#Pinta plant for freeThis platform offers projects a micro page for free in which they can present themselves and ask for support from the community which is able to donate trees to the project in the form of monetary donations. The Plant-for-the-Planet platform is incredibly project-friendly! As a non-profit organization and project, we face many hurdles and one of them constantly is the lack of money. Ricardo carrying some cuttings up the Sacred Mountain where they are planted to create a lush tropical mountain rainforest. That’s when I realized Plant-for-the-Planet was a big organization and that I have unconsciously supported them many times by buying “ Die Gute Schokolade” □ He invited me to join the Trillion Tree Campaign with the project that I was setting up at that moment. When I went on a visit to the Crowther Lab (I think) in December 2020, I got to know Felix personally and we’ve talked for a while. I had heard about it in the past as a youth organization caring for the environment mostly in the form of tree planting projects and I had known the name Felix Finkbeiner in that context. Ecological effects will probably follow soon but are not recognizable yet. So far, we have helped to provide an income to six workers and their families and added about $ 10’000 to the local economy. This question is hard to answer as we have just started our reforestation project half a year ago. Susana Delgado holding the seedling she is going to plant right in the next moment! When the seedlings are tall enough to sustain themselves, the trees grown from cuttings will be removed because they are clones and do not represent the adequate genetic diversity of a tropical forest. In short: the cuttings create forest-like conditions that help the seedlings – which are planted in between – to thrive and grow strong. Second, we plant trees from cuttings that are already around 1.5 m tall – they can shade out the aggressive grass on the mountain, cast helpful shade on the seedlings planted below them, break the wind, fix atmospheric nitrogen, create mulch by leaf litter and thus, help restore soil fertility. So, I convinced Walter to reforest that mountain in collaboration!Īs the dry season is tough and the soil is heavily eroded, we came up with a plan to improve the conditions on the mountain for a natural forest to thrive: First, wherever it is possible we use landscape techniques for rainwater harvesting to retain as much rainwater on the mountain and in the soil as possible. I immediately saw the chance to create a large-scale wildlife reserve not distant from the megadiverse zone of Podocarpus National Park. At the same time, the restoration of balanced natural ecosystems is basically the only known way to capture CO 2 from the atmosphere and to permanently store it!ĭuring my one-year journey through Latin America, I got to know Walter, the owner of the mountain we call “Sacred Mountain”, due to the Kogi explaining that this land is sacred. Thus, the best way to fight this dramatic decline in biological diversity is to restore and re-connect high-quality ecosystems to allow species to thrive and genetic diversity to flow among wildlife populations. 1 cause for the vast biodiversity loss that we are currently facing is the destruction, fragmentation and degradation of natural habitats. Jonathan Pinta and Jonathan Calva digging a swale – swales collect rainwater run-off to promote it to infiltrate into the soil.
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