Is your school ready to get directly involved in forest restoration?
- Hands-on experience sessions on seed collection, germination and growing forest tree in nurseries as well as technical assistance with tree-planting and follow-up, including calculation of carbon offset—provided free of charge.
- User-friendly teaching materials, to support the above - including online learning and awarding of certificates to participating students—also free.
- Technical and financial support, to establish on-campus tree nurseries to 4 schools per year.
- A network, for swapping of tree-seed species among schools, via CMU's central seed bank—for even wider collaboration, establishing a YFR community.
- Teachers' meetings, to share ideas, and an annual “Forest Celebration”, where schools can share their experiences and raise awareness of forest issues with the general public and maybe even influence policy makers
The YFR project is aimed at mid-secondary schools in and around Chiang Mai city (including international schools). So, if your school would like to join this project, please let us know via the contact us tab. For more info please access the annual project reports and the Action Book via the download panel and related items below.
Unfortunately funding for this project (from KNCF), ended in April 2025. So, we are no longer able to provide YFR services free of charge to local schools. However, we are actively seeking alternative funding and hope to resume with Phase-2 of the project very soon—supporting YFR in more schools and continuing to develop new activities, such as virtual forest and augmented reality. Watch this space for developments. Regular schools outreach services are still available as usual - see this link.
We greatly appreciate sponsorship of this project by the Keidanren Nature Conservation Foundation .
For a wide range of teaching tools on local environmental issues please see also our Forests on Blackboards teachers' manuals, also previously sponsored by KNCF.
