This landscape of deforested mountain tops is all over our region. If you look into the valley, you see trees and crops. But when you look up, you see rocks and shrubs.
In July, we planted 500-1000 trees on ten different mountains, in seven different localities: Sucrerie, Bon, Kay Pyeline, Coraye, La Parese, La Hatte, and Casa Mayor.
Many of the trees were planted over water springs. But mostly, our trees were planted on mountaintops. Additionally, one group of trees was planted on school grounds as an educational forest to teach students about the importance and lasting impact of reforestation.
We hope to track all of these trees monthly for a full year, using our Treetracker App. Using the app allows us to track the growth of the trees and compensate farmers for each tree they keep alive. Its a pay-to-grow model made possible by the technology of Tree Tracker, and we no longer have to guess if their trees survive.
