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Bamboo regeneration use-case 🎋🌎 2 Year Transformation With Bamboo: 2018 vs 2020 🌱 Inspirational showcase of what can be achieved in a record time of just 24 month. In Neotropical Climate, with depleted red clay soil. On a, topographic speaking, Tropical Mountain Rainforest. With #Guadua angustifolia – #bamboo. Guadua is the endemic bamboo species of South America specifically: Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. The area we transformed was historically a stark depleted cacao-ccn51 monoculture with very low cacao production. We first terra transformed into big terraces, for better future access. And then started transplanting with Guadua seedlings, and tropical #fruit trees, as well as selective not-chopping down wild endemic pioneer plants. Now obviously within the 2 years, the fruit trees are almost not visible yet, compared to the bamboo, but they will grow within the bamboo forest. 🌎 Keep in mind that even thought the article is about Guadua (bamboo) transformation, its NOT a Guadua bamboo monoculture! We have used Guadua and a few Giant bamboo (Dendrocalamus asper) near the access road and fence border with the neighbor. Also various other natural bio-engineering-elements. All terraces have been reinforced with Vetiver grass as #bioengineering element to control damage by extreme tropical rainfall such as erosion landslides. Additionally we transplanted perennial peanut (Arachis pintoi) to control overall loss of top #soil. The #vetiver grass also helps to enhance the soil activity, attracting #microorganism with the deep root system and its strong fresh scent. Did you know that bamboo has relatively low water requirements and that its root system is an excellent #watershed protector? Also you can think of bamboo as of a natural water tank and filter. Water cycle regulation. Every bamboo trunk will push the water to the tallest part of the trunk and back down within every 24 hours. This helps to regulate water flow in tropical climate. #thinkbamboo #geoEngineering #terracing #steephill #Bamboo #Guadua #GuaduaBamboo #bambooReforestation #reforestation #BambooDesign #tropicalsteephill #terraces #bioEngeneering #regeneration