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… or how climate protection feeds an entire village. Our sustainable reforestation programs in Sierra Leone / West Africa not only help to combat climate catastrophe, they also help smallholder farmers in one of the poorest countries in the world. Here our District Coordinator Saidu Sesay (standing on the right) hands over a four-digit amount […]

We are starting our second planting season! Here our employee Sorie Dumbuya carries the first young Cotton Trees (Ceiba Pentanera) from the nursery in Kasimbek to the nearby reforestation area. Our climate forest in Sierra Leone continues to grow! You want to do something for global climate protection and help poor small farmers in West

20% of our new rainforest in West Africa is made up of commercial trees, so that smallholder families in Sierra Leone get a double benefit. This is a tamarind tree. The tamarind so versatile that it can be used in the kitchen for all kinds of preparation: Appetizers, soups, fish and meat dishes, vegetarian dishes

Our oxygen production goes into the next round: thousands of new rainforest giants are currently growing up in our West African tree nurseries, waiting to become part of the “green lung” in Sierra Leone. Balance your ecological footprint with the help of our sustainable forest projects and order your tree package easily and quickly at

Our West African employees have already sown (tens of) thousands of seeds in used drinking water bags at the end of February and now the first new trees are sprouting. Every year again a great pleasure! With the onset of the rainy season in Sierra Leone, the seedlings are then released into the field starting

99 meters high above Kasimbek: To document our reforestation programs in Sierra Leone, we also use a small drone. Not much of our pilot year efforts are yet visible from a bird’s eye view, but that will change very quickly. The trees here in West Africa grow on average 50% faster than any forest in

Here we go! The first trees are planted! However, the botanists among you will immediately notice that these are not going to be rainforest giants… That’s right! These are cashew seedlings! We are planting our new rainforest in Sierra Leone / West Africa not against, but with the people. Therefore, in addition to the protection

CO2e = ((cir : π : 2) ² x π x h x FF x BEF x RTSR) x BSW (D) x CF x 3.667 How much CO2 is actually in a tree? And in one hectare of rainforest? There are more than a dozen scientific formulas to work this out, but the results vary

Our first sign is up! This is not about self-congratulation: the people in Kakissy and Kasimbek are proud that our first reforestation areas in Sierra Leone / West Africa are located in their two villages of all places. The (recycled) sign was, of course, hand painted by the local sign maker in Kamakwie and the

The photo is unexciting, the content is: We have agreed with the rectorate of the University of Makeni around Prof. Momoh (center right) on a research cooperation with our reforestation program “greenlimba”! This is also associated with a scientific review of our activities in Sierra Leone. Cooperations with another university in England and one in