Reforestation regenerates and protects critical ecosystems and improves forest health and resilience. It also reduces the amount of carbon dioxide and methane in the air and mitigates climate change. Ian Oelrichs was deeply concerned about the devastating impacts of climate change and a passionate supporter of SIES. Your support either as a one off donation or by fostering a forest will help continue the important work of Ian Oelrichs and local conservationists in Way Kambas National Park. 
Choose your monthly contribution

Foster a Forest and make a real difference

By ‘fostering a forest’, you will be regenerating, protecting and securing degraded land in
​ Sumatra and turning it back into forest.  Your contribution continues Ian's dream and employs local people to expand forest. 

Every acre saved
Every acre saved in Sumatra provides a home for critically endangered tigers, rhinoceroses, elephants, orangutans, hundreds of smaller animals such as the tiny mouse deer, beautiful clouded leopard and singing gibbons, also birds, reptiles and insects.  

Extinction is forever - Wildlife facts (IUCN Redlist May 2016)

  • Sumatran rhinoceros Dicerorhinus sumatrensis is Critically Endangered with a population estimate of 100.
  • Sumatran tiger Panthera tigris ssp. sumatrae is Critically Endangered with a population estimate of 400-500.
  • Sumatran elephant Elephas maximus ssp. sumatranus is Critically Endangered with a population estimate of 2,600.
  • Sumatran orangutan (Pongo Abelii) are Critically Endangered with a population estimate of 14,600.
  • Bornean orangutan (Pongo Pygmaeus) are Endangered with a population estimate of 54,000

Just 1 cup of coffee each week 

For the cost of just 1 cup of coffee each week you can help bring back a home for animals hovering on the edge of extinction.
 
Join a dynamic group of local people making it happen right now. 

​SIES is working with local people to regrow and protect forests in Sumatra to re-establish forest for the wildlife.

How you are helping

Each month your Foster a Forest contribution will fund the secure protection of more and more forest in Sumatra  for critically endangered wildlife, which are close to extinction.

Foster a Forest - Cost calculation 
For $20 per month (4 cups of coffee) your contribution will be regenerating and protecting an acre of forest in Way Kambas National Park, Southern Sumatra. 

In Way Kambas we are regenerating and protecting 300km2 (74,000 acres) and employing 150 poor local villagers at a cost $45,000 per year. 
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A contribution of $20/month pays for 400 acres of forest every year.
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This land will be reforested with your help. Photo credit: Google
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Rare Camera trap photo Rhino mother & calf. Photo Credit: Way Kambas NP and PKHS.