Trees and Education Protect Rainforest in Brazil
Protect brazil rainforest
Summary
Project educates farmers to restore Rainforest in Brazil with sustainable forest farming. They learn to preserve and recover the environment, water and wildlife, resulting in enhanced rural earnings.
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Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Farms in the Rainforest were opened with non-sustainable production methods that led to severe soil, water and landscape degradation, causing rural poverty and migration to cities. This project promotes knowledge and training on environmental conservation and sustainable development forest farming, for rural economic rehabilitation, trying to keep these environment-minded farmers living on their families land and practicing Agro-Ecological techniques in their farms and communities.
Activities
The project teaches and trains farmers in Agroforestry technology and vegetable garden production, showing ways to obtain improved sustenance and more lasting and profitable agricultural results, always respecting the environment.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $21,405
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $38,595
Total Funding Goal: $60,000
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
Two targets: 1-More than 6000 farmers and smallholders in local and neighboring counties to whom we demonstrate new agroforestry techniques. 2- Local students and communities members that we invite to our Wildlife Sanctuary to know the Rainforest.
Project Message
As climate, hunger and poverty situation is getting worse every year, I am sure that what I am proposing today as an innovative idea and experience will soon be of compulsory usage in many countries.
- Roberto Lamego, Director of this project
Who is Running This Project
Contact
Roberto Lamego
Technical director
Rua 17 de Outubro, 74
Centro
Valença, Rio de Janeiro 27600-000
Brazil
55212424524864
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Project Sponsor
Organization
SALVEASERRA
Rua 17 de Outubro, Centro
Valença,
Rio de Janeiro
27600-000
Brazil
55212424524864
SALVEASERRA's Current Projects on GlobalGiving
![]() Provide Vegetable Gardens for Families in Brazil |
SALVEASERRA's Funded Projects on GlobalGiving
![]() Protect Rainforest With Sustainable Practices |
Where this Project is Located
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This project is located in
Brazil
and can also be found under
Climate Change (GG Green).
For more information about Brazil, read the Human Development Report on Brazil or the Wikipedia entry for Brazil.
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on April 13, 2009.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on November 26, 2007
Latest Update from the Field
End of planting season.
By Roberto Lamego - Project Director, April 13, 2009 10:39 AM
As we are about to finish our year plantation operations we want to share with you what we are do with our forests and the donated seedlings. Since 1995, SALVEASERRA recovers forests with agroforestry plantations methods in an effort to attract and convince economically land owners and cattle ranchers to protect the environment with the use of these ecological and economical possibilities that brings profits to them and avoids deforestation. As farmers have very little information about these agricultural techniques and procedures, our pilot demonstration areas are used in courses and field training programs to show students and land owners that it is possible to preserve the forest, protect biodiversity and obtain income doing things like we do. We add value to the forest with our planting methods.
All the work starts at the tree nursery and our nursery produces low cost seedlings and costs very little to maintain since it was built under the forest shade and with local materials. We have produced countless seedlings since we started planting and when we buy seedlings they are brought here until definitive planting. From the nursery the seedlings are taken to a place near the plantation areas and then separated by species before planting. Each tree species is planted in its best appropriate ecosystem condition. In our plantations, trees, palm trees and fruit trees are planted in squares that have 3 or 4 meters sides and a great quantity of new plants can be introduced in a small area. This year we opened three new areas for different agroforestry system planting plots. In two of them timber trees were mainly planted and the other one was directed to fruit trees. Remember that when you plant agroforestry systems you never stop planting and there is always room to plant something else in the same area. All plants must have an economical and ecological interest to be there and because these areas are ecologically balanced areas there are no pest attacks and ants are a rarely problem.
But maybe this is the easy part of the act of planting trees as people always forget that if we want these baby trees to become mature trees they have to be inspected and cared for at least 2 times a year and during 4 years. If you don't do this, there is an enormous chance that these very fragile seedlings will die, be it by drought, by fire, eaten by ants, crushed by branches or tree trunks, swallowed by lust vegetation or stepped up by cows. What I want to say is and it is absolutely necessary to have this always in mind, is that for at least 4 years, it is not possible to abandon these young trees after they are planted otherwise many plants will not survive and this international effort in resources and manpower to aid the environment will be useless and meaningless. I am very much concerned with this plant abandon situation because I have witnessed this happen many times here in Brazil and I would not like to see this happen with GlobalGiving Green so dearly donated trees.
Donor must consider that in many situations one dollar one tree is not enough to make this sapling become a big, mature and reproductive tree.
I am writing this update in the middle of GlobalGiving's fundraising campaign, “Give a Little Green" and you can be sure that if you want to contribute, every extra dollar our project can obtain from this campaign will become a nice tree, timber, palm tree or fruit tree.
Who knows if some time donors will be able to visit the planting areas and plant a few trees with their hands?
Thank you all very much and all the best,
Roberto Lamego
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