Rainforest Rescue long term supporter Wendy Johnson has made a movie about the Daintree Rainforest in Queensland, Australia.  Rainforest Rescue has been instrumental in purchasing 10 properties in the Daintree and is about the buy the 11th property, which will be protected forever under a conservation agreement.

“There are another 200 rainforested properties we could purchase so that residential development in the area is kept to a minimum” said Jeni Cavanagh, long term supporter and Administration Manager of Rainforest Rescue.

Watch Wendy’s movie here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wU2kytIXhQ

The Burning Season Movie is a story following a young Australian Carbon Trading entrepreneur Dorjee Sun who wants to rescue the orangutans. This is a production by Cathy Henkel and Jeff Canin and the great news is it is selling out in New York at Robert De Niro’s Tribecca Film Festival. Read the rest of this entry »

Rainforest Rescue has funded the planting of 5000 trees in the Gunung Leuser National Park in North Sumatra, restoring vital Orangutan habitat and empowering local communities to protect and improve their environment and surrounding forests.

The Gunung Leuser National Park is in a state of rehabilitation and is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site with protection rights. Through its partner organisation, Rainforest Rescue is empowering local people in farmer groups to provide security to the tree planting sites. The farmer groups also monitor and replace any dead trees. Main pests are wild pigs who scratch and uproot new plantings.

The project is managed through a system that supports the local community to carry out the work. The community self-managed group, ‘Ketapel’ work every afternoon of every day on-site, weeding, maintaining plantings and the nursery, and planting new seedlings. The location for the Rainforest Rescue planting has been identified and is approximately 1km from the nursery.

Throughout the last northeast monsoon period in 2008, Rainforest Rescue funded the replanting of eight acres of degraded rainforest patches and rubber plantations with over 5000 native rainforest trees. Over 30 endemic rainforest plants and tree species including Shoria tripesipolia, Duna ceylanica and Dipterocarpus zeylanica were planted.

The plantings were carried out on land in the Galle district villages of Baddegama and Hiniduma in the lowlands of south western Sri Lanka. The plantings were part of a community initiative and over 200 community members took part in the two-week long replanting program. Local communities engaged with the project in order to rebuild the essential ecosystem services that have been degraded through inappropriate land management practices. Read the rest of this entry »