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News from RAIN.
14,000 new saplings in the ground…
Over 14,000 saplings of the endangered pernambuco tree have been distributed from our nursery at the Federal University of Espírito Santo, and planted at various locations on the Atlantic coast.
The Joy of Soil
On World Soil Day, go and get dirty, plant a tree, make a mudpie, and make some compost! Healthy soil is full of life, with over a billion bacteria and yards of fungal threads.
Happy National Fungus Day…
Happy National Fungus Day to our fungal friends and friends-to-be!
Fungi are successful because they know how to share. How can this inform the workings of a charity? Read on…
Food security in the Palestinian Occupied Territories
When our partners at Pernambuco University began setting up demonstration centres with black women’s groups in Brazilian slums, they never imagined that their work would find its way to the Palestinian Occupied Territories.
Indigenous reforestation project funded!
We have part-funded our project with the Kaingang nation, to plant their sacred tree in order to regenerated their ancestral lands. The project will start with a road trip to collect a range of seeds, that will be planted in the new nursery.
Twinning UK and Brazilian schools
As summer holidays in a heatwave draw to a close, and parents and teachers start to think about lessons for the new school year, what can we do to prepare young people for the challenges they are facing?
Mycelial Intelligence at London Climate Action week
RAIN was privileged to present our projects and the wonder of mycelial networks to Reset Connect at ExCel for London Climate Action Week.
Indigenous photo exhibition at Brazilian University (videos)
Our partners in the Terena media collective introduce the Indigenous photographic exhibition at the University of Mato Grosso do Sul.
Video equipment for Indigenous media collective arrives in Brazil!
This equipment will serve as tools of the Indigenous struggle, with members of the Terena media collective sending out their voices and images as a form of Indigenous resistance.
Photos of Indigenous resistance
As the Brazilian government was voting on a new law to open up Indigenous territories to mining and other extractive industries, thousands of people representing nearly all of the contacted tribes made camp in Brasília.
Reforesting with Indigenous nations
The most successful regeneration projects are led by Indigenous people, and many groups have special, even spiritual relationships with certain tree species that can rapidly regenerate their ancestral lands. Learn more about RAIN partnerships with Indigenous nations for reforestation.
Mutual aid from a Brazilian slum to a refugee camp
Agroecology in urban slums and refugee camps is a viable way to help displaced people help themselves to survive, and even to start creating a future for themselves and their families. Our partners in the Brazilian favela have passed on what they have learned to a Kenyan refugee camp.
Audio-visual equipment for our Indigenous Terena partners
Equipment for the Indigenous Terena to tell their stories
Biomimicry in the spirit of Buckminster Fuller
The Buckminster Fuller Institute features Trees of Music in their newsletter.
Indigenous and classical Music together - with Miriam Margolyes
British actor Miriam Margolyes has joined an Indigenous leader and two London orchestras to bring out a stirring new video of a traditional Indigenous song.
Indigenous youth making media!
Our friends from the Terena nation have stories to tell - watch the video of them introducing their collective!
Celebrating victory on Indigenous Peoples’ Day
After three generations of struggle, a patch of Kaingang Indigenous territory is returned to the tribe
Impacts of spring restoration
After three years, our partner Wender revisits the springs he restored to see the impacts of our collaboration.
Urban agroecology video - making natural fertilizer
Women from the favela food security project in a favela of Recife learn how to use food waste and some old buckets to make fertiliser.
What is direct seeding? (video)
Toninho is coordinating our four hectare direct seeding pilot project. Next year we plan to replicate it in four other states.
In these videos he describes the biome, the technique and the community where the project is being undertaken.