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Reimagining our relationship with the ocean begins by remembering we were never separate from it

08-06-26

I didn’t grow up near the ocean. But the moment I was properly in it, not standing at the edge, not wading, but actually in it, something shifted. Not dramatically. More like a recognition. Like remembering something I hadn’t known I’d forgotten. That’s the thing about the ocean. It doesn’t feel like an introduction. It feels like a reunion. And I’ve been trying to understand why ever since.

For most children, the ocean first arrives as a place attached to memory. A family holiday. Wet slippers in a hotel corridor. Sand stubbornly stuck to the backseat of the car. A horizon that feels endless in a way children notice instinctively. They arrive with buckets and leave with sand in their shoes and salt on their skin, carrying the ocean back with them without knowing it. Without realising that, in a sense, they never left it.

Because the ocean is not somewhere we visit. It is something we are already woven into, something that has been part of us long before any of us first stood at the edge of the sea. And one of the quietest, most important things we can do, for children, for the communities they will grow into, for the future of life on this planet, is help them remember that.

Our 2025 summary

03-02-26

We are really grateful and proud of what we achieved this year :

More than 12,745 trees planted all over Belgium with 6 tree plantings organised, which supports the reforestation of 275,000 trees in Burundi.
Our commitment to education and youth empowerment led us to conduct 333 workshops with 6,923 children across Belgium, we have nearly doubled since last year!
We received more than 2000€ of donations for helping the chimps and supporting our work in Chimp Eden sanctuary and Dindefelo Reserve in Africa. To our actual Chimp Guardians who have supported the centra on a recurrent basis, we express our deepest gratitude for being part of this mission year after year.

Paula's pollinator project

01-06-25

We’re excited to announce that Paula, our intern studying biology, has been selected by R&S Global to represent Belgium at the Malaysia retreat in September for her proposal to launch a fantastic project to create pollinator hotspots in Brussels this last month! 🐝

Our 2024 summary

04-03-25

We are really grateful and proud of what we achieved this year :

More than 50,635 trees planted all over Belgium thanks to the support of Luminus, Department Environment Flanders and private donations. Since 2005, we have planted or helped to plant more than 170,000 trees in Belgium in 38 Forest in One Day tree planting events.
Our commitment to education and youth empowerment led us to conduct 219 workshops with 3,805 children across Belgium. We created 5 new board games on diverse environmental thematics to children of primary and secondary schools.
We received more than 1000€ of donations for helping the chimps and supporting our work in Chimp Eden sanctuary and Dindefelo Reserve in Africa. To our actual Chimp Guardians who have supported the centra on a recurrent basis, we express our deepest gratitude for being part of this mission year after year.

Luminus Forest in One Day 2024

08-10-24

On Sunday 24 November, Luminus and Jane Goodall Institute Belgium will plant 3000 trees in Ans, Wallonia.

Nature restoration law sealed in the European Parliament

28-02-24

In the plenary this week, the European Parliament adopted with 329 in favour and 275 against the agreement negotiated last year on the nature restoration law.

First Forest Cleanup was a big success!

22-09-23

On September 7, we organized our first successful Forest Cleanup session with the Roots & Shoots team in three Brussels parks: Terkameren forest, Josaphat park and Osseghem park.

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