--- title: "Guinea" url: https://wearenotforsale.org/projects/guinea/ publisher: "Not For Sale" --- Africa · Where we work # Guinea How Not For Sale works alongside communities in Guinea to address root causes and build lasting change. [Support this project](https://wearenotforsale.org/projects/guinea/?campaign=770665) Guinea · Planet ## Community Forest Sowing Not For Sale’s [planet](https://wearenotforsale.org/learn/what-is-ecocide/) work in Guinea supports the Community Forest Sowing project through Tree-Nation. Guinea is the world’s top bauxite exporter, and the mining that makes this possible has caused massive forest clearance, water pollution, and farmland loss. By the numbers 3,500 Trees planted through Community Forest Sowing 7.0 Hectares reforested 1,400 Metric tons of CO₂ sequestered [View on Tree-Nation](https://tree-nation.com/projects/arborise-community-forest-sowing) ![Community forest sowing, Guinea](https://tree-nation.com/thumbs/1080x660/https://treenation-uploads.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/project-617c1dc5374ce.jpg) ### Why This Matters Once land is expropriated and water sources are contaminated by bauxite mining, communities have little option beyond precarious mine labor, often without contracts, making them highly exploitable. Community forest sowing restores what mining has taken and provides an alternative economic base. The connection between mining-driven [ecocide](https://wearenotforsale.org/learn/what-is-ecocide/) and [forced labor](https://wearenotforsale.org/learn/what-is-human-trafficking/) is as direct in Guinea as it is in the [DRC](https://wearenotforsale.org/projects/dr-congo/). [Support this project](https://wearenotforsale.org/donate/) [Support this project](https://wearenotforsale.org/projects/guinea/?campaign=770665) #### At a glance Region Africa Focus Reintegration, Education, Agroforestry Since 2011 [All projects](https://wearenotforsale.org/projects/) #### From the news [Fast Fashion: The Human and Environmental Price of Cheap Clothing Human Trafficking](https://wearenotforsale.org/human-trafficking/fast-fashion-human-environmental-cost/) [What Are the 5 Ps of Human Trafficking? Human Trafficking](https://wearenotforsale.org/human-trafficking/5-ps-human-trafficking/) [Which Organizations Are Fighting Human Trafficking? Human Trafficking](https://wearenotforsale.org/human-trafficking/organizations-fighting-human-trafficking/) [What Is the Difference Between Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking? Human Trafficking](https://wearenotforsale.org/human-trafficking/modern-slavery-vs-human-trafficking/) [All news →](https://wearenotforsale.org/news/) ## More projects in Africa [View all](https://wearenotforsale.org/projects/) Active Africa [Cameroon](https://wearenotforsale.org/projects/cameroon/) View project → Active Africa [DR Congo](https://wearenotforsale.org/projects/dr-congo/) View project → Active Africa [Madagascar](https://wearenotforsale.org/projects/madagascar/) View project → Active Africa [Mozambique](https://wearenotforsale.org/projects/mozambique/) View project → Active Africa [Rwanda](https://wearenotforsale.org/projects/rwanda/) View project → ## Help us build freedom, one community at a time. [Donate](https://wearenotforsale.org/projects/guinea/?campaign=770665) [Explore all projects](https://wearenotforsale.org/projects/)