• Your trees make the earth happy-green

    Mama Earth has so far planted well over 3.5 million mangroves and trees in Mindanao, Philippines. With maximum transparency. With us, it’s easy to make planet earth greener, be it through mangroves (0.33 euros), with endemic trees that grow into forests (10 euros including an elegant gift card or 7.50 euros as a download) or with jungle giants such as toog trees.

Planting mangroves

Mangroves are the “rainforests of the oceans” and protect coasts and reefs, create breeding grounds for fish and birds, but also bind CO2 like no other plant.

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Planting endemic and native trees

Forester and author Peter Wohlleben puts it in a nutshell: “Forests thrive best without human intervention.” But where there is no forest left, planting trees is the first requirement.

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News about Mama Earth

We regularly publish smaller reports about our work. Here you can read the latest news:

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This three-part website reflects our activities. In addition to these activities, we also have various side events that you can read about in our free monthly work report. Simply enter your e-mail address for the work report here

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Mangrove reforestation

Mangroves are the “rainforests of the oceans” and protect coasts and reefs, create breeding grounds for fish and birds, but also bind CO2 like no other plant. That is why we are reforesting on a massive scale. If you would like to know more about mangroves, you are welcome to read and download our free eBooklet.

Free mangrove eBooklet

Our focus is currently in Mati, Mindanao, Philippines, where we are planting the Malizia Mangrove Park, in which 2,000,000 mangroves will grow by the end of 2024. We would then have clearly exceeded the 4 million mark. But we have no limit, because we have to keep planting – and we still have plenty of planting areas.

Malizia Mangrove Park

If you prefer a different planting area for your mangroves, we have two more to choose from. Write us an e-mail: info@mama-earth.de You will receive a donation receipt for your donation. A certificate is also available on request. For people who want to do a good deed every day, we offer a mangrove subscription. You pay 120 euros a year and we plant 365 mangroves in return, even in leap years. It couldn’t be easier to help nature and have a good feeling when you get up in the morning. This mangrove subscription has the huge advantage for us that we can better control the occupancy of our tree nurseries, where the seedlings spend the first months of their lives.

Mangrove subscription

Planting endemic and native trees

Forester and author Peter Wohlleben puts it in a nutshell: “Forests thrive best without human intervention.” But where there is not a patch of forest left, planting trees is the first requirement. We plant trees where timber companies used to ravage, but also in ecologically important places. The process: Mama Earth poaches endemic trees and photographs each tree as it is planted. All of the trees planted are protected, and many of them grow together to form new forest areas if the areas are large enough. But the other trees also have a positive impact on people and nature.

The myTree planting campaign aims to plant 5 million endemic trees in Mindanao, Philippines. It is important to us that we guarantee maximum transparency. How can this be achieved? Every tree we plant is photographed with its coordinates. This means that no two trees can ever have the same coordinates! This guarantees that we have planted the tree that is printed on your photo in the map you have purchased. When you enter the coordinates in the photo into Google Earth, the globe rotates and you “fly” directly to the planting site. Our foresters and their helpers look after the trees for three years, after which their survival should be assured.

✓ Every tree helps the climate. We are currently planting in the mountains of Marilog, Davao, ✓ the planted native trees must not be cut down, ✓ every mixed forest is long-term nature and environmental protection, ✓ the reforestation is supported by the state environmental authority (DENR), ✓ every tree is a livelihood for people and animals, ✓ a tree is an ideal gift (weddings, birthdays, customers, family).

myTree myTree as download

Our Toog trees are a very special project. Our small pocket eco-park with around three hectares and a Romanesque lake, which was “surrounded” by the mayor’s office with a cement road, but is slowly being reclaimed by nature. There are currently 109 impressive giant trees. 80 are still on offer. A tree costs 100 euros and will grow there for over 200 years. Give a tree your name, for example as a family tree or two trees if you want to continue growing with your partner. You will receive a certificate for each tree with the number of your tree. The following videos will make your decision easier.

Giant trees (Wikipedia)
Toog planting (YouTube)
Biggest Toog tree (YouTube)

Anti-plastic campaigns

Through our planting campaigns, we are confronted with plastic waste on land and in the sea. The plastic waste must be collected as quickly as possible, otherwise it will be ground up into microplastics and end up in the food chain. The inevitable question remains: “What to do with the collected plastic?” Fishing it out of the sea and then dumping it on land cannot be a solution.
So after collecting the plastic, we have it separated and deliver the recyclable plastic to Davao, where we work with the recycling company Envirotech in Davao to have sturdy school chairs made from it – with a 10-year durability guarantee. A school chair costs 38 euros and is an ideal solution for the tropical climate, where school chairs made of cheap wood do not have a long lifespan.

School chair order

We have a long-standing friendship with the Amihan sa Dahican group in Mati, as we buy the plastic waste that is washed up from the sea on this stretch of beach. Keeping this stretch of beach clean is vital for the survival of the sea turtles, as they lay their eggs on Dahican Beach many nights. It is therefore important that the mother animals do not have to struggle over the garbage to dig their nests, but also that the way back, when the animals are already completely exhausted, is barrier-free. And it is particularly important that the hatchlings reach the sea quickly and do not get caught up in the plastic waste. To support this, we have fabric bags sewn from used multi-bags. A carrier bag costs just 4 euros.

Zero Hero: A lot can be made out of waste, but avoiding plastic waste must be a priority. That’s why it’s important to take a critical look at yourself every day and do without single-use packaging where it can be avoided. No one can do it perfectly, but if many people do it halfway, the first step has already been taken. Our new campaign starts with the school in Mati where the pupils buy and throw away masses of disposable drinking bottles because their parents have no money for tumplers, i.e. stainless steel drinking bottles that keep the water cool and fresh. Plastic drinking bottles may not be brought onto the school grounds. This is where we come in. The school will be equipped with water dispensers where pupils can fill up with drinking water free of charge. This will save thousands of plastic bottles a year, which will ease the burden on parents’ budgets and benefit the environment. Please help us to gradually expand the campaign and buy a tumbler (6 euros), which we will give to a pupil as a gift.

Tumbler