Reforestation & Agroforestry

Indigenous reforestation is a highly developed technology practiced over millennia. It utilises traditional agroforestry practices: selective planting to increase biodiversity, enhancing water systems and the make-up of soils, as well as giving support for species (clearing other plants around it) which guarantee a continuous, harmonious relationship between all living species and their respective environments. Biology has yet to learn a great deal from the comprehensive knowledge indigenous cultures hold of the ecosystems where they have lived and thrived. The fact is that indigenous knowledge comprehends biodiversity systems in great depth, knowing which animals or insects will further aid the reconstitution of forests, as well as which plants will interact to guarantee their preservation and which seeds must be preserved for the continuity of such sustainable systems. We know today there was never a natural wilderness in the American continents. Indigenous peoples have positively affected their ecosystems and eschewed destructive social practices harmful to the environment by using a rotational system which lessened such impacts. Indigenous cultures have thus been able to “plant water" and "seed fertile soil" (black earth) and have left us a legacy which we have shunned for too long until now. Our intention is to acquire more land for reforestation and count on indigenous stewardship of these lands to basically replant the earth.