Project Report
| Mar 11, 2011
See how well our seedlings are doing!
By Helen Buckland | UK Director
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Ari at Besitang
This is Ari, the manager of our forest restoration site at Besitang, North Sumatra - as you can see, our tree seedlings are growing really well! In the background you can see some oil palms - these were illegally planted in the national park, and we're gradually cutting them down and replacing them with rainforest tree seedlings. As you can see from this little film, taken with camera traps at this site, wildlife is starting to return to the area: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3bk4eDjA7U Thank you so much for donating to this project - we love sharing these successes with our supporters.
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Feb 18, 2011
Some fantastic images from Sumatra
By Helen Buckland | UK Director
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Curious macaque
Earlier this month, we installed some camera traps at our forest restoration site in Besitang, north Sumatra. We've already received some fantastic images showing the wildlife that is using this area, and have created a short film showing what happened when a curious macaque came across one of the cameras:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QPx1VJhUGw
It's wonderful to be able to share evidence with our supporters that our restoration work is great news for the wildlife of Sumatra - please share this far and wide with family, friends and colleagues!
And thank you, as always, for your support.
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Nov 28, 2010
Moving into new areas
By Helen Buckland | UK Director
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Community tree planting scheme
Thanks to your support, we have been training local people in the Besitang region of North Sumatra to manage tree nurseries, growing indigneous seedlings and planting them on damaged areas of land within the Gunung Leuser National Park. Our team have reported evidence of lots of wildlife starting to return to the area - including orangutans, Siamangs, White-handed gibbons, leopard cats, as well as many endangered and critically endangered bird species too. With the restoration site up and running successfully, we are now planning to expand our work to a new part of the Leuser forests - Ketambe in the Aceh province of Sumatra. Whilst carrying out another project in the area, helping the local community to compose conservation action plans for their villages, we discovered that their farmlands had been encroaching on the national park. So we have begun working with the people of Ketambe to help them understand why protecting the forests is important, and they now fully support setting up a restoration site, which they will manage in order to undo the damage. They will also become guardians of this part of the park, ensuring that encroachment doesn't happen in the future. All the communities we work with become part of a network of "conservation villages", and we will continue to support the community in Besitang as well as beginning work in Ketambe.
Thank you, as always, for your support.
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