{"id":11891,"date":"2021-01-27T11:51:40","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T17:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guatecana.com\/los-ingenios-azucareros-han-plantado-5-9-millones-de-arboles\/"},"modified":"2025-03-11T16:25:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T22:25:14","slug":"the-guatemalan-sugar-industry-has-planted-5-9-million-trees-to-recover-forests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guatecana.com\/en\/the-guatemalan-sugar-industry-has-planted-5-9-million-trees-to-recover-forests\/","title":{"rendered":"The Guatemalan Sugar Industry has planted 5.9 million trees to recover forests"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/guatecana.com.gt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/os-ingenios-azucareros-han-plantado-5-9-millones-de-arboles-1-min-jpg.avif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9905\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.504225352112676;width:838px;height:auto\" 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href=\"https:\/\/sugarforgood.com\/our-environment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Reforestation Program<\/a>, implemented by the Sugar Mills through\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/icc.org.gt\/en\/icc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the Private Institute for Climate Change Research -ICC-<\/a>, has among its priorities the recovery and conservation of the hydrographic basins of the rivers that flow into the Pacific Ocean, in the face of climate change.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The program, in addition to recovering wetlands, water sources and riverbanks, has a factor of community involvement and support, since all the trees come from over a hundred local nurseries managed by the communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>In 2020\u00a0<strong>the Guatemalan Sugar Industry planted more than 818,000 trees<\/strong>, and in each region, native species are planted for conservation, energy and timber purposes, among them the species,\u00a0<em>Matilisguate, Puntero, Volador<\/em>, Cedar, Mahogany, Palo Blanco, Mother Cacao and\u00a0<em>Plumillo<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/guatecana.com.gt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/os-ingenios-azucareros-han-plantado-5-9-millones-de-arboles-4-min-jpeg.avif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9910\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.guatecana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/os-ingenios-azucareros-han-plantado-5-9-millones-de-arboles-4-min-jpeg.avif 300w, 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