10/10 Ian Elgie knows about the #Iroko or #Mvule tree as he and the Eastbourne United Nations Association are very involved in the Mvule Tree Planting project in #Uganda. This is an #Offsetting scheme which, of course, many are rightly super sceptical of, but anyway, here the link in case you are interested. Helping to plant #Mvule trees in Uganda probably a good thing?
https://www.unaeastbourne.org/store/p2/Carbon_Offset_Tree_Planting.html
#iroko #mvule #uganda #offsetting
For today's #ThickTrunkTuesday, a second mini-series on the "Social Life of Trees" (borrowing this from Laura Rival). Today it's the #Iroko Tree, as it is known in West Africa, or #Mvule in Uganda - #MiliciaExcelsa. It is a tree I know well from my PhD fieldwork in Edo State in #Nigeria in the early 2000s, and, and one that is good for "thinking through" (slightly paraphrasing Maurice Bloch) human-nature relations
#EnvironmentalAnthropology 1/x
#thicktrunktuesday #iroko #mvule #miliciaexcelsa #nigeria #environmentalanthropology