Since the inception of the ABCP, tree planting and conservation education – both youth and adult – have each been an integral part of its paradigm of outreach. To this end it has often worked through area schools, enlisting the assistance of concerned teachers and students to implement tree planting programs and remedial conservation efforts. Since schools in Tanzania often have large surrounding grounds, they are ideal for the replanting of a species that is treasured in Tanzania and will be preserved for future generations. 

Through the years this outreach has continued and has been broadened to include schools in new areas. Every spring the ABCP team in Tanzania travels to different locations to deliver tree seedlings grown in the ABCP nursery for replanting on school or community lands. These trees will be protected and cared for by the participating institutions. In this way the tree seedlings have a far better opportunity for survival compared to seedlings that are planted in the wild. Throughout the tropics, valuable hardwood species and rosewoods such as Dalbergia melanoxylon are showing increasing inability to reestablish themselves in the wild. One reason for this is the increased wildfire risk the world is experiencing today. Another is that their seedlings are favored by grazing ungulates. In public woodlands, with nothing to protect them, seedlings of such slow growing species often have only a marginal chance of growing into mature trees.

The paradigm established by the ABCP to insure their seedlings have a good chance of survival is to replant them in locations which are unlikely to be cleared for agriculture or settlement and where some oversight will be provided by local community members. Many of the mpingo trees it has planted have reached an age at which they are resistant to fire and animal predation and therefore have a good chance of future survival. Many are now seed-bearing and may in turn establish new tree seedlings in these relatively protected areas.