Is your school ready to get directly involved in forest restoration?
The Young Forest Restorers (YFR) project can help, by providing teachers and their pupils with science-based skills, knowledge and funding support, to enable them to perform effective forest ecosystem restoration. Here's how:
- Hands-on experience sessions on seed collection, germination and growing forest tree in nurseries as well as technical assistance with tree-planting and follow-up, including calculation of carbon offset—provided free of charge.
- User-friendly teaching materials, to support the above - including online learning and awarding of certificates to participating students—also free.
- Technical and financial support, to establish on-campus tree nurseries to 4 schools per year.
- A network, for swapping of tree-seed species among schools, via CMU's central seed bank—for even wider collaboration, establishing a YFR community.
- Teachers' meetings, to share ideas, and an annual “Forest Celebration”, where schools can share their experiences and raise awareness of forest issues with the general public and maybe even influence policy makers.
The YFR project is aimed at mid-secondary schools in and around Chiang Mai city (including international schools). So, if your school would like to join this project, please let us know via the contact us tab. Our capacity is limited to assisting 4 schools per year ... on a first come first served basis.
For more info please read the report on successful completion of the 1st year of the project through the "download" panel and our plans for year 2.
We greatly appreciate sponsorship of this project by the Keidanren Nature Conservation Foundation .
