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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 […]

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

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

Today our managing directors presented the greenlimba reforestation project to the German ambassador in Sierra Leone. Horst Gruner was thrilled and as a thank you they gave several „Ficus Pumila“, a climbing plant with which the German Embassy wants to bring more green into the capital Freetown – and now also into our headquarters in

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

Salfu Conteh is the Environmental Officer in Karene District and he visited today our reforestation plots in Kasimbek and Kakissy „to monitor the good work of greenlimba in the District“. Mr. Conteh is actually only about 1.60 m tall, but the size of the „Gmelina arborea“ planted only two months ago is still impressive, isn’t

We are back in Sierra Leone in person and on our way to Outamba National Park north of Kamakwie. Our goal: to make an inventory of the last remaining rainforest in West Africa in order to be able to create as good a „copy“ as possible for our reforestation areas. To do this, we made

The NDR television has reported today about us! For the TV report about our reforestation project in Sierra Leone / West Africa, the team filmed with us in the Botanical Garden in Kiel, among other places. Those who missed the report in the „Schleswig-Holstein-Magazin“ can see it online here: www.ndr.de/fernsehen/sendungen/schleswig-holstein_magazin/Nortorfer-wollen-Regenwald-in-Sierra-Leone-aufforsten. Worthwhile!

All contracts are signed – by the landowners, the Chiefs, the Forest Department and the District Government! A dream becomes reality: We plant a new rainforest in West Africa. For the local people a good reason to celebrate – and for us too!