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The Adopt an Amazon Tree workshop turned students into active forest caretakers and taught them the link between trees, climate and life in the Amazon.Within the framework of Earth Day, the Peruvian Amazon Research Institute (IIAP), an entity attached to the Ministry of the Environment, held the Adopt an Amazonian Tree workshop on April 22 with 17 fifth-year high school students from the Juan Velasco Alvarado Educational Institution, in the district of Nieva, province of Condorcanqui, department of Amazonas. Each student adopted a seedling, assigned it a name, and made a commitment to care for it over time.
The activity, organized by the Forest Directorate of the IIAP Amazonas headquarters, had a practical approach: the students learned in the field, not in the classroom. In that sense, they identified species, worked the soil and applied basic planting techniques. The institution was chosen for its location in the heart of the Amazon and for the direct contact that its students have with the forest in their daily lives.
During the day, students explored topics such as climate change, carbon capture, soil restoration, Amazonian biodiversity and the loss of forest cover, all linked to the problem closest to their reality: local deforestation. The objective was for each student to understand, from their own experience, why conserving the forest matters.
The species planted were the marupa (Simarouba amara) and the paonin (Vochysia vismiifolia), two native trees with a key role in the recovery of degraded soils, the protection of biodiversity and the balance of Amazonian ecosystems. Both species grow in areas like Condorcanqui and are part of the ecological restoration efforts that the IIAP promotes in the region.
By taking on the monitoring of their own trees, the students went from observers to environmental care actors. The workshop sought to ensure that this commitment does not end with the day, but rather that it be extended and consolidated as a conservation habit in a generation that grows up in one of the richest and most threatened ecosystems on the planet.
