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The cost of
planting has been and still remains only fifty cents per tree. This
covers propagation, tending tree seedlings for 12-15 months, and
delivering trees to the sites where community members will plant
them. This cost also includes the continuous monitoring and participant
support for which MRF and LCHPP are well known. Jose Luis has worked
hard to establish trust and acceptance of sustainable reforestation
as a way of life for the ejidos. Each year more trees are planted
and more ejidatarios are involved. By the year 2002, we were planting
over 300,000 per season, with over one thousand families committed
to reforesting their lands. More individuals and communities participate
as they realize that the trees are their future.
THE SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES OF THE FUND ARE:
To restore forest ecosystem integrity in the State of Michoacan
and the State of Mexico and thus preserve the monarch butterfly
overwintering habitat in Mexico
To give individuals worldwide the opportunity to help protect
the Monarch Butterfly Overwintering Area in Mexico
To enable the native communities to reach economic self-sufficiency
through the development of a sustainable forest products industry
To establish reforestation as a workable strategy for long-term
protection of threatened forest ecosystems, for the local human
communities, and for the wildlife that lives there
To help conserve ecosystems by creating alternative sites
for extracting forest products needed for domestic use and as a
source of family income
The Funds primary activities are building public awareness
and reforestation.
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