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Climate protection without education is like swimming without water. We are therefore working on a small school primer for greenlimba to explain the importance of trees to children in West Africa. A warm summer Sunday in the Wilstermarsch is just the right inspiration for Marion to develop our main character. I wonder what it will […]

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

“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

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

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!

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

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