Hello everyone Exciting news from the RSPB campaigns!Harapan Rainforest is a forest under threat, and if we don’t act now, this rainforest and its amazing wildlife will be gone in five years. Saving it is a huge challenge but with your help and our expertise it can be saved. Sumatra lies north-west of Australia between the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is one of the 17,508 islands that form the world's largest chain of islands, Indonesia. Our ambitious project to restore habitat of this scale and importance is not a task undertaken lightly. The success of this campaign will depend on your support.Saving Harapan rainforest will involve the use of several different approaches. This is because most of the forest has been logged in the past, and different parts are in different condition. The fact that the forest supports so much rare and forest-dependent wildlife even though it is not pristine reflects the extraordinary biological richness of the ecosystem it represents, and underlines the importance of our work to conserve it. The new planting and management project is different to the previous work and resulting funding propositions because of its size - it is the biggest push for regeneration/planting we have seen in Harapan Rainforest. The project within a project will connect rainforest in the northeast with rainforest in the southwest and is a vital part of restoring canopy and all varying heights of vegetation across vast areas of badly degraded (logged) rainforest. The aim is to join the ‘good parts’ of the rainforest by planting corridors of trees that include 57 ‘Framework Species’. Over time ‘roughly sixty years for the highest canopy to grow’, the planted forest will become a wildlife corridor connecting two big areas of ‘good’ rainforest and this will be good for all manners of wildlife.Thanks for your support
Tom
Why not check out the news from the wildlife enquiries team?
Check out the new Wildlife enquiries blog here. This week in the spotlight is our Harapan one million tree appeal and the Sumatran tiger.
Thank You
I couldn't think of a better way to spend £2. This money will help plant and nuture a tree which will over time support a whole host of amazing creatures. A truly awe inspiring project to be part of.
Claire
Thanks Tom for bringing this to our notice. As Mrs T says, even a small contribution goes a long way.
as much as i care for the rain forests i am more concerned about the trees in surrey thats being cut down for houseing we dont want or need i cant see try to protect rain forests if we cant protect the trees in our back garden
what do the people think when there being ask to do some think we are not prepared to do in our own country
the friedly bid watcher
Hi Tom
Thank you for bringing this appeal to our attention. :-)
It sounds like a project that is really worthy or our support.
Best wishes Chris
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As much as pumping money into our national conservation projects it is really important to look after those places of natural important elsewhere.
Many of the countries that have huge amounts of rainforest are poor and poverty can led to drastic measures such as cutting down these vital ecosystems to make way for palm oil to gain profit.
The other important factor is that a few hundred square miles of rain forest will support a massive wealth of wildlife in which some of these species only exsist in those parts.
With money used from the UK we can help these countries and set them on a path to educating thier own people on the importance of saving these habitats.
There are plenty examples of this but a really good book to read which explains about trying to find the balance is Lonesome George by Henry Nicholls. The Galapagos islands are a prime example of trying to balance the wildlife and its people.
Keep up the great work :)
Regards
Craig
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. - Albert Einstein
Thank you, very worthy cause indeed.
Kind regards Jane.