By The Iracambi Forestry Team | The team that gets things done
Good morning, dear donors,
And we hope you are all doing well?
We have a ton of news for you in this letter. First of all, the rains have come. Thunder, lightning strikes, muddy roads, deafening choruses of frogs and bugs AND ….
Time to get planting.
Our new forestry coordinator Luiz has his first day on the job today. Talk about hitting the ground running. Luckily he has the rest of the team to help him get oriented, and, lucky for us, he is already familiar with the area. In fact, he owns a plot of land adjacent to the forest corridor that we have been constructing for some years, and he is keen to reforest some of his land. And of course he comes with years of experience in forest restoration, so there'll be plenty of learnings all round.
Another stroke of luck was the fact that we managed last week to get a tractor to make an access trail into the Graminha Mountain Reserve which is the plot of land that Iracambi acquired this year for reforestation. Parts of it are so steep as to be almost inaccessible for even the stoutest four-wheel drive vehicle. Snagging a tractor may not sound like a big deal to you, but tractors are few and far between in this neck of the woods, and, once the rains have set in, it becomes increasingly difficult for them to work on the steep slopes. So we are extremely happy on that front also!
Great news, too, on the large-scale Mantiqueira Forest Restoration Program of which we now officially a part. We’ll tell you more in our next report when we have hammered out the details. But one of the most promising aspects of the program is that the carbon certification will be carried out by the program as a whole, which is going to save us a LOT of time and energy and money, and leave us free to get those trees into the ground.
Another piece of good news is that increasing numbers of businesses are becoming interested in reducing their carbon footprint and many of them are looking into supporting nature-based solutions. Like planting trees.
That’s good news for the planet. And it’s good news – and a lot of work – for us! Thank you so much, dear donors for your support. We’re on the case!
With love and renewed thanks from the Iracambi Forestry Team
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