REFORESTRATION PROJECT MALAYSIA
Protect-Reforest-Rewild
RAINFOREST AID FOUNDER; IRSHAD MOBARAK
Rainforest Aid is an initiative and Project started by Irshad Mobarak in Langkawi Island. There is an urgent need to ensure that remaining forested areas in Langkawi are protected and taken care of for generations to come to enjoy.
MAY THE FOREST BE WITH YOU
Caring for trees and the environment is the social responsibility of every individual. Plant a tree and create positive environmental change by being a RainforestAid.org conservation advocate. Furthermore, by purchasing trees for reforestation, you can rest assured that your fruitful effort goes a long way. Your support is very significant for us. No amount is too little to contribute to the conservation of nature.
VISION
To protect and restore the natural heritage of the nation through the establishment of a connected system of wildlands to stem the disappearance of wildlife and wilderness we must allow the recovery of whole ecosystems and landscapes in every region of the country
MISSION
We are ambitious that we live for the day where we will see when humans dwell with respect, harmony, and affection for the land when we come to live no longer as conquerors but as stewards of the Earth
CHALLENGES
These remaining wildlands are too small and too isolated to perpetuate the nations biological wealth:. Top predators including the tiger, leopard, birds of prey including owls have been greatly reduced and are imperiled in much of the remaining habitats. The disappearance of these top predators and other keystone species hastens the unraveling of ecosystems and impoverishes the lives of human beings.
Forest has been cleared, encroached and fragmented leaving only small isolated habitats of once vast ecosystems. Roads cut through the remaining wildlife corridors resulting in many road kills and animals shying from migrating between habitats. A rising tide of invasive exotic species, animals and plants threatens these ecosystems even further with extinction. We reject the notion that wilderness is merely a remote destination suitable only for backpacking. We see wilderness as a wild home for unfettered life. Wilderness means:
The extensive road less areas-vast, self regulated landscapes- free of mechanized human use and sounds and construction of modern civilization. Viable, self-reproducing populations of all native species, including top predators. Natural patterns of diversity at the genetic, species, ecosystem, and landscape levels
METHOD
We will seek partnerships with grassroots and national conservationist organizations, government agencies, individuals, private land owners, and with naturalist, scientist and conservationist throughout the nation. We seek to heal nature’s wounds by designing and creating wildlands networks and by restoring critical species and ecological process to the land. Case studies that celebrate architecture. Exclusive access to design insights.
We will advocate and campaign for the:
- Establishment of large areas of wild habitats (Core Ecological Reserves) where plants and animals are unrestrained, where native species thrive, and where nature determines their evolutionary fate
- Establish extensive linkages between large natural areas to ensure the continuation of migration and other movements vital for the survival of healthy populations
- We must support the reintroduction of threatened native species
- Supporting the designation of new conservation areas and improve the management of existing public lands
- Campaigning for better land use practice such as sustainable agriculture, sustainable forestry and sustainable fishery
With your purchases we will actively contribute by:
- Purchasing marginal agricultural lands around and between core ecological zones to increase the buffer zone and re-establish wildlife corridors
- Reforest these marginal lands with suitable native species of plant life
- Promote and conduct the ecological restoration of the watershed areas
- Assisting land owners in the voluntary protection of critical parcels of private land
- Working with planers at all levels to create a balance between the needs of nature and human society
- Promote and conduct the planting of food plants for wildlife on private and public lands
- Inspiring and educating the local communities in care of their environment, for its own sake and for the sake of those yet to come
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