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Welcome to the Zanzibar Holdings Ltd website

“Our business is about trees, our success is about people”

Zanzibar is a company of 350 people who plant trees and tend the forests of British Columbia Canada. We have been in business for over 40 years and have planted more than 500 million trees

Fall Planting in the Cariboo-Chilcotin: A response to a warming climate

February 10, 2021 by Wesley Brookes

Forest Ecologist Wesley Brookes installing a HOBO climate station.

The dry Douglas-fir forests of the Cariboo-Chilcotin in British Columbia are difficult to reforest following severe disturbances.  The recent warming trends due to climate change have exacerbated this by exposing spring planted seedlings to more extreme summer temperatures and drought. 

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Direct Seeding with Drones for Forest Fire Restoration

February 8, 2021 by Nicole Harrison

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Cariboo wildfire

In the fall of 2020, Zanzibar Holdings partnered with OneTreePlanted and DroneSeed for a pilot project to test out using small biodegradable seed pucks for reforestation. These pucks were placed in areas impacted by the 2017 wildfires in the Chilcotin forest region. See OTPs featured blog post for further details on this exciting new method of reforestation, and project details.

Collaboration with Stswecem’c Xgat’tem First Nation on Wildfire Risk Reduction

January 26, 2021 by Kelly Paton

For the past three years, Zanzibar Holdings Ltd. and the community of Stswecem’c Xgat’tem First Nation (St-wet-lem hight-lem) (SXFN) have partnered on a large fuel break project near Big Bar Lake. The goal of the project is to to reduce wildfire risk to the rural community of Big Bar Lake with funding support from the Forest Enhancement Society of BC (FESBC).

Zanzibar Holdings thanks FESBC for its support of this project and is proud to have worked with the good people at Stswecem’c Xgat’tem (Dog Creek and Canoe Creek) on this and other projects.

For more information on what we have been doing in this project and how it helps mitigate wildfire risk, click here to go to a Jan 26th article on the FESBC website.

Zanzibar COVID-19 Updates

April 7, 2020 by Kelly Paton

This FAQ document will be updated regularly. Please stay tuned; we will do our absolute best to keep you informed of the evolving protocols and plans.

If you have a question that is not answered here, email kelly@zanzibar.ca.

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Zanzibar Holdings Ltd
#204 1801 Welch St.
North Vancouver B.C. Canada
V7P 1B7

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