Current Education Projects
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Providing secondary school teachers and their pupils with science-based skills, knowledge and technical support, enabling their involvement in effective forest ecosystem restoration. Free teaching on seed collection, germination and growing trees in nurseries. Support for 4 school tree nurseries per year. A network for swapping tree seed species among schools. Technical assistance with tree planting and follow up.
Past Education Projects
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To enhance the capacity of Karen communities in the Kawthoolei region to implement improved forest restoration and sustainable forest management.
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This project is strengthening forest-related higher education in Laos and Thailand by developing new learning and teaching tools (including online teaching) to build capacity for sustainable forest management and forest restoration & rural livelihoods.
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Assisting a local school to offset their carbon footprint, whilst also collecting data on performance of candidate framework tree species for restoring bamboo-deciduous forest.
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“Forests on Blackboards” (FoB) develops educational materials to enable school children to get involved in tackling local environmental problems, including teachers' manuals and e-learning tools.
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Thailand's Supreme Command, in collaboration with IUCN and FORRU-CMU (Forest Restoration Research Unit, Chiang Mai University), aims to restore forest on 1,440 ha of degraded land at Doi Mae Salong (DMSL), Chiang Rai Province. The project began in 2007. FORRU’s involvement with the project began in establishing a field trial plot, establishing and maintaining 8 community nurseries.