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Plant 3,700 native trees around the Sycamore riverbank in Bogotá

Volunteers are restoring the Sycamore riverbank in Bogotá; $650 covers saplings, tools and waste removal.

🇨🇴 Bogotá D.C., Colombia390 views
Marisol H. Torres
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Bogotá
The Sycamore riverbank has been used as an informal dump for years. This August, 120 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 56 bags in a single morning. Now we want to restore it for good. We have a plan agreed with the local forestry office, including native species selected by a local botanist. The area floods more each year, and fish have returned for the first time in a decade after our first cleanup. Restoring it will protect homes and bring back shade. All the labor is volunteered. We just need materials. We'll post planting day photos and a count of every sapling planted. Where the $650 goes: • Native saplings and stakes: $440 • Waste removal and skip hire: $70 • Tools and protective gear: $140 Thanks for being kind about this.

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  • Hang in there, Marisol. It takes guts to ask. Well done. Put this on a community board in Yonkers this morning.

    • how is Marisol doing now?

      • Gave what I could, wish it was more. Love from Rome.

        • good luck. Your post was clear and honest. Don't lose heart. A few weeks ago I was in a hole too and it changed faster than I expected. Love from Da Nang

          • Thinking of you. Great idea, hope you get there. All the best

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