Rebuilding the Rain Forests

 This girl is Chepe's older sister, named Loida. She was only five when the picture was taken but now she is nine.

Loida is sitting next to a tree her family planted to help rebuild the rain forest. They planted about ten thousand trees on their farm to make the trees grow back in their old pasture.

One of the exciting things that Loida's family did was to try to rebuild a rain forest, not just plant some trees. They used different kinds of trees to make a diverse forest, not just a farm which has only one kind of tree. This helps the animals have more places to live and different trees to live on.

Rebuilding a rainforest is called "restoration". Reforestation is a word often used as well, but sometimes people use that to talk about making tree farms, which aren't very good for the plants, animals, and soil of a rain forest.