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Land rescue means repairing Based on the information given by

the soil analysis we can make a plan
and recovering an ecosystem in which we specify how are we going

that has been damaged by to transform the land to make it

different factors: sustainable.

Deforestation Native Plants

Contamination Native plants grow

Garbage & Wastes easily in local

Cattle Raising Organic Fertilizers conditions, they also

preserve the

Organic fertilizers raise biodiversity and help

Deforestation affects the the temperature of recover the soil.

the soil helping the

quality of soil. formation and

development of roots.

Contamination changes the Nutrients

composition of the soil with substances dissolved in
Nutrients are chemical

harmful chemicals putting in soil moisture, required

danger the ecosystems and What have we done? for growth and

also human health. We observed various farms in our development of plants.

The vital nutrients are
region that had the same problem. The

Garbage & Wastes emit farms presented an excessive quantity 13 mineral elements.

of pines and eucalyptus (invasive

substances that affect the soil plants), that were drying excessively

the soil, and a ravine that crosses

causing erosion and the them was dried almost entirely.

appearance of After seeing the soil analysis we

microorganisms that are focused on the removal of invasive

plants, and then reforested with native

responsible of infections and plants. With this we expected a

diseases. positive impact in the ecosystem and

we could observe the recovery of the

Cattle Raising causes a large ravine.

amount of deforestation and This process requires various years to

be performed, but is worth seeing.

methane contamination.

24.000 million tons of fertile

soil are lost annually. We want

to provide a solution and help

restore them. Our project is

based on a soil analysis to

find out what does the land

needs to be sustainable.