Restoring forest health from the ground up.
Forests are an essential part of Earth’s carbon cycle.
Forests don’t just grow—they breathe. Acting as the lungs of our planet, they pull excess carbon from the atmosphere, helping to regulate Earth’s climate. But today, forests are struggling to keep up. The team at Funga asks, "What if those lungs could take a deeper breath?”
Soils are an essential part of healthy forest ecosystems.
Healthy soils contain thousands of species of tiny organisms, including fungi, that collectively make up the soil microbiome. Many of these fungi form a partnership with tree roots, helping the trees access growth-promoting resources more effectively and better withstand environmental stress.
When those soils are degraded, the whole forest suffers.
Traditional land management practices have been bad for soil health, reducing the fungal populations that help trees survive and grow. Fewer fungal partners eventually limit the forest’s growth, and smaller trees means less carbon stored in aboveground biomass (wood).
We’re restoring forest soils to create healthier ecosystems, faster growth, and additional carbon captured in wood.
We identify and “put back” the native, growth-promoting fungal communities that forests have been missing. This restoration belowground allows forests to thrive aboveground, capturing more carbon in wood biomass. We are using biodiversity restoration as a climate solution, supercharging one of the most effective carbon-removing mechanisms we know of: Earth’s forests.
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