While the rainy season began a month ago in the South of Senegal, allowing to start planting operations, Madiké, operations coordinator on the field for the Senegal Trees and Life project, confirms that this initiative is a great success with the villagers: “In each village, we met the chief, the worthies and the women’s groups with whom we talk a lot. We also made list of our seedlings needs that exceeds by far our predictions. Some close villages came even at the nursery to take their seedlings.” 16 villages are involved in this first step. Three of them, Foulamory demba, Foulamory yero and Saré Amadi have already planted 16,420 seedlings in quickset hedges. Fruit trees of the Trees and Life nursery at Teyel should be transferable in the ground from August. So, Madiké will get the possibility to continue the planting campaign with the operation “One house, One fruit tree”. “Rainfalls are low this year, we shall have to plant quickly so that trees will benefit from maximum rainfalls”, says Madiké. By planting in all the villages around the forest clump of Teyel, our agents on the field contribute to the villagers’ awareness and simultaneously lay the foundations of community-based forest management that will be gradually implemented during the Trees and Life project.