Author name: Lars Bessel

Of course, we don’t miss out on getting our hands dirty ourselves. It is simply a pleasure to plant a Cotton Tree, an Afzelia Africana or a Camels Foot in the red soil of Sierra Leone, which will be a rainforest giant in 20 years’ time. It also impresses the locals and shows them once […]

Germany’s ambassador to Sierra Leone, Jens Kraus-Massé, hands over the first grant to the chairwoman of the local greenlimba Foundation (GLFSL), Marion von Oppeln, in Freetown! The Foreign Ministry is thus supporting our training courses for the further reforestation of new rainforest in West Africa. Many thanks for the cooperation!

It’s always the best day of the year with lots of goosebumps: the start of the planting season! In 2024, we will plant a new rainforest in Kawula, Sierra Leone, West Africa. The whole village is on its feet, planting hundreds of seedlings in just one day in the scorching heat. We are celebrating –

We were guests at the “Verband norddeutscher Wohnungsunternehmen e.V. (VNW)” in Hamburg – sustainable housing construction meets sustainable reforestation. Many thanks for the intensive exchange of ideas with Association Director Andreas Breitner!

Trees, trees, nothing but trees. A future rainforest is currently growing in our forest nursery in Kawula: a generational forest. A Forest of Justice. An animal forest. A fire forest. A drinking water forest. A north-south forest. A food forest. A migratory bird forest. A forest of life. A climate forest. A forest of the

We are now one of 600+ companies in Schleswig-Holstein that are taking sustainability seriously. The successful kick-off of @connectshub_600dreinull has just taken place in Itzehoe. The aim is to bring together interested companies in the field of climate protection and we are there as a service provider for “the last ton”. In other words: whatever

We completed a very successful workshop on permaculture this week. For three days, people from our reforestation villages in Sierra Leone learned, for example, how to make compost and grow it efficiently and organically. This helps the poor rural population and it helps our rainforests: better harvests = less pressure on the forest. To be

“Your new rainforest will be cut down again in ten years anyway!” We hear that more often. At best, the question follows: “Or how do you intend to prevent this?” Then there’s this answer: through education. Because only those who know the value of a tree are prepared to protect it. For this reason, the

A lot of effort for a small “g” – but that was important to us! We went to the notary this week so that our company can operate as a gGmbH, a non-profit organization. Because what defines our daily activities at greenlimba? Exactly: non-profit status!

The “European Delegation to Sierra Leone” was a guest at greenlimba. The Austrian Gerald Hatler, Head of Cooperation from Freetown, first visited the completed reforestation in Kasimbek and then the new forest tree nursery in Kawula. We liked his summary: “Excellent!”