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Project Hometree The movie Avatar was the inspiration for the name of this re-forestation project. The people at Giant Studios, who worked on this movie for over 4 years, wanted to give a donation to a “cool tree planting organization”, in the words of Candice Alger, CEO of Giant Studios. Paul Hynek, Director of Business Affairs, found the La Reserva Forest Foundation’s “Connecting Forest Islands in Costa Rica” project, posted on Global Giving and made a generous donation that completed the funding for the David Alvarez biological corridor on November 20, 2009. Paul also came to our website and was impressed by our idealistic pragmatism.
The donation was received at Global Giving on Friday, November 20th and we began the work of fencing, hauling trees, digging the holes and planting on the 25th of November. We finished planting the David Alvarez property on Friday, the 27th of November with over 3000 native trees, to connect two primary, tropical rain forests. At the close of this planting the LRFF has planted over 10,000 trees in 2009 alone. Donate now to Project Hometree The LRFF’s headquarters are at Lake Arenal, Costa Rica, within our regenerated forest reserve. We are volunteers who believe in restoring our world’s indigenous tropical forests. We also work at preserving the world’s native forests via carbon offset projects.
The LRFF’s focus is on connecting “forest islands” via native, tree, corridors. We accomplish this by paying farmers a yearly stipend per hectare to reforest strategic parts of their pasturelands. This work is actualized via donations from private citizens. These corridors are vital for the wildlife in the tropics because without them they are trapped in the remnant forests unable to perform their mini-migrations. In all of our reforestation projects we plant a minimum of 1000 native tree seedlings per hectare (400 per acre) and over 70 species, to provide, as best we can, the biodiversity that would be naturally present.
Our shared philosophy is that if we give something back to our Earth, something that we humans have exploited over the millennia, we will be rewarded with a healthy environment in which all future generations thrive. For more info on LRFF please see the other pages on our site, especially Roberta’s Blog and Dan’s Forest Photos. Check us out and … LET’S GET PLANTING!!
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In research done at HeartMath in California, they found that the heart,which is seven layers of muscle as liquid crystals, gives off a field thatgoes 5 to 8 feet outside the body. They also measured the field when people walked through the woods, they found that the field that was created was about 50 feet." Rain forests cover about 2% of the planet’s surface and yet are home to half of the Earth’s plant and animal species. More than 2,000 tropical forest plants have been identifies by scientists as having anti-cancer properties. Fifty-seven percent of the world’s forests, including most tropical forests, are located in developing countries. While plants of known medicinal value abound in the rain forest, as little as one percent of the region’s vegetation has been tested for such properties. Every second of every day, an area of rain forest the size of a football field is burned or bulldozed. Rain forests act as the world’s thermostat by regulating temperatures and weather patterns. A forest tree in the northern hemisphere has a leaf surface area of from ¼ acre to 4 acres. A tropical rain forest tree has a leaf surface area of up to 40 acres. The leaf surface is used by the tree to create plant matter and oxygen. We share a symbiotic relationship with trees. We exhale carbon dioxide that they absorb and sequester carbon to live. They exhale oxygen, our prime source of life. |
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