Forests4Water Brazil: Community Climate Action

Dear donors, 

We hope you are doing well, and can share our joy at the return of our foreign students after nearly twenty months! 

As you may remember, our program of students and volunteers welcomes people from across the world to get involved at the intersection between biodiversity conservation and sustainability.

And that basically adds up to two main themes - forest restoration and education for sustainability. 

The return of our foreign students coincided with the middle of the rainy season - a great time for working in the nursery and going into the field to roll up their sleeves and plant some trees. 

Over these past weeks, we were able to plant on several local farms, always wth the objective of restoring forest cover and protecting springs and streams. Some sites are planted, some are monitored and maintained, and in some cases we replant  in the case of losses. 

We`re working hard to complete our target of planting 20,000 trees this rainy season, and the rain is really helping us. In fact we`ve had several days when it`s been altogether too wet to plant - the roads turn to mud, the rivers rise, and we have to work in the nursery or in the office instead of planting! But we are super flexible, and heavy rain days give us the opportunity to upload our data and plan out our forestry activities for 2022. 

So thank you, thank you for your support. Together we`re restoring the forest - and that benefits everyone!

with much love, and we`ll talk soon,

Luiz and the Iracambi Foresters  

Happy New Year to all our wonderful donors and friends across the world! 

And may 2022 bring us health, happiness and many new adventures!

And as we sit here in the rainy rainforest, and plan for 2022, we hope you will forgive us if we start with a few reflections and updates on where we have come together, and the amazing things that your support has enabled us to do in 2021.

We´ve expanded our forestry team, which now consists of Luiz, Alfredo, Deivid and Fran as well as eight other members of the local community who lend a hand when required - which is nearly all the time! 

We're completing our 2021 goal of planting 20,000 beautiful rainforest trees.

We're expanded the capacity in our forest nursery and are already propagating seedlings for the 2022 planting season - with a goal of planting 35,000 trees. 

And the backroom boys and girls have been hard at work maintaining our website, improving data collection for our Geographical Information System, working in communications and fundraising, cataloging our medicinal plants, running education courses, and coordinating our wonderful volunteers who come from far and near to help us fulfill our mission of Saving Forests and Changing Lives. 

Thank you, dear donors, from the bottom of our hearts. None of this would have happened without you.  

And we can't wait to see what we can do together in 2022!  

Have a wonderful New Year, and please look after yourselves, 

with rainforest love from

the Iracambi team