Sowing Water, Brasilien

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Our project aims to reverse forest suppression by encouraging rural producers to adopt sustainable land-use practices and restore degraded forests. Focused on eight municipalities within the Cantareira Supply System, the project also engages the community through environmental education, promoting active involvement in conservation efforts.

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Juni 2024

Balls of pink flowers grow on trees in Brazil. The purple ipê (Handroanthus impetiginosus) is a deciduous species that is full of flowers at this time of year, providing a spectacle of color and beauty, in addition to the immense supply of food for pollinators. This tree has medicinal

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23 Juni 2024

The Sowing Water Project's environmental education team works to involve children and youth in climate change mitigation activities, but the broader community does not contribute. In the background, in the image on the right, you can see the smoke from one of the fires that occur

#Students&Volunteers #Conservation #Education

10 Juni 2024

Mai 2024

The May flower is a cactus native to the Atlantic Forest that does not have thorns and has this name because it always blooms at this time of year. It is a plant widely used to decorate houses and gardens, but in nature the May flower grows on tree trunks without harming them, just

#Conservation #EnvironmentalAwareness

27 Mai 2024

Contemplating the landscape in the Atlantic Forest is always enchanting, as the variety of species and flowers provide different spectacles throughout the year. We are already in May, in autumn and the temperatures should already be milder. However, the endless sequence of heat waves

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12 Mai 2024

Sam Lo · vor einem Jahr

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Water Seeders. This is what we call the owners of land where part of the Sowing Water Project trees are planted. They receive trees on their land for ecological restoration in watershed areas and for the composition of multifunctional forests, with species of economic interest such

#FaunaConservation #Agroforestry

04 Mai 2024

April 2024

Sweet potato branches are planted among native tree species and other medium-cycle plants in agroforestry systems. To plant, you need to curl the branches into a circle. Sweet potatoes are a short-cycle agricultural crop, important for increasing carbon concentration in the soil.

#Agroforestry #FoodSecurity

22 Apr. 2024

IPÊ - Institute for Ecological Research · vor einem Jahr

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When you learn how to plant an agroforest yourself it's cool. When you learn how to plant an agroforest with a class of more than 20 people, 3 teachers and the Sowing Water Project team it's much cooler!!! It happened last week at the Institute for Ecological Research. People from

#Agroforestry #EnvironmentalAwareness #Education

09 Apr. 2024

IPÊ - Institute for Ecological Research · vor einem Jahr

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Interactions between land use and soil type drive soil functions, highlighting water recharge potential, in the Cantareira System, Southeast of Brazil

Interactions between land use and soil type drive soil functions, highlighting water recharge potential, in the Cantareira System, Southeast of Bra...

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