Replântica Project Successfully Concludes Fifth Course of 2025.

From 4 to 8 August, the fifth course of 2025 under the Replântica Project, focusing on forest restoration, was held at the headquarters of the Guapiaçu Ecological Reserve (REGUA), in the state of Rio de Janeiro. The course brought together university students from various institutions across the state.

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With the aim of providing both technical and, above all, practical knowledge on ecological restoration, the course offered a series of activities designed to train the participants. The students experienced five intensive days of hands-on learning in areas that REGUA has been restoring.

They highlighted the class on Watershed and Water Source Management, delivered by Professor Claudia Moster of the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro, as one of their favourites. During this session, they carried out an activity to estimate the flow rate of the Guapiaçu River at one of its points.

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The programme also included classes on Agroforestry Systems, Landscape Ecology, Ecosystem Services, Silvicultural Techniques, Fauna Monitoring, Forest Inventory, Atlantic Forest Restoration, and many other topics.

This initiative is part of the Replântica Project, promoted by the Institute for Technology and Resources Management in the Tropics and Subtropics (ITT) at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences (Germany), in partnership with REGUA and the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ).