Forests4Water Brazil: Community Climate Action

Dear wonderful donors across the world,  

We hope you are doing well, and that you share our joy in the fact that it's raining nicely and the planting team is working hard to get this season´s trees into the ground!

We've been planting as fast as we can, as well as checking on the trees we planted a few months back. As you can see, if we don´t keep on top of things, there´s a real danger that our baby trees will get suffocated by the healthy growth of grass on all sides. 

This week's good news is that we are hosting a professional photographer on site who is out in the field capturing images of life at Iracambi. We've also recently welcomed a new communications director - Juliana - and she is busily transforming our data and pictures into stories. And we just came off one of our bimonthly zoom meetings with Iracambi International mentors from across the world, where we discussed the importance of good data collection, good reporting and good stories. So everything is coming together on the reporting front, in parallel to the hard work of the planting team. 

Oh and did we tell you that we are partnering with a company in the US that is building a climate data model and plans to use our data and experiences as they refine their model? 

Exciting times down in the rainforest, and thank you for making this all possible. As one of our mentors today said "We need to think big. Aim high and we'll get there." 

Stay tuned for the next adventure, and please look after yourselves!

with love and thanks from Luiz and the foresters (as well as all the members of the Iracambi team)