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Mahogany Roraima is a forest planting company established by Brazilian technology entrepreneurs Marcello Guimarães and Eduardo Guimarães. The company is planting a 40,000 hectare sustainable mahogany forest over ten years, combined with reforestation of native trees . In order to scale up these tree-planting projects, Mahogany Roraima is developing prototypes of autonomous forest management machines or Forest Bots.

Roraima, Brasil

Mahogany Roraima Forest Bots

Mahogany Roraima's proposed forestation project involves planting 50% of a 40,000 ha area with African mahogany (Khaya senegalensis), which will later be cut down for timber, and the other 50% with native trees , which will not be cut, with the aim of reducing disease through species variety. A related project involves the large-scale restoration of native trees in the state of Roraima, again with the aim of harvesting half of the trees and leaving the others intact.

MahoganyRoraima_ForestBot

Graphic rendering of the Real Carbon Capture Machine (RCCM), an automated tree planting machine. Image source: Mahogany Roraima [image]. Retrieved 27 July 2022, from https://mahoganyroraima.com.br/real-carbon-capture-machine/

Mahogany Roraima draw on principles from Industry 4.0 and smart agriculture in developing technologies for forest operations. The Real Carbon Capture Machine (RCCM) currently in development aims towards a self-driving system with GPS guidance, automated processes of planting, watering, fertilising, and monitoring, AI and 3D-imaging for forest inventory and analysis and recording of all actions in a cloud-based database accessible to partners and investors. The current prototype forest planting machine, is tractor-operated and has the capacity to plant approximately 3,600 seedlings per hour.