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Lees hier de laatste berichten van of over onze partners en de projecten waarmee we samenwerken.
Women and Nature thrive in Kilwa district Southern Tanzania
When women thrive, nature thrives. Mpingo Conservation & Development Initiative (MCDI) in collaboration with its Partners is unlocking conservation agriculture opportunities for women’s adaptation to climate change impacts. The Organization is facilitating rural...
GreenTix trots lid van Redd+ Business Initiative
Het REDD+ Business Initiative (RBI) is een niet-commercieel initiatief dat bedrijven ondersteuning biedt bij het compenseren van hun onvermijdbare uitstoot. Dit helpt hen om emissiereductie doelstellingen, zoals CO2-neutraliteit, snel te halen. Zo dragen ze bij aan...
Nieuwe bomen bij Weg naar Zee
Bij Conservation International Suriname, is professor Naipal bezig met een innovatief project aan de Weg naar Zee. Het achterliggende gebied en de bevolking komen in ernstig gevaar wanneer het waterniveau stijgt. Door het planten van mangrovebomen ontstaan natuurlijke...
GreenTix bij NOAH in Zurich
Op 6 en 7 december was GreenTix, samen met John Goedschalk van CI Suriname aanwezig op de NOAH Sustainability Beurs in Zurich. Er zijn veel internationale contacten gelegd, en het enthousiasme over het GreenTix initiatief was groot! Bekijk hier weergave van een...
Nieuwe partner: Conservation International Suriname!
Rainforest Projects, de foundation achter Beautiful Cups, is een samenwerking aangegaan met een nieuwe NGO-partner: Conservation International Suriname! Rainforest Projects maakt zich al langere tijd hard voor het planten van bomen. Dat kan alleen samen met de juiste...
Iwin’s Story
Iwin Bahak lives right next to Leuser National Park and has been working on the land for years. It’s a tough and demanding life, and he’s struggled to make ends meet for years. Poverty is widespread unfortunately and the Corona pandemic makes their society even more...
Great results in 2020, in spite of Covid
This year we took great pleasure again in drawing up the balance sheets here at the office. We are always very happy when we can issue a number of beautiful tree certificates for our customers! Due to all corona measures and working from home, people consumed less...
Introducing: StukjeNatuur
Beautiful Cups and StukjeNatuur provide more trees in the Netherlands. As of February 5, 2021, the StukjeNatuur nature foundation and the sustainable coffee cup supplier Beautiful Cups have entered into a partnership for planting trees in the Netherlands. Beautiful...
Orangutans spotted at Singkil!
Restoration efforts are paying off for orangutans at Singkil Swamp Wildlife Reserve. Singkil Swamp Wildlife Reserve is vitally important both locally and internationally. The Singkil area is home to irreplaceable breeding populations of Sumatran orangutans and other...
Thank you for supporting SOS this year
Here are our favourite good news stories from 2020. Habitat restoration As some of OIC’s restoration staff live on-site all year round, they were able to continue working during Sumatra’s COVID19 lockdowns, planting 132,856 seedlings and restoring over 228 hectares of...
Orangutans spotted at Cinta Raja III Restoration site
Orangutans have been spotted this week at Cinta Raja III, one of the restoration sites we fund in Sumatra. While monitoring tree growth at the site, Restoration Manager Rio spotted this female orangutan and her baby eating fruit in one of the trees above him. Just a...
Ecotourism hand in hand with forest management
Mchakama is a village located 65 km from Kilwa Masoko town, it takes about 90 minutes by car to reach the village. The village also can be reached through motorcycle and bicycle from Mavuji junction. The majority of the village members are smallholder farmers...
Drink tea to plant trees
SOS is delighted to share that their friends at Reforest Tea have just launched a deliciously spicy Reforest Chai Tea. For the rest of 2020, all profits from the sale of this tea will support SOS’s reforestation projects in Sumatra. Reforest Tea is an independent...
Primary School club addressing the threat of the environment
Forests represent a lifeline for the millions of poor Tanzanians living in rural areas, where they rely on forest products for fuel, food, income, and other uses. Despite this, forest destruction in the country is happening at an alarming rate of 400,000 hectares per...
Reducing human-tiger conflict
This photo by Darma from Nature For Change shows a Sumatran tiger footprint near a village in the Bukit Lawang area. A tiger footprint is exciting for us when we see one in a restoration site, far from people, but it’s a frightening prospect for farmers who face...
Nature For Change patrol teams
Nature For Change runs patrol teams made up of Nature For Change staff, community members and the national park authority. Their tasks include making border signs for Gunung Leuser National Park, planting betel nut trees along the park border and carrying out wildlife...