Leading in Biodiversity
Successful in Reforestation
Responsible in Climate Action
Embracing Biodiversity
Embracing Biodiversity
We plant a healthy mixed forest of more than 30 local tree species. No monocultures. Never. Tree-diversity also means a diversity of other plants and animals. Biodiversity is essential for all life in and around the forest and ultimately also protects the communities and makes them resistant to climate change.
Environental Education
Environmental Education
Meet the Team
The Karene-Team of the greenlimba Foundation Sierra Leone consists of Anthony J. Turay, Director of Operations (left) and Coordination Manager Saidu Sesay (right) as well as our Accountant and Office Manager Moses Karim Dumbuya (not on picture).
The Team of our centra Nursery in Karene is headed by Ibrahim Prince Bangura (right), with the nursery attendants Kabba Dumbuya, Moses Dumbuya, Ansu Dumbuya, Kadiatu Dumbuya and Fatu Bangura (left to right).
Our Moyamba-Team consists of Saidu Idrissa Kanu (Project Manager), Marylin Harding (Community Manager) and Thomas Mattia (Planting Manager).
Aside the team on site, Marion von Oppeln as Chairwoman and Executive Director takes care of the monitoring (in this case showing Gerald Hattler (left), First Counsellor of the Delegation of the European Union to Sierra Leone, the work done in Kasimbek). Responsible for Cooperations, Finance, Information and Auditing is the Director of Administration Lars Bessel, also from Germany.
Protecting of Endangered Tree Species
Protecting of Endangered Tree Species
These seeds are of the “Afzelia africana”, a tree species classified as endangered on the “Red List”. By propagating them in our tree nurseries, we protect many of these endangered species from extinction, including important medicinal trees. Of course, we only plant tree species native to West Africa.
Preserving Wildlife
Preserving Wildlife
With the diversity of the trees, the animal world is also moving back in with all its diversity, from insects and bats to reptiles, birds and mammals. Most children have never seen a monkey or an elephant. The lively and sociable western green monkey (Chlorocebus sabaeus) is one of the first monkeys to return to the new forests.
With the People
With the People
We partner up with the local communities in Sierra Leone in the fight against climate change. In creating „Community Forests“ with the communities, we empower people in rural areas to actively combat the consequences of climate change themselves and to create a sustainable future. There is a great willingness to take the initiative, as everyone is now feeling the effects of climate change through heat, flooding, falling groundwater levels and reduced harvests.
No Future Without Strong Women
No Future Without Strong Women
Strong women are key to sustainable development. It is women like Saio who take care of the family, the children and their future. And they are the ones who take responsibility for our new forests. Of course, committed men also work for greenlimba, but for us the time of the logging patriarchy is over.
Ensuring Important Medical Resources
Ensuring Important Medical Resources
Nearly all trees we plant also have medicinal significance for the indigenous population. The trees therefore also preserve traditional medical knowledge. People in the rest of the world also benefit from this: 25% of medicines in the Global North come from rainforest plants.
The Giants of the Forest
The Giants of the Forest
The Cotton Tree (Ceiba pentandra) is one of the giants of the rainforest, growing more than 40 meters high! With its impressive buttress roots, it is one of the most imposing trees. And it is already impressive as a small tree: its young trunk is covered with really sharp spines, making it a strong and resistant pioneer plant. Its life expectancy is several hundred years.
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