Is your school ready to get directly involved in forest restoration?
The Young Forest Restorers (YFR) project can help, by providing teachers and their pupils with science-based skills, knowledge and funding support, to enable them to perform effective forest ecosystem restoration. Here's how:
- 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. Our capacity is limited to assisting 4 schools per year ... on a first come first served basis.
For more info please read the report on successful completion of the 1st year of the project through the "download" panel and our plans for year 2.
We greatly appreciate sponsorship of this project by the Keidanren Nature Conservation Foundation.
1: Young Forest Restorers—Action Book
This user-friendly booklet guides school children through a series of hands-on forest-restoration activities from seed collection and germination to growing trees in nurseries, tree planting,...
2: Exploring the Environment & Nature of Chiang Mai: a Teachers' Handbook—ENGLISH VERSION
The Thai version of the manual received 3rd prize in the writing category of the Green Globe Institute Awards. Phai and Som (our education officers), who were primary writers and designers of...
3: Restoring Tropical Forests: a Practical Guide
Available in English, Spanish and French The authors at a publishers' meeting, Kew 2012Restoring Tropical Forests is a hands-on guide to restoring degraded tropical forest ecosystems. Based...
4: Grow a Forest with Lin and Sai - an illustrated story for children
This book is available in a multitude of languages and is open-access. See the download panel on the right, to get a copy in your language. If you cannot find your language there ... you are...
5: The role of botanic gardens in the science and practice of ecological restoration
ABSTRACT: Many of the skills and resources, associated with botanic gardens and arboreta, including plant taxonomy, horticulture and seed bank management, are fundamental to ecological restoration...
6: A Technical Strategy for Restoring Krabi’s Lowland Tropical Forest
This report is one of the outputs from the project “Gurney’s Pitta Research and Conservation in Thailand and Myanmar”, implemented by the U.K.’s Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB)...
7: How to Plant a Forest: The Principles and Practice of Restoring Tropical Forests
FORRU-CMU's second practical training manual was published in 2005. It includes generic principles of restoration theory and practice, applicable throughout the tropics, as well as descriptions...
8: Saving Thailand's Forest: a helping hand from Britain's Darwin Initiative
Kirby Doak was the second of several skilled and enthusiastic Australian Youth Ambassadors, who uplifted FORRU-CMU's education and outreach program, from 2001 to 2010. In this article in Chiang...
9: Reaping the rewards of reforestation
Although rapidly growing human populations make continued tropical destruction and the accompanying loss of biodiversity seem inevitable, Hmong hill-tribe villagers in the north of Doi Suthep-Pui...
10: Implementing the Agenda
The main outcome of FORRU-CMU's first international workshop was the "Chiang Mai Research Agenda for the Restoration of Degraded Forest Lands for Wildlife Conservation in Southeast Asia". This...