To relieve poverty in Madagascar

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Why “Adopt a tree” ?

Madagascar was once called the green island. Unfortunately, because of the practices of its population which must first use its primary resources, because of its poverty to meet its needs, Madagascar is today called the red island.

Today, 93% of Malagasy people still use charcoal every day for cooking, which does not let nature breathe, especially the trees. If we look at the map of the big island today we can see that the desert is advancing rapidly.

Reforestation is a symbol in a country like Madagascar. It's the promise to start afresh, to reconnect with an extraordinary environment, and to focus on the long term.

This is why the Environment department exists today, to teach children the importance of protection because it is the home that humanity shares.

SILVA is a project born from this initiative to teach its children and young beneficiaries to experience and learn the importance of mother nature.

Description: Acacia is a genus of trees and shrubs belonging to the Fabaceae family (subfamily Mimosoidae)

Scientific name: Acacia

Utilities : shade, furniture, food for bees

Description: Sweet Gum Tree is a fast growing deciduous tree with a mature height of 20m x 6m. Its branches are horizontally spread and its leaves of about ten cm are green

Scientific name: Liquidambar Styraciflua

Utilities : Sculpture, furniture, firewood...

Description: Madagascar Copal is a large tree with straight cylindrical trunk reaching 35 to 40 meters high and up to 2.50 meters in circumference at 1 meter above the ground.  

Scientific name: Trachylobium verrucosum

Utilities : Sculpture, furniture

Description: The name rosewood includes different species of wood of the genus Dalbergia (family fabaceae), growing especiallyin the tropics. It is a very heavy wood, it has a weight of 850kg for a volume of 1m3.  

Scientific name: Aniba rosaeodora

Utilities : Sculpture, furniture

Description: Ash is a tree of the genus Fracinus, belongs to the family Oleaceae. It is a hardwood, used to make a solid floor but a little too uniform in color for today's taste

Scientific name: Fraxinus

Utilities : Hardwood for furniture, insecticides

Description: Bonara, bonara gasy, black wood is an ornamental plant and melliferous by its magnificent inflorescence.

Therapeutic effects: antiasthmatic, anti- inflammatory, anti-infertility, anti-diarrheal, antiseptic, antitubercular, anti-dysenteric.

Scientific name: Samanea saman

Utilities : The leaves are a food for livestock, human medicine

The following trees are part of the first layer of the edible forest that we are creating on the Ambohidahy Ambohimanga site.

They are large trees that protect the soil from the sun's rays. They are also known as the :

canopy.

The following trees are part of the second layer of the

edible forest

to be planted  on a new site : Ambohidahy Ambohimanga.

Small trees, shrubs are part of this strate.

Description: Madagascar Olive tree is a shrub or small tree from 3 to 15m high with evergreen leaves. The leaves are opposite, measuring 16cm long and 10cm wide.

Scientific name: Noronhia emarginata

Utilities : Essential oil, furniture

Description: The avocado tree is a species of fruit tree of the Lauraceae family, native to Mexico and Central America. This tree is particularly fertile in Madagascar.

Scientific name: Persea americana

Utilities : Essential oil, furniture

Description: Rotra or Jamblon is a tropical tree of the myrtaceae family.The ham fruits grow on the tree in clusters, each cluster can contain up to 40 fruits.

Scientific name: Syzygium cumin

Utilities : Fruits, shadows, diabetes medication, diarrhea, firewood...

Description: Mango tree is an evergreen tree that can reach 30 to 50m in height with a canopy of 20 meters in diameter and live more than 100 years.

Scientific name: Mangifera indica.

Utilities : Essential oil, furniture

Description: The Ampalibe or jackfruit is a tree of broad, rounded spread form, measuring up to 20m high.

Scientific name: Artocarpus heterophyllus

Utilities : Fruits

Description: Melia tree is a tree with a straight trunk and a rounded crown. It is generally 10 to 12 meters high at 6 years old in favorable humid regions. It has an extensive but shallow root system. It is used as an insecticide because of its azadirachtin content.

Scientific name: Melia azedarach

Utilities : Shade, Insecticide, Firewood

Description: The jacaranda is a common tropical tree in the Mediterranean, with a beautiful purple flowering from October to November and woody fruits that open like an oyster.

Scientific name: Jacaranda

Utilities : Fruits