Forests4Water Brazil: Community Climate Action

Hello there fellow environmentalist friends!

We already introduced you to Deivid before, one of our staff members here at Iracambi, who is now doing a small trip around Europe, in order to learn english and visit some of the friends that he made during the years he had been collaborating with us!

And he had the opportunity to participate in one exchange week program in a NGOs funded n Greece, the Terra Sylvestris, an organization dedicated to protecting the environment and sustainable development! And did you know that this organization has something to do with Iracambi? 

His founder came to Brazil before and participated in this one particular exchange where he learned more about what we call "the third sector", the sector in which NGOs are present and his desire to also build a organization that ensured and endured the future of the green lands of Greece, were a poweful combination to make his dreams come true (and that's how Terra Sylvestris was created).

Deivid is also moving to other countries. Stay tuned to our social networks to see more about it!

PS: We would like to thanks for the warm welcome and having the chance to be among people who understand and fight for the same cause we fight! We can change the world together!

To our incredible and enthusiastic environmentalist  friends,

As we approach the cold weather around the mountain where  we live,  we are focusing  on activities that can be done close to home. One of them refers to selecting the mother trees from which we will collect the seeds to be planted in our forest nursery. 

What is a mother tree? 

The mother tree is the tree from which we sill collect the seeds.  It’s usually a little bit better when compared with other trees from the same species, because it is healthy and strong, 

But, do you actually know the importance of having a healthy mother tree? 

If the trees are not healthy or well nourished, they will produce poor quality seeds and they in turn will pass on their genetic inheritance to the next generation. So it’s important for us to select healthy trees, and  register them on our Geographical  Information System, so that we can be sure of choosing seeds that will grow into healthy seedlings, and healthy trees, and will produce healthy seeds to pass onto the next generation. 

And next week we’ll have a special visitor who is very experienced in seed collection and he will help us locate the best possible mother trees so that we can continue to reforest with high quality trees. Stay tuned!