Indonesia Rainforest Reserve

Save the Rainforests and their endangered species

Pitch

   Indonesia’s rainforests are home to many animals and many different plant species, but unfortunately, it is all at risk due to the deforestation. Therefore, this project is all about saving the environment. These forests are being cut down and destroyed at a rapid rate by companies who want to take advantage of Indonesia’s multitude of forests, leaving barren and empty landscapes in their wake. I need your help to save rainforests in Indonesia and its biodiversity and inhabiting species. I plan on purchasing land in Indonesia and transforming it into a thriving reserve for the inhabitants of Indonesia’s rainforests.

  This project will take place on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia, on Lake Toba. Building the reserve on Lake Toba will providing a suitable water supply for the reserve, therefore it is a very suitable place to build the reserve.

   Indonesia has some of the highest levels of bio diversity in the world. Indonesia supports 12% of mammal species, 10% of percent of plant species, and 17% of bird species known to man in the world, and it only holds 1% of land on earth. For these reasons, this project means a lot to me, but more importantly in means the survival of all the animal and plant inhabitants of Indonesia. If we act soon, we will be able to save much of the wildlife that currently inhabits Indonesia, because of this, I feel very oblique to protect these species. My goal is to stop the destroying of habitats in Indonesia, and to sustain the wildlife that inhabits Indonesia, in order to save this big piece of earth's environment.

Critical Need

   Indonesia’s threatened and suffering animals need our help to survive and to ensure their existence in this world. Indonesia has 515 different species of mammals in Indonesia, and 135 of them are threatened mammals. Take the Balinese and Javan tigers for example, they have reached extinction leaving the Sumatran tiger as the only surviving Indonesian tiger. Also, it is believed that less than 500 wild Sumatran tigers remain. Many other species are suffering from the cutting down of Indonesia’s forests. These species include: the native Orangutan, the Javan Rhinoceros, the Sumatran Elephant, as well as many other breeding birds, reptiles, amphibians, and plants.

Impact

  This project will greatly affect this planet. For one, it will sustain the wildlife and the biodiversity of Indonesia, which is an important part of the Indonesian culture, and protecting the environment is very important to many people. Secondly, it will protect the resources that Indonesia’s forests hold, and will therefore ensure that we don’t use up most of their resources and be left with no resources let to draw from; this is very important seeing as we really in earth’s biodiversity for our continued survival.

Feasibility

  I plan on running this project from January 2014- January 2015. Also, this project is BIG so we’ll need funding. One of the project’s providers of funds, the Indonesia Rainforest Foundation, is very keen on supporting this project as much as they can. They care a great deal about Indonesia’s forest seeing as it is their mission to protect the wonderful forests that inhabit Indonesia. My second provider of funds is RAN (Rainforest Animal Network). This project also means a lot to them, they already have an article about the forests in Indonesia and how Indonesia’s biodiversity is suffering sue to deforestation.

Project costs

 

-$20000 will go towards creating the legal framework to create and maintain the reserve

-$5000 will go towards creating the reserve: putting up signs ($1000), putting up boundaries for the reserve ($1000), and making the land suitable + any other costs that come up in the creating of the reserve ($2000)

-$25000 will go towards providing services such as putting up a tourist building ($13000), training the locals to give tours ($2000), and other ecosystem services ($10000)

-$75000 will go towards buying land to build the reserve

Last Points

  Indonesia is a country made up of 17 508 islands, and is located south-east of Vietnam and north-west of Australia (in between the two). Indonesia has a presidential system of government (elected political members). Also, orangutans, such as the ones in Indonesia, are very close relatives of humans and share 97% of our dna; do we really want to make these animals suffer for our greed?

Bio/ Personal Info

   I am 14 years old and currently attending Bill Crothers Secondary School. I care about the environment and very much appreciate the beauty of it. I am very involved in sports, my main sport being judo, and it has taught me to be determined, motivated, and confident. I am currently on the Ontario Judo Team and have competed at the Canadian Judo National for the last 2 years. Also, going to a sports school has made me understand the value of teamwork and what you can accomplish with it. My lifetime goals are to medal at the Olympics for judo and to become a Sports medicine doctor, or a Chiropractor. But above all, I am a hard-working, responsible student who wants to make a difference for the better.

Works Cited

"Indonesia's Rainforests: Biodiversity and Endangered Species." Rainforest Action Network. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Nov. 2013. http://ran.org/indonesia%E2%80%99s-rainforests-biodiversity-and-endangered-species 

"Indonesia." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 23 Nov. 2013. Web. 23 Nov. 2013. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesia

"Pucara Community Cloud Forest Reserve by Lynda McCallum - The G Project." Pucara Community Cloud Forest Reserve by Lynda McCallum - The G Project. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Nov. 2013. http://www.thisisyourplanet.com/ideas/communities/138

 "REPLANT THE RAINFOREST." Indonesian Rainforest Foundation RSS. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Nov. 2013. http://www.indonesianrainforest.org/