Tackling the Root of the Problem
Slash and burn farming is devastating the rainforests of Honduras. The only way to stop this is to address the root cause of the problem – hunger. By providing families with food security, Inga...
Slash and burn farming is devastating the rainforests of Honduras. The only way to stop this is to address the root cause of the problem – hunger. By providing families with food security, Inga...
Completed just a few months ago, our tree nursery in Honduras now contains 45,000 seedlings of rainforest tree species, alongside thousands of Inga seedlings, not to mention hundreds of pepper, cacao and vanilla plants....
One of the most essential elements of our long term strategy to combat slash and burn in Honduras is the creation of a Project Center, complete with demonstration plots, a seed orchard, a large...
A little over a year on and the change to our Inga Alley Demo Plots at CURLA University in Honduras is so dramatic that the site is hardly recognisable!
These little seedlings growing at our Honduran Project Centre are Swietenia macrophylla, commonly known as Big-leaf Mahogany – a rainforest giant that can live up to 350 yrs and reach 200 ft in height.
At the Inga Foundation, we feel its really important to get the whole family involved in making a new start and giving up slash and burn. Here are a couple of the next generation...
Rainy season has arrived in Honduras, requiring the construction of a little extra protection for the hundreds of pepper cutting in our nursery.
This image was captured by one of Panthera’s camera traps just minutes from one of the villages in Honduras where we work. Without large tracts of forest, Jaguars can’t survive . For these magnificent...