Autorenname: Lars Bessel

„Once white people came to our village …“, this is how the story of emos from Kadingbilin in the north of Sierra Leone / West Africa begins. That was last July. We talked to him about the wonderful forest that still surrounded his village and why it was worth protecting. Emos did not let go […]

While Germany’s forests are taking a winter break, our first nearly 5,000 new trees in Sierra Leone / West Africa are growing vigorously towards the sky. The first have already almost reached the 2-meter mark for Nicholas! Our District Supervisor Anthony J. Turay has been busy documenting and is justifiably proud of our successful pilot

High-ranking visitor today on one of our West African reforestation plots: His Excellency the German Ambassador from the capital Freetown, Jens Kraus-Massé, lets Supervisor Anthony J. Turay explain the work of the past year. The reaction was unmistakable: „great work“! Later, the highest German representative in Sierra Leone wrote on „Twitter“: „Thank you for the

Back in Sierra Leone – and the results on the ground are impressive! Contrary to what was expected according to international studies, significantly more trees have survived so far. However, we will only know the exact percentage after the rainy season in September / October.What is definitely also worth seeing is this burned strip at

We are planting our new rainforest with the people of Sierra Leone, not against them. Therefore, in addition to the protective forest, there is also a commercial forest: after only three months, the first peanuts are now being harvested and dried. greenlimba, a social climate protection project in West Africa, sustainable and fair!

First meeting at the Sierra Leone National Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry field office in Kamakwie, the district capital. The project area of about 30,000 hectares has been determined. Afterwards visit to their own „Nursery“, the „tree nursery“. Thus, after the District Council, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry has also given the green light

You can see from the faces of our employees in Sierra Leone / West Africa that the new rainwear and especially the rain boots still seem very foreign to them. After all, until now they went to the forest and meadow work on bathing slippers. But there are also plenty of scorpions and poisonous snakes

They carry their own and also our future on their heads: After hundreds of cashew and tamarind seedlings have already been successfully planted in the „Agroforest“ in Kasimbek and Kakissy in the past weeks, the first trees of our new rainforest are now following! Of course, we do not plant monocultures and only varieties native

Our rainforest project in the north of Sierra Leone can start! Now the signatures or thumbprints under the last document are also dry: Paramount Chief, Section Chiefs and Chiefs, representing the landowners, have unanimously recorded their approval! We are very happy about the great enthusiasm for our idea. We’re off in the spring! The future

Our employees in West Africa are beside themselves with joy: Of the more than 7,000 seeds they sowed in the „forest kindergarten“ two months ago, 85% to 98% have sprouted in the meantime, depending on the tree variety! We did not expect this in our wildest dreams … In the meantime, reseeding has been done