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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

“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…

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,…

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…

We work in the tropics. That sounds exotic, like palm trees and the beach. The reality is usually different: An extensive workshop with our managers was on the agenda at the…

Jens Kraus-Massé is Germany’s highest representative in Sierra Leone. For the second time, the ambassador made the long journey from Freetown to the north of the Karene district to see our…

This is a “Black Tombla”, the small tree. Although it grows much more slowly than some other tropical trees, its wood density means that it ultimately stores just as much CO2…

This kapok tree had sown itself directly in front of our headquarters in Kamakwie, which was a very bad location considering its later diameter of several meters … Without further ado,…

These wonderful rainforest giants called Kuthiebie (Antiaris Toxicaria) grow in our protected forest in Kadingbilin. In Europe, one would assume that the tree was at least 100 years old – in…

Whether you are a corporate client or a private donor, everyone has their (good) reasons for supporting our sustainable forest projects in Sierra Leone/West Africa. Thank you for your support!

How many different tree species grow in a healthy Central European mixed forest? 8-9 And how many different tree species grow in our protected reforestations in West Africa? 24 currently –…

Another high-ranking visitor to our reforestation area in Kakissy: the Paramount Chief of the Sella Limba Chiefdom wanted to see our work for himself and put on his sporty outfit especially…

Under international law, climate change projects require the “free, prior and informed consent” of indigenous peoples. Logical, you would think. But this is sometimes not so easy to implement in practice:…

Our entire reforestation program explained in one picture: this year’s young trees on the right, last year’s on the left, and a small rainforest enclave in the background that our smallest…

We are back in Sierra Leone! Marion and Anthony are barely recognizable, so large have the trees in Kakissy grown in just one year. Our new rainforest is growing magnificently! And…

Success stories are always a snapshot in time. But we enjoy this moment. The “Schleswig-Holsteinische Zeitungsverlag” reports today on our reforestation program in West Africa on almost a whole page. Now…

Why should private donors be in a worse position than companies? There is no reason for that, we thought, and in the past weeks we founded the “greenlimba Förderverein Deutschland”, which…

Article in the Schleswig-Holsteinische Zeitungsverlag (sh:z) from today:

Article in the Schleswig-Holsteinische Zeitungsverlag (sh:z) from today:

Read all about our reforestation program in Sierra Leone and our life in West Africa in the current issue of @derdigitalefruehschoppen Have fun listening: … or this way to the podcast:…

… 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…

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…

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…

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”…

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…