
Uganda's forests are disappearing at an alarming rate, taking with them the habitats that make adventure experiences magical and the resources that sustain local communities. Deforestation driven by agricultural expansion, logging, and climate change threatens both wildlife populations and the livelihoods of people living in adventure destinations.
Without immediate, large-scale reforestation, Uganda's adventure experiences will diminish as wildlife populations decline and ecosystems collapse. Communities have limited economic alternatives to forest exploitation. Planting Green Paths directly addresses this by linking adventure tourism revenue to tree planting, making conservation profitable, measurable, and capable of scaling to 10,000 native trees across key destinations over the next 3 to 6 years.
Our Impact
Planting Thousands of Trees
Every adventure booking funds native tree planting that restores gorilla habitats, wildlife corridors, and forest ecosystems across Uganda's adventure destinations, with a goal of 10,000 native trees in 3 to 6 years.
Creating Community Livelihoods
Employing local tree planters and providing sustainable income that reduces pressure on forests
Restoring Wildlife Habitats
Expanding corridors and habitats so wildlife have thriving ecosystems to call home
Fighting Climate Change
Sequestering carbon through large-scale reforestation while supporting climate-resilient communities
How to Get Involved
Your participation makes a real difference. Choose how you'd like to contribute to sustainable conservation in Uganda:
Donate a Tree Today
Donate trees that will directly restore Uganda's forests, create wildlife habitats, and provide livelihoods for local communities planting and caring for them.
Book an Eco Adventure Journey
Experience Uganda's wildlife while your adventure experience directly funds tree planting projects and community conservation work in the parks you visit.
Ready to Plant Trees While Experiencing Incredible Adventures?
Every adventure experience you book plants trees. Every tree donation restores wildlife habitats and employs communities. Every eco-stay supports forest conservation. Together, we're protecting Uganda's natural wonders, one adventure, one tree, one community at a time.