Plant a Rainforest in Southeast Asia

Deforestation threatens thousands of species and has devastating consequences for humans. Forest loss jeopardizes human food and water security, threatens plants and animals with extinction, and contributes to climate change, putting communities and wildlife at increased risk of floods, droughts, infectious disease, and other natural disasters.

Wildlife Alliance’s Tropical Reforestation Project combats the impact of illegal logging and slash-and-burn farming practices while providing jobs to local residents. Eighty-two workers, primarily women, work in our tree nursery and care for the saplings year-round.

To date, Wildlife Alliance has replanted more than 733,000 trees in this region. In Cambodia, the winter months are the dry season, and not much planting happens in the fields. The Reforestation teams work on maintaining existing fields and growing seedlings in the nursery. From October to December of last year, the project worked to maintain over 595 hectares of planted forest. This is no easy feat; they spend long days in the sun enriching the soil, growing fibrous grass to prevent erosion, removing weeds, and replacing damaged saplings. In the nursery, the teams peeled and sowed seeds, transfered over 40,000 seedlings from the greenhouse to the shade net, and collected over 262 kgs of indigenous seeds.

Thank you for supporting this vital project, your gift is helping us restore the Southern Cardamom Mountain Range!