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junho 2024

500,000 carbon-hungry 'tree soldiers' undergoing training and preparation for imminent deployment in the biggest battle ever faced on Planet Earth..... Or to put it another way.... Yesterday in the community tree nursery in Boré ;-)

12 jun 2024

Collaboration = Resilience (Fuhar Mwenga)

If you are reading this, you probably agree with us that planting a tree is the best single action that a human can take to forestall the climate a...

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maio 2024

Janet Mranja, one of our senior project officers, demonstrating pit planting techniques to members of the Amkeni Women's Group. With support from the project these women have started small vegetable growing businesses and clubbing together have used the funds raised to collectively

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22 mai 2024

Some of our female nursery workforce share a traditional Giriama song whilst taking a break from potting up tropical forest seedlings

10 mai 2024

Original indigenous Coastal Forest as viewed from the Boré Community Forest Centre. Much of the focus of our work is on helping the local community find sustainable income alternatives to charcoal burning that protect these vulnerable trees and their absorbed carbon

07 mai 2024
Sam Lo
Sam Lo · há 10 meses

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abril 2024

Moving soil for the coming batch of seedlings in the nursery. Its hard work but our team of workers dont mess about. With funding from Tree-Nation we are now expanding production capacity to 1.5 million seedlings a year. That means more carbon drawdown and more decent employment

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28 abr 2024

Visitors to La Pedregoza are always fascinated with the Merecure fruits which up close have the appearance of speckled bird eggs.

Licania pyrifolia or Merecure tree is native to the Orinoco river basin and considered potentially vulnerable. The fruits seen here are nearly ready

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26 abr 2024
David Ruffini
David Ruffini · há 10 meses

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The heavy rain that has been falling in the Boré region for the last few months has meant lots of extra weeding - good news for these workers who are earning extra cash removing these fast growing grassed from the community planting site

21 abr 2024

Everyone like to plant trees in Boré! Here, Alex Katana, our project manager shows some of the local football players how to plant seedlings. Football and Treeplanting - Yes Please!

13 abr 2024

The sun is scorching hot at La Pedregoza this year and the temperatures have been pushing these days beyond 40°C to reach even 42°C (107°F) in the shade!!!

Our workers in Pedregoza are very dedicated to seedling survival especially during heat waves and a wellness and survival check

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07 abr 2024
março 2024

When you stand before the Saladillo blanco tree (Vochysia lehmannii) with its brilliant yellow flowers rising above the canopy of all the other trees in La Pedregoza, one can sense why this tree truly belongs to the rare and magnificent species of this region.
While Saladillo is

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31 mar 2024

Neem trees grow surprisingly fast. These ones are only around 9 years old and already are close to producing a closed canopy. Due to its antiseptic properties, Neem timber is resistant to attack from termites and so is highly prized as a building material in this part of Kenya. Each

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19 mar 2024
Jürgen Rein
Jürgen Rein · há um ano

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With the expansion of planted trees in Pedregoza, it is only natural that wild animals like the Sainos are travelling through our newly created forests. Called the Saino in Spanish this wild pig like animal is known as a collared peccary and has it’s own family classification of

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04 mar 2024

Trees and Humans Reciprocating Climate Resilience in the Tropics

Thanks to big support from Tree-Nation this year we have been able to implement a serious upgrade of our main community nursery infrastructure - na...

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Earlier this week in the Borè nursery. Really excited to see the new batch of seedlings peeping up out of the soil. These beauties feed on sunlight like you feed on toast in the morning and every single one will spend years capturing photons and using their embodied stellar energy

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01 mar 2024