By Lotte Roache | Project Leader
Dear Friend,
We are so grateful for your support and would like to share how your gifts have been used to immediately grow trees, while also looking to future tree growing efforts through the Machete Project platform.
It is the end of the rainy season and his year has been particularly rainy, likely due in part to the La Ninna climate phenomon in the Pacific. The rain can make for difficult tree-planting conditions, but it can also help young tree seedlings to establish quickly. So, we are pleased to share that already this year we have planted 1300 trees in Nicaragua. These have been a total of five hundred mahogany tree seedlings have been donated by a local landowner and shared with farmers to use as a source of timber. Another 500 native trees were grown in the Escamequita nursery managed by the Rostran family. Three hundred of these trees have been planted for the purpose of providing food for wildlife at private nature reserves. Two hundred seedlings are still left in the nursery and as soon as there is a pause in the rain, seedlings will be again distributed to schools and private farms to be planted.
The Machete Project platform is still under development and we are preparing to add the finishing touches such as adding the google maps and the educational videos. We have included a link to a video of our executive director sharing more information about the machete platform and how it works during NY Climate Week. We also prepared a marketing survey for the Machete Project which is helping youths in Nayarit, Mexico to identify effective incentives for youth to choose to participate in the platform which will help link them with local farmers. We will launch this in 2025 when we receive a funding grant from Daughters For Earth, a network of philanthropies seeking to support women-led climate solutions.
Thank you for supporting out climate solution. Please consider making another gift this #GivingTuesday.
Sincerely,
Sarah Otterstrom
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By Sarah Otterstrom | Executive Director
By Sarah Otterstrom | Executive Director
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