Uploaded November 2020 | Updated September 2026, 10 hours ago

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Join us for a firsthand personal look at our newest planting project in Borneo! You can help support this amazing project by donating at treesisters.org/give

TreeSisters Australia CEO, Pollyanna Darling, spoke with Nur Febriani, Executive Director of Alam Sehat Lestari (ASRI) and Mahardika Putra, ASRI's Conservation Director, both based in Kalimantan/West Borneo. ASRI is Health in Harmony's partner in Borneo and employs 120 Indonesian staff. Febri and Dika shared:

~ the amazing and inspiring story of transitioning illegal loggers from cutting the forest over to sustainable livelihood activities,
~ what they both love and think is really important about the planting project at Gunung Palung National Park;
~ the chainsaw buyback program and what ASRI will do with all the recovered chainsaws!
~ the unique combined health and environmental approach of this project;
~ the unexpected benefits of Covid-19 provisions; and
the preservation of orangutan habitat, and much more.

To read more please visit us at:
treesisters.org/blog/announcing-the-launch-of-a-new-reforestation-project-in-borneo