Community Forests Program - Java Community Mahogany Project  Indonesia The KOSTAJASA cooperative is a group of 494 families growing mahogany trees in forests adjacent to their homes on the island of Java. The goal of KOSTAJASA is to create a sustainable economy for the community by managing these forests for many generations. The cooperative currently manages 84 hectares and wants to grow to over 3,000 hectares.
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Community Forests Program - KHJL Cooperative for Sustainable Teak  Indonesia The KHJL Cooperative assists hundreds of landowners to sustainably manage and earn family wages from teak plantations. Their work is proving that small-scale agroforests are essential to combat large-scale deforestation in the region.
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Natural Forest Program - Dwima Jaya Sustainable Concessions  Indonesia Dwima Jaya’s goal is to stop the rampant deforestation in the Central Kalimantan region of Indonesia, and to put in place long-term solutions for conservation. This community-based organization manages four natural forest concessions to a high set of environmental and cultural standards, and provides jobs in local villages to steward these rich tropical lands.
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Natural Forests Program - Protecting biodiversity in Sumatra  South Solok, Indonesia The forest concession of Andalas Merapi Timber (AMT) is part of a biodiversity hot spot and crucial to mitigating climate change. Yet despite these values, the daily threat of deforestation to meet subsistence needs of local farmers is all too real. In partnership with AMT and local villagers, TFT is working to protect the forest while also improving rural livelihoods.
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Cool Forests Program - The Centre of Social Excellence  Brazzaville, Congo, Republic of The Centre of Social Excellence (CSE) is up and running! This unique and innovative school run by TFT is located at the heart of the Congo Basin and is dedicated to training the next generation of leaders and teachers in sustainable forest management.
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Natural Forests Program - Radio Biso Na Biso  Congo, Republic of Now live on air, ‘Biso Na Biso’ is the first Indigenous peoples’ language radio station in the Congo Basin! The radio waves span over 1.3 million hectares of tropical forest and allows over 16,000 Pygmy living in the forests to better communicate with each other and defend their rights. They can now communicate their concerns about industrial logging in their forest, and a real dialogue is possible about how to share the forest resources for the benefit of everyone. Biso Na Biso is their new tool to protect their traditional way of life and their forest.
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