Well, my trip to Ecuador started out with a lot of excitement, recent volcano eruptions and floods in 13 of the country’s 24 provinces. This is not likely to let up until the end of April. Ecuador has been hit by the heaviest rains in 25 years on account of the La Nina phenomenon.

The floods have affected between 250,000 to 300,000 people so far, of whom 100,000 are in need of immediate assistance. More than 13,000 persons are housed in temporary housing.

The planting of 150,000 trees by CCES will assist Ecuador in many ways. First it will reduce GHG, CO2 levels but also act as a collection for rain and entrap the water rather than running off of open soil.

The insect and animal life in the area is phenomenal it would be a well engaged trip for nature lovers, yet alone professionals of the environment. Would you like guinea pig for dinner, ironically enough, it was a very good and tasty stew.

The trip from Ecuador’s capitol Quito was adventurous in itself; it took over three hours to arrive in our planted forest to tag the trees and log each trees longitude and latitude spot. After we had tagged each tree over several days It took over 6-hours to return to Quito to fly out due to the massive flooding and mud slides.

I will be putting all this documentation together to present Ford Field with a certificate and pictures and logs of the trees planted for them. They offset the GHG, CO2 emissions from the last Thanksgiving football game.

Suggestions, bring garlic oil to keep bugs away (this is a friendly safe bug deterrent) Bring high boots at lease one’s that cover up to your knees, bring lots of mosquito netting for night. The high boots are in case a coral snake is on the ground or behind you while tagging trees, yes, there was one behind me? Wear long sleeves if you are in the jungle for there are little beetles that fall from the tree. And, did I say, they bite all over the arms, if not.

Other than that it was adventurous, fun and challenging. See you soon on the next trip!!!!

Mike Dolkowski, President
Carbon Credit Environmental Services
www.getcarboncreditco2.com