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Ten small mahogany trees can not be an important carbon sink now, but in two centuries, should be great

reached the forest of tall old trees mahogany, growing beside the house that was once a sugar plantation. We walked for hours in the hills in the north-central part of Barbados. Fresh air is welcome after the morning on the beaches of the west coast of Holetown. We sat on the smooth trunk of the trees and looked up at the bridge: you could hardly see the sky, foliage was so thick, we are sheltering from the sun

We purchased 10 mahogany small local NGO, the trees proposed future center in the future of the Foundation, which operated for 15 years. (Trust also works with disadvantaged youth, teaching them to become gardeners.) His plan is designed to re-green the island and our soon to be planted with small trees along the highways occupied ABC.

Many trees were felled in the last decades to accommodate roads, hotels and apartments. Our small trees will be a carbon sink, the tiny size, selected mahogany, neem, royal palm, tamarind, mango, apple, gold and frangipani.

this forest of mahogany was the first part of the island that had been unleashed wild. The island has many attractions, but many people have been more developed. Everyone seems to drive. Walk or a few people.

The tourism industry has forgotten the importance of trees, plants and wild places are to attract people in the Caribbean for the holidays. But plants can be silently in place. The stamps have images of plants in the Caribbean, as

Lignim vitae
, small purple flower is the symbol of Jamaica, to encourage people to worry about the flora.