A greener Nigeria starts with you
We are planting one tree for every Nigerian. This is who we are.

Our mission
Our mission is to plant 200 million trees, replacing 60% of Nigeria’s lost forest cover, and promoting sustainable land use.
Founder
Ibraheem Dooba
CEO, 200 Million Trees
A seasoned horticulturist with over a decade of experience in designing and implementing large-scale landscaping projects. Ibraheem is the CEO of 200 Million Trees, a venture that is planting one tree for every Nigerian.

In the founder’s words
Why we are planting 200 million trees
By Ibraheem Dooba. First published on 13 July 2023.
The urgent and present danger
The world is getting warmer. And when we lose 40% of our forests, the world would’ve reached a point of no-return where we would experience daily natural disasters such as heatwaves, floods and droughts.
We’re already getting there. Already, we lose 10 billion trees every year.
Accordingly, IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) reports that 97% of climate scientists agree that this unfavourable outcome is due to human activities such as carbon emissions.
Africa will die first …
But Africa contributes only 3% of the global emissions. Yet, out of the 20 countries that are most impacted, only four are not African.
What does this mean?
It means that if the world is ending, Africa will die first.
… starting from Nigeria
The case is even worse in Nigeria where we’ve already lost 60% of our forests cover to charcoal production and other developments.
This means that the destruction of Africa will start from Nigeria. And we’re already seeing the adverse effects of annual floods which lead to the displacement of entire communities and the destruction of farms and crops.
But, most importantly, it also means that we need to save ourselves.
That’s why we’re planting 200 million trees all over Nigeria – within 10 years.
Why we plant
A short film from the field.
Advisory board
Eight leaders from business, government and civil society guide our work.
Sherif Ganiyu ShagayaCEO of Octavus Petroleum
Nuruddeen LemuDirector, Lotus Bank
Sharon IkeazorFormer Minister of Environment
Amina Abubakar BelloFormer First Lady of Niger State and Founder of Raise Foundation
Mariama Anthony-WilliamsCountry Director, Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, Sierra Leone
Mustapha NajiwoExecutive Director, African Centre for Tax and Governance
Captain Abdullahi Muhammad MuyeCEO of Flints Aero Services Limited
Hafsat Abiola-CostelloPresident, Women in Africa. Co-Founder, Connected Women Leaders
Team
The people who do the work.
Jamil JibrilChief Operating Officer
Professor Mustapha ZubairuChief Architect
Abdulrauf Babangida (Dr Fish)Water Feature Engineer
Dr Nafisat Muhammad NdayankpaChief Geneticist
Dr Hajara SadiqOrganic Systems Specialist
Nana F. MuhammadBusiness Development Manager
Ibrahim Faruk MuhammadChief Technical Officer
The organisations we work with
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