Home Farm Rainforest Rewilding & Restoration Project

35 participants

• Increased ecosystem services & functions by ~50% (protection, production, generation, decomposition, filtration, stabilization, support, regulation, provision)
• ~ Increased biodiversity by ~80% fungi, plant & insect species; ~30% bird species & ~10% mammal species
• Increased soil generation by ~80% (first year increase in potential soil generation from trapping leaves, decaying vegetation & other material, as well as creating conditions for water penetration, microbes, fungi & plant roots to start activating the dirt & creating soil)
• Created over 20 hectares of rewilded habitats
• Showcased & explained the project to the entire Home Farm team (10 people) & over 100+ people, both within the community of the Baru & visitors to the farm from all over the world
• Tracked & documented changes via photos, video, wildlife camera traps & detailed GIS maps
• Most people were very respondant, felt more connected to nature, saw plants, birds, insects & mammals they had never seen before & felt called to support rewilding & restoration projects on their own lands or in the own parts of Costa Rica or the world
• The project helped reduce erosion from the property
• The project helped reduce some of the sedimentation of the Barucito River & downstream Baru River, as well as the coastal zone in Dominical
• Created awareness of what rewilding is, the benefits of it to ecosystem & human health, biodiversity & habitat