Author name: Lars Bessel

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!

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

Right here something great is being created: the “greenlimba forest”! The first 23.5 hectares of new West African rainforest were established today by our local staff… We are starting our reforestation just south of Kamakwie in the villages of Kasimbek and Kakissy. We will sign the contracts during our next stay in Sierra Leone.

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!

Today, international political celebrities are arriving at the World Climate Summit in Glasgow. “It is one minute to midnight and we must act now,” urges British Prime Minister Johnson. And that is exactly what we are doing here in the West African bush! Marion von Oppeln reports at the “Karene District Development Coordination Committee Meeting”

The “greenlimba GmbH” is founded! Another step on the way to a new rainforest in West Africa with direct effect on us and our climate is done!