Author: PHILIPPE BLONDEAUX

Signature of the agreement between Graine de Vie, the Ministère de l’éducation nationale, and Actions sans frontières today February 20th, 2020 For this first year, we are going to set up nurseries of 500 trees for schoolchildren in about thirty schools and supply 2,000,000 seeds thanks to the bags of 5,000 seeds that we have…

Monday, February 3rd. From our communications manager in Tana, Miss. Onjatiana Ravoninjatovo. The official launch of the reforestation of the 3,000 hectares of the highlands through the technique of “direct seeding” in the Commune of Fihaonana, with the presence of the Chief of General Staff of the Malagasy Army, CEMGAM. Nearly 200 soldiers participated in…

Tree Nursery management training at École Catholique de Bon Pasteur, in partnership with École verte de Diego.  

Reforestation with the army, site of Andranganala on an area of 500 Ha, from our local responsible Onjatiana Ravoniniatovo  

Start of the National reforestation in Diego Sakaramy.From our local correspondent Gerard Poncet.  With the participation of the Grainedevie staff at DIANA  

Direct seeding in Bongolava region. On Monday, our local manager Voara reports that a team from Graine de vie from Tananarivo had gone to the Bongolava Region to carry out direct planting with the deputy and the villagers as well as two people from the army. We were able to plant 10,430 seeds on an…

Campaign in Madagascar to fight fires caused by cigarettes thrown from bush taxis. Stickers will be put on bush taxis and drivers will be made aware of the dangers.

In Togo we have about 25 tree nurseries currently active with 7 new ones coming soon while also creating awareness about forest fires and deforestation trough radio and local media. From Gerard Dogo our local Graine de vie responsable This morning on Radio Planète Plus. Theme: forest fires and deforestation.   This morning on Radio…

RTBF-Info . A Belgian NGO offsets carbon emissions through reforestation in Madagascar and Togo Madagascar, island full of biodiversity – victim of the effects of global warming See l’article  

Article related to tree restoration and reforestation, source : http://science.sciencemag.org Extract Reforestation remains among the most effective strategies for climate change mitigation.We mapped the global potential tree coverage to show that 4.4 billion hectares of canopy cover could exist under the current climate. Excluding existing trees and agricultural and urban areas, we found that there…

A mangrove forest, restored by Graine de vie since 2009. At the moment life has almost recovered, the crustaceans have enjoyed themselves, the fish find their production areas there and the crabs can live easily. The preservation and security of this site will be the subject of an agreement with the local population, Villa Ambodirafia…

The coordination meeting for the Fondation Albert II of Monaco Project , Graine de Vie -Madagascar and MNP Masoala took place at Antalaha, from our correspondent Gerard Poncet

Tree nurseries who have been deployed in Madagascar with funding from Graine de Vie Ecopartners    

This is the short story of the movie soon to be released. From our correspondent, Onjatiana Ravoninjatovo. Iary plays with his kite and ties it to a tree for an outdoor lunch with his grandmother and grandfather, in a contrasting landscape of green surrounded by burnt land. The grandparents tell him how everything had changed…

Graine de vie is preparing to plant 12,000,000 trees starting this December 2019 on the basis of the direct seeding technique. This technique is based on the direct introduction of the seed into the soil, without tillage. We distribute bags to the people who help us harvest 12 million seeds. These seeds will then be…

Land reconnaissance for direct planting, close to Cape Diego at Babaoby towards the tip of Madagascar – Gerard Poncet

4th Octobre 2019. From our correspondent Fiarovam Perenena, 🌳The military region Nr7 prepares to plant young trees on 2000 acres. Inside the nursery of the NGO Graine de Vie at Antsiranana, the green berets are preparing the plants who are about to be planted.

Signing of the partnership agreement between Graine de Vie and the Malagasy armed forces for the reforestation of 10,000 hectares this year in Madagascar!

Golf competition Graine de vie at the Royal Waterloo Golf Club collecting funds for planting trees.  8th edition already. Thanks to the members, 50000 trees have been planted in Madagascar.