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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.

Annual Progress Reports

Each year, the project teams produces an annual report to document its successes and challenges in the previous year and to state its assumptions moving forward. Reports are intended to be an honest assessment of the state of the project at each given moment it time.

The Ebony Project ESRI StoryMap 2023

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The Ebony Project Annual Progress Report 2023

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The Ebony Project Annual Progress Report 2022

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The Ebony Project Annual Progress Report 2021

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The Ebony Project Annual Progress Report 2020

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The Ebony Project Annual Progress Report 2019

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The Ebony Project Annual Progress Report 2018

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The Ebony Project Annual Progress Report 2017

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Public Private Partnerships

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.

Public Private Partnership (Long Version)

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Public Private Partnership (Signed)

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Public Private Partnership Scale Up Feasibility Study

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The Ebony Project: Preserving the Music of the Forest

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Scientific Publications

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.

PICT: A low‐cost, modular, open‐source camera trap system to study plant–insect interactions (2021)

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Life history, uses, trade and management of Diospyros crassiflora Hiern, the ebony tree of the Central African forests: A state of knowledge (2020)

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Micropropagation and Effect of Phloroglucinol on Rooting of Diospyros crassiflora Hiern (2020)

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2018 IUCN Red List Evaluation of Diospyros crassiflora, Ebony

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