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AstilleroVerde (Spanish for 'Green Shipyard') is a non-profit association creating a regenerative model within the maritime transport sector that fosters the development of thriving coastal communities and ecosystems. We provide education and employment for members of our local community, run an annual reforestation program and pioneer our circular economy.
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AstilleroVerde was founded in 2018 to consolidate the ecological, social and economic outreach of Sailcargo Inc., a game changing freight company building the world’s largest wooden sailing cargo ship, Ceiba. We are based in Punta Morales, a small coastal town in the Gulf of Nicoya, Costa Rica. The coastal communities where AstilleroVerde operates are among the most economically disadvantaged in Costa Rica, relying primarily on seasonal fishing for income. We aim to provide our community with quality educational and employment opportunities as well as actively regenerating the local environment through tree planting campaigns and the creation of ‘food forests’.
AstilleroVerde’s annual reforestation program, TreesForSeas, is working to restore forest connectivity and function within the Bellbird Biological Corridor, focusing on the most fragile dry tropical forest in the lowland regions. We are currently preparing for TreesForSeas Season 4, our goal for this season is to plant 5,000 trees, the most we will have achieved in a single season. TreesForSeas started as an initiative to replace the timber needed to build Ceiba, with 25 trees to be planted for every 1 tree used in Sailcargo’s ship building operations, to reach this target a total of 12,500 trees need to be planted. So far we have planted 9,000 trees and with the 5,000 planned for this year we should smash our original target in 2023. However, we’re not stopping there, we have a new tree nursery being built which will be able to nurture up to 10,000 saplings each year, with your help from here the sky is the limit!
Camarita is a 2 hectare piece of land kindly donated to AstilleroVerde in 2021 for the purpose of land restoration. Since then we have built an education center on the site and planted the first trees of our agroforestry system. We aim to hold annual agroforestry courses for local people here and further develop the site as a space to help the community thrive.
AstilleroVerde aims to empower local communities by providing access to training, education and employment. Recently we have developed our 2023 - 2025 Social Impact Plan, following from our community needs assessment which aimed to pinpoint the areas local people felt we could utilize our skills and resources to have the most impact. We need your help to action this plan into reality!
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