Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Drought?

It’s very unusual for us to experience several consecutive days with no significant rain, but we live in very unusual times. We’ve been carrying buckets of water to the recently-planted trees each day – watering the rainforest! – in order to help them to pull through this challenging time. Thankfully, yesterday finally brought us some much-needed rain.

This is not new for us; we remember well the droughts of 2023 and 2024. Those were allegedly the result of El Niño, and that probably did increase the severity, but we’ve seen for ourselves what is drying the Amazon:

Unless and until the destruction of the forest comes to an end, the climate will only destabilise further, and the drought-flood cycle will wreak havoc as the vegetation bakes and the animals starve.

Do you care?

If the idea of the largest rainforest in the world drying out and dying disturbs you – if that is something that you would prefer to prevent from happening – then please, don’t just sit and mope – find the courage to do something about it.

If nothing else, you can come here and help us to carry water, plant more pinto peanut, and mulch around the trees until the canopy closes and the shade mitigates (somewhat) this climate catastrophe. The Super-Duper Godzilla El Niño cometh, but have no fear; if we take care of the forest, the forest will take care of us.

Who’s afraid of the big bad drought? Not us.