Reserva Natural do Alpinista Waldemar

When we were planning our Americas Project we wanted to neutralize our carbon foot print by planting trees. Soon we realized that it would be very dificult because
1 - Native trees are very expensive.
2 - Planting the tree is only one steep in the process, taking care of it in the first months is very important to make sure it will grow. Claim to neutralize the carbon foot print because you planted one tree and never took care of it is naive or hipocrit.
3 - Find lands destinated for reforestation with autocton forest without commercial purpose is very hard.

We got invited by our friend Waldemar Niclevicz to visit him and help him to plant some Araucarias (my favourite tree) in his natural reserve in south of Brazil. It was a great opportunity to meet him again, get to know more about his project and the honey production.

We can't say that we neutralized any of our carbon foot print, but looking in retrospect, of course we used a lot of fossil fuel to do 40.000+km, but in all other aspects our life on the route is very simple and surely much more sustainable than the one we had in Switzerland.Read more