By Margaret Dunham | Vice-President, Board of Directors
Bio-Benin's care for the environment is starting to pay off. One day last summer, 25 volunteers from Switzerland, France, Canada and Benin came together to plant some 500 tree seedlings of Kapok trees along the waterway that runs through our organic farm.
Concerned about local people cutting trees for cooking, we have also created a video to educate the local population about how destroying trees destroys topsoil and leads to desertification of the land that formerly grew crops that sustain life.
By continuing with this ongoing effort and protecting the trees we plant from harm, we plan to involve the local forestry service and the local government to do more to expand this effort to protect the environment. In this way we will help preserve the local watershed for farming and for life in this increasingly dry part of the world.
By Julie Wang, Guillaume Lonhoudjo | Chair,Bio-Benin Advisory Board, Executive Director
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