Back in Salone
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…
Great newspaper report
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…
New sponsoring association
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…
Starting shot
Article in the Schleswig-Holsteinische Zeitungsverlag (sh:z) from today:
Together we can do it!
Article in the Schleswig-Holsteinische Zeitungsverlag (sh:z) from today:
Protect climate, create jobs
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:…
Payday in Kasimbek
… 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…
Season start
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…
Double benefit
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…
Next round
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”…
Here we go again!
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…
The first snacks
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!…
Bird’s eye view
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…
Formula cracked
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…
Here it is!
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…
Next level
“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.…
Giant Santa Clauses
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…
With crayons against deforestation
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.…
Collect seeds
The way to the Outamba National Park, just 25 kilometers away, is always a little adventure even for us! It takes a minimum of two hours with a good four-wheel drive…
Scientific cooperation
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…
Fire against fire
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…
The first peanuts
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…
High visit
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…
Stronger Together
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…
Occupational safety is …
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…
Rainforest upside down
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…
Impressive size
Salfu Conteh is the Environmental Officer in Karene District and he visited today our reforestation plots in Kasimbek and Kakissy “to monitor the good work of greenlimba in the District”. Mr.…
Everything sprouts
Our employees in West Africa are beside themselves with joy: Of the more than 7,000 seeds they sowed in the “forest kindergarten” two months ago, 85% to 98% have sprouted in…
Dry thumbprints
Our rainforest project in the north of Sierra Leone can start! Now the signatures or thumbprints under the last document are also dry: Paramount Chief, Section Chiefs and Chiefs, representing the…
Visit home
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…