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Project - Trees Water People/COEAS |
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Trees Water People/COEAS
Treeswaterpeople.org
Read their report how this grant helped achieve their goal.
 Trees Water People will help COEAS with the installation of a nursery irrigation system to help the people of Suyapa, Honduras,
manage a newly formed national reserve in Honduras' vulnerable rainforest ecosystem. On the edge of the growing capital city of Tegucigalpa, is the 12,600 acre Refugio de Vida Silvestre Suyapa (RVSS), named after Luis Hernán Baca Valladares 'Mero' the former founder of the the Ecological Committee of the Suyapa Village, (COEAS).
The forests of the recently declared Wildlife Refuge are home to dozens of species of plants and animals at risk of
endangerment and habitat loss due to poaching, deforestation, drought, and wildfires. The Suyapa community works to protect natural resources, habitats, and livelihoods, and has worked with COEAS directly for the last five years, funding reforestation, wildfire mitigation, protection of local water sources, and ecosystem restoration.
 This project will provide for the installation of a nursery irrigation system that
is crucial to ramping up production of locally adapted seedlings for post-wildfire reforestation, ecosystem
preservation, and agroforestry. This irrigation system, alongside the construction of a shed at the nursery, is a
long-needed project that will support the healthy production of trees and other crucial plant species in a local, climate
adapted environment, giving plants an increased chance of survival despite extreme climate conditions and threats of
urbanization and human-caused degradation in a vital region of Central American rainforest.
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