Our last “Tree Planting Training” for 2024. As always, great interest and a desire for change. We are happy to help! Will you help us with your donation? http://www.greenlimba.com/spenden Thank you!

Of course, all our employees are aware of the dramatic situation in Sierra Leone due to climate change. But when the boss can back this up with scientific facts from Germany,…

On our motorcycle trip around our residence in Kamakwie, we also stopped off in Kadingbilin, where we are using donations to protect an old rainforest enclave. And lo and behold: the…

Our first “Tree Planting Training” was a complete success! Instead of the expected 20, far more than 30 participants came to the remote village of Yana in the Sanda Loko District…

No climate protection without education. We are convinced of this. That is why we are currently producing our own children’s book for environmental education in Sierra Leone / West Africa: “Fatu…

The Federal Foreign Office organizes “Climate Talks” around the world. For Sierra Leone, we had the honorable task of presenting greenlimba’s approach to climate diplomacy to a high-ranking audience at the…

Today is an R-day for a change. It is usually RRR days in August. In our internal documentation, we differentiate between one and three “R” depending on the intensity of the…

The last tree for this year has been planted, a total of almost 7,500 future rainforest giants! Our employee Sayo is carrying a bowl of flamboyant seedlings to the reforestation area…

69% of participants in a new international study are willing to invest 1% of their monthly household income in the fight against climate change! Are you one of them? Then we…

Of course, we don’t miss out on getting our hands dirty ourselves. It is simply a pleasure to plant a Cotton Tree, an Afzelia Africana or a Camels Foot in the…

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…