News from Ecuador
Half a year after our last update, we would like to tell you about the progress of our reforestation project in Ecuador. In our last update we promised you that we would soon start planting the first trees. On November 15 - almost two months later - the field work started. On the first day, Zia Parker, an experienced permaculture designer from Vilcabamba, gave a workshop on Rainwater Harvesting about planting swales. In the following five weeks until the Christmas break, our field team, consisting of our project coordinator Cristian, his foreman Jonathan Pinta and the two farm workers Ricardo and Jonathan Calva, have already planted a total of about 1,500 trees and agaves. At Christmas, they received a small gift from us as a thank you for their strong commitment to reforestation.
In the first week of January, they were joined by Susana and Gina, who have become permanent members of the team and are working very diligently. Until the time of the video shooting we have already planted a total of almost 1'000 trees and more than 2'000 agaves. Today, the day we post this update, we are already well over 1,200 trees and around 2,500 agaves for our living firebreaks. We are very confident that our hard working field workers will be able to nearly double these numbers by the end of the rainy season. Then, at the start of the dry season, they will install irrigation for a portion of the reforestation area and cut additional firebreaks around the reforestation areas (removing the dry grass).
Using different approaches this year, we want to learn as much as possible about the cost-benefit ratio of different measures, such as irrigation and swales, and optimize the efficiency of our reforestation step by step.
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THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
We would like to thank you again from the bottom of our hearts for your support for our project and especially for your trust in us and our reforestation! Without you, the successes we can report today would still be a long way off. We are therefore very grateful to you that we have made this project possible together and hope that we will continue to work on this project together!
LET'S PLANT THIS RAINFOREST!
