Regenerating Rainforests

by Health in Harmony
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Project Report | Sep 25, 2024
New Piece of Research Confirms that Community Effort Matters

By Justina Poskeviciute | Individual Giving Associate

Saplings turning to young trees in Indonesia
Saplings turning to young trees in Indonesia

We are grateful for your commitment to planetary health and your continued investment in community-led climate solutions in Indonesia. Here are some exciting updates on how a major media outlet has recently spotlighted and amplified our work.

Health In Harmony’s Research Manager, Nina Finley was recently interviewed by The New York Times about the work you have been generously supporting over the past years. In the interview, Nina reflected on an exciting piece of research that appeared in the scientific journal of Tropical Natural History this year, which found that community-based reforestation efforts were demonstrably successful, especially in terms of restoring heavily degraded lowland rainforest and peat swamp forest to viable habitat for wildlife. 

One powerful example of community engagement’s impact can be seen at Health In Harmony’s sites in Indonesia. In one of these locations, once the villagers were hired to water and weed the land regularly, the survival rate of saplings rose significantly, to more than 70 percent now.

This shows that when communities are directly involved in caring for their environment, the results speak for themselves: in this case, scientific evidence demonstrates how the survival of young plants is improved when a community effort is made to care for them. This is just one of the many examples where community-designed solutions prove that community engagement truly matters. 

This success, like all the community-led initiatives in Indonesia, is made possible because of your support. Your belief in our shared mission enables Health In Harmony to empower rainforest communities to implement solutions designed directly by them, for them. For this, we are deeply grateful.

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