Nicodemus Wilderness Project -- Global Registry of Apprentice Ecologists

Have you ever thought about how a simple seed with the right care can evolve into an enormous creature that can provide food, a house, and pure air? I am Sebastian Ortega a 17 years old student from the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra Bolivia. Since I was a kid I have always got fascinated by nature specifically: plants. These splendid creatures have incredible shapes, hues, and smells. My family was a big part of this fascination and growing in a city with a big amount of flora and fauna just enhanced even more that bond with nature, but the more I grew the more changes I saw in the flora and fauna in my hometown. Our city decreased in a number of trees, our weather was more irregular, rivers disappeared, and the biggest trigger exploded. The Chiquitania place where I used to visit every single summer was covered by fire, it was hell. Almost nothing was recovered millions of plants and animals were burned and that green-lived place was then their grave. At that moment I knew that it was a moment for change. Since then by 2019, I have been volunteering in different organizations in order to make a change in our city and planet. This year was the year to change things and I did so. My person with a group of friends and my brother decided to start this project which we called â€œHuertos Familiares semilla esperanzaâ€. This was conducted in the countryside of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, the idea consisted in creating little orchards for families from not high resources. First of all, we found communities that were willing to cooperate, and we started the phase of construction. We prepared the soil, sowed the seeds, etc. After finishing the second phase, our team taught the people from the community how to irrigate, the cares of the plants, etc. Then, we visited the communities often to see their progress and continue the process of learning. Finally, after the orchards have done their function we gave to the people new seeds to start the progress again. The goal of this was simple, help the most unfortunates and help the environment at the same time. It is widely known that producing our own food is much more reliable than shopping at big companies. So having finished the project we achieve the reduction of the cost of food for those communities, we helped the environment, and we taught other people how to do it. Teaching these communities is essential because we are the blame for what they are facing, the countryside of our city has been quite unstable due to the big growing urban frontier. Hence, helping them and at the same time helping our planet was an amazing idea. In conclusion, this project was one of the best ones I have got involved with, helping others but at the same time helping our aim of restoring the flora and fauna made me realize that helping the environment also helps us as a civilization. Just like tiny seeds that have provided us food for generations. And youâ€¦ Have you sowed that seed?