Bamboo
Bamboo really is an amazing grass. Not a day goes by without news of new areas of application. We are constantly receiving inquiries as to whether we would like to create more areas for bamboo planting. Yes, we want to, but we don’t have any areas. So we have to keep our Asian calm and hope that this situation will change quickly.
Mangroves
The number in our counter for the mangrove plantations is changing rapidly. As I write this newsletter, the current counter stands at over 1.4 million – just for the Malizia Mangrove Park. With all the other mangrove reforestations, we can write over three million mangroves (3,000,000 in figures) in our logbook. Not a bad number, but at the same time an incentive to plant more. To stick with big numbers: Five million would be a goal worth striving for. We really are making a difference. For nature, because it needs our support because it has been exploited for decades, but especially for the fishing families who benefit most from the planting, both in the short and long term.
Transportation of seedlings with a bamboo raft. Very effective for loading large quantities.
Growing mangroves in plastic drinking cups, millions of which end up in the trash after a single use.
A wonderful mahogany tree from the Mama Earth Farmer program. Almost too good to harvest, but this tree was also planted as a timber tree. It has now reached its trunk circumference of 32 centimeters. To avoid damaging other trees, the thick branches are sawn off first. To do this, a worker has to climb up (center).
To find out where the best prices can be achieved, we also have to offer boards that are two inches (approx. 5 centimeters) thick. This is considerably more work, but is probably more lucrative.
