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Podcast: The Stream (with Will & Tom)
Episode: Planting 12.5 million trees and counting – Earthshot winner Florent Kaiser on local water stewardship in Latin America
Description: How do you plant 12.5 million trees and mobilise over 40,000 local and Indigenous people across six South American countries? 🌎In this episode of The Stream, we sit down with Florent Kaiser, Executive Director of Global Forest Generation and co-founder of Acción Andina, a grassroots movement restoring high Andean forests.A past Earthshot Prize winner and recognised by the UN as one of the World Restoration Flagships, Florent shares:Why the next phase of Acción Andina is called “the path of water.” 💧How restoration ties directly to water stewardship, climate resilience, and community livelihoods.New financia...