A Race we must win
We are planting 5,000,000 mangroves for the Malizia Mangrove Park
It’s still missing
2,113,798 Mangroves
(as of May 2, 2025)
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You donate, we plant
Boris Hermann with Team Malizia
Boris Herrmann is the most famous sailor in Germany. In the first half of 2023, he and his team sailed the Ocean Race, the most important team regatta in international sailing. In fall 2024, he will compete for the second time in the Vendèe Globe Race, the toughest single-handed regatta around the world.
Together with the Mama Earth Foundation, he and his team have created the Malizia Mangrove Park in the Philippines, Mati, Davao Oriental. Through donations the goal is to plant one million mangroves in addition to the already existing ones. Thus, the park makes an enormously important contribution to the restoration of this ecosystem, provides a better income for the local residents and the mangroves bind large quantities of the climate-damaging CO2.
Donate mangroves
Every mangrove counts for our unique Malizia Mangrove Park. The price of 0.33 euros for a mangrove covers collecting the seeds, growing the saplings in the nurseries and exposing the mangroves.
We have prepared for donations: 20 euros = 60. 50 euros = 150 or 100 euros = 300 mangroves.
Why Mangroves?
In the meantime, the mangroves in the Philippines are under nature protection, because they are the most important ecosystem in the world alongside the rainforest. An intact mangrove belt not only provides breeding areas for fish, but also food for birds and reptiles, fish and crabs. At the same time, a mangrove belt protects the coral reefs and the shore from erosion. Strong storm tide waves are also reduced.
Energy self-sufficiency
The yacht moves only through the power of the wind in its sails. To supply the communication and safety-related equipment on board, solar modules from Solbian Solar with 1.3 kW power and two Sea-Hydro generators generate the energy that is required on board from the power of the water. As an example, in 2019, four voyages across the Atlantic ocean were completed without using any fossil fuels at all.
Boris Herrmann – Patron of the Malizia Mangroves Park
The mangrove subscription
A mangrove every day, doing good every day
With the mangrove subscription, we plant a mangrove for you every day in the Malizia mangrove park. Supported by Vendée Globe sailor Boris Herrmann, we are fighting climate change, preserving biodiversity and protecting coastal areas.
One-off donation of mangroves
Together we can save the climate, mangroves are super important – join in!
Offers for companies
Certificates for your employees or customers
A great gift idea for your employees and customers! As a corporate customer, you have the opportunity to purchase certificates in the design of your choice for your employees or customers. You donate the desired number of mangroves and we will send you individual certificates. We are happy to receive your inquiries.
Mama Earth – Planting is our Life
Boris Herrmann, one of the world’s best ocean racing yachtsmen, the Mama Earth Foundation in the Philippines and the founder of the Meaalofa Foundation, Andreas Müller-Hermann, launched the Malizia Mangrove Park project in 2020. The aim is to plant five million mangroves in the bay of Mati in the south of Mindanao, the southernmost island in the Philippines. In the meantime, the project has developed very well and thanks to your help, almost two million mangrove trees have already been planted (as of September 2024). One mangrove binds at least 5 kg of CO2 per year, in reality often up to 10 kg. Averaged over a period of 25 years, this means a considerable reduction in CO2.
Boris Herrmann and his team Malizia are promoting this project. The Mama Earth Foundation is on site, organizing all measures in the Philippines and involving local residents and the local university. The Meaalofa Foundation helps to coordinate the various partners and sponsors and covers the costs of the advertising material.
According to law, a foundation stands for transparency and openness. Therefore, all costs of the Mama Earth Foundation are subject to an annual audit.
Location: Guang Guang (part of Bajuda Bay), Mati, Mindanao, Philippines
We plant in Mati
All mangrove plantations are controlled by the “Davao Oriental State University”. The students, together with the forest managers of Mama Earth, supervise the upbringing of the seedlings in the nurseries and oversee the planting operations. They are also responsible for controlling the plantations and its documentation. As part of their education, they prepare studies about the mangroves, which are made publicly available to everyone interested. Additionally, it is planned to finance a vigorous study under the direction of Dr. Lea AngSinco-Jiminec and Dr. Johnglen Seniel, which will measure the amount of CO2 released into the soil. Local schools will also be involved to teach children about nature and environmental protection.
The university produces a report every six months to ensure the transparency of the project. The plantings are also documented with drone footage, videos, photos and entries in Google Earth maps. The good thing about Google Earth is that you can use the time slider to see the situation before planting and after planting. There is a KML file for each of the individual areas so that you can fly to the planting areas by double-clicking in Explorer.
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The white areas show the newly surveyed areas, which together cover more than 127 hectares.
One of the areas in detail. Our foresters and five others from Mati walked all the areas to make the maps.
All available vehicles were loaded with mangroves.
Our partners in Mati did a good job.
Further projects in Collaboration with Mama Earth in and around Mati
Amihan Boys – Turtle Nursery
At the worldwide known surf spot Dahican Beach, Mati, only about 1.5 km from the planting areas of the Malizia Mangrove Park, the “Amihan Boys”, a private aid organization, is committed to the protection of the sea turtle population and keeping the beach free from plastic. Involved in this project are street children, who take part in these activities as well as learning a lot about marine conservation. At the same time, they are supported with food items and it is ensured that they get a school education.
The beach, which is now overrun with tourists, is an important egg-laying site for green sea turtles. The beach is monitored at night by the “Amihan Boys” and the laid eggs are transferred to a protected area on the beach to ensure that they hatch undisturbed. Further, they collect plastic on the beach, which is a great danger for the turtles and in general for the environment.
The plastic project
Unfortunately, plastic is also a problem in the newly reforested areas of Malizia Mangrove Park. The plastic damages the seedlings and might even rip them out of the ground when the water retreats during low tide. Therefore, the plastic is continuously collected and removed from these areas as well.
The plastic from Dahican Beach is sorted by the “Amihan Boys” and “purchased” by Mama Earth and then taken to a recycling plant in Davao by Mama Earth Foundation truck just like the plastic collected in the planting areas. This waste is then transformed into colorful chairs. Mama Earth then gives these chairs free of charge to local schools that cannot afford to buy any themselves.
For each bag of sorted plastic, the Mama Earth Foundation gives either one kilo of rice or the equivalent amount in money to the “Amihan Boys” so that they can continue their project and the support of the street children.
The destructive effect of plastic waste is well known: It is eaten by marine animals, e.g. turtles and can then quickly be fatal, it damages the coral reefs and the newly planted mangroves. When it gradually decomposes into microplastic, it enters the food chain and ends up in all living creatures including humans, leading to gradual poisoning. Collecting it is an important first step, but of course, preventing the plastic from being dumped into the oceans in the first place is the goal for the future.
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