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 the forest and ultimately also protects the forest itself against pests and makes it resistant to climate change.

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; invasive neophytes from other continents are not welcome in our nurseries.

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.

Preserving Wildlife

Preserve 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.

Our Green Lung

Our Green Lung

The green lungs of our planet are essential for the balance of our sensitive climate. This green lung doesn’t just include the Amazon, this green belt stretches around the entire planet – and our new rainforests are right in the middle of it.

To ensur sustainabilty, planting only takes place where there was already rainforest, leaving enough land for the communties to expand housing and farmland.

With the People

With the People

We are shaping a future with the local people, we are partners in the fight against climate change. With our ‘Tree Planting Trainings’, we empower people in rural Sierra Leone to actively combat the consequences of climate change themselves. Without the involvement of local people, any reforestation project is doomed to failure from the outset. 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.

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.

Meet the Team

The leadership team of the greenlimba Foundation Sierra Leone consists of Coordination Manager Saidu Sesay (left) and Anthony J. Turay, Director of Operations. In addition, workers are engaged in every community we plant in and rangers for the communities where we protect rainforest.

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 / Europe.

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