Great story and what a difference he made! Thanks for sharing!

My sister went down to the guy in the Andes to help him with his yearly dose of planting . He gets around twenty people up there every year to plant all the saplings he has been raising. He has been doing this since the 80's.

I love hearing those stories. With something like 17 million acres of trees cut down every year, much of it rain forest, it's good to hear that people in many parts of the world are planting them, but not near enough to make up the difference.

One guy in brazil is replacing trees on the top of this coastal mountains tat were cut down by vaqueros for charcoal. The trees acted wicks to get the clouds to rain. after they were gone th rain was much less. He has been replacing them for years and has been educating the vaqueros and they are not being cut down in this the areas that he is planting. This is an effort thaT is being done along the whole mountain range and it is starting to have an effect and rain is starting to normalize in the areas that have older plantings. My sister also visited this area in her South American trip to see her friends.

great read! thanks for sharing,