Learning to read the forest, together.
A short film, a field guide and simple tools that help community monitors notice change in the forest, check it on the ground and share what they find. Our knitted guide Mama Natura shows the way.
Made in Spanish, for the communities we work with.
Two perspectives. One fuller picture.
A satellite can show that the canopy has changed. Only people on the ground can tell what happened and why. The film follows Mama Natura from the sky down to the forest floor.
Spanish narration with English subtitles.
From a signal to a shared understanding.
Notice the change.
Satellite alerts show where the canopy may be changing. An alert is a question, not yet an answer.
Check and measure.
When it is safe, monitors visit the place, take photos with their location and measure trees in fixed plots.
Share and decide.
Findings are reported in a simple, shared format. The community decides what happens next, with safety and local judgement first.
Everything a workshop needs.
The film opens the conversation. The rest of the kit helps people practise, in the village and in the forest.
A short film
Why monitoring matters and how it works, told in Spanish by Mama Natura.
Workshop slides
A presentation for group sessions, with notes for whoever leads the conversation.
A guide on the phone
Step by step instructions that also work where there is no signal.
Field forms
Clear forms for photos, locations and tree measurements, so every observation counts.
A familiar face for a complex subject.
Mama Natura is a fictional character, knitted from yarn and living in a world of paper and cardboard. She makes satellites, plots and measurements easy to follow.
The knowledge of the forest belongs to the people who live there. She simply opens the conversation.
Into the field with ACADESAN.
Later this year we travel to Colombia to work through this material together with ACADESAN, the community council of the San Juan river in Chocó. This is a first version. What we learn together, from the words we use to the way we measure, shapes the next one.