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The Ebony Project is a partnership where business, communities, and researchers work together to protect a valuable timber species, reforest degraded land, and improve rural livelihoods. It was launched in 2016 in partnership with The Congo Basin Institute (CBI). The project conducts research to better understand the ecology of African ebony (Diospyros crassiflora Hiern), enhances ebony stocks through community driven planting, and provides native fruit trees to participating communities. From its inception, the project has been designed as a pilot for larger-scale rainforest restoration efforts for the Congo Basin.

On November 14, 2017 Taylor Guitars signed a Public-Private-Partnership agreement with the Cameroonian Ministry of Environment at the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany to understand the feasibility of expanding the Ebony Project.

The project was created with the goal of planting ebony trees and to conduct basic scientific research into the ecology of West African ebony.  As project supported scientific papers are completed they will be posted here.