Super excited today to launch of Forest Love initiative and announce our partnership with Chloris Geospatial.
You can learn more about the partnership from the Chloris post below. Bottom line for us is that we really see their technology as a game changer in our collective efforts to understand and better protect, yes, better love our forests and all the magical things they bring us.
Why Forest Love?
Pond Foundation wants to highlight and nurture the spiritual connection between humans and forests and the word ‘love’ captures how we feel about forests and how we want to inspire others to feel about them. We could have called it the Forest Protection Initiative, or something similarly bland and boring, but there’s nothing bland or boring about forests.
Forests teem with vibrant, magical life; they’re great for the planet, for so many species and for humans too. We see people as being integral to forest ecosystems, not separate from them and not a part that should ever be separated by political or forest management decisions. We acknowledge, deeply respect, and love the role that indigenous and local communities play in protecting forests the world over. A central part of Forest Love’s work will be to help communities secure the resources they need to continue their work to both protect their forests and grow their communities. Another part is to help people who have become disconnected from forests to find reconnection to that most ancient current.
Our goal.
So many forests are under threat – from logging, fire, mining, agricultural clearance, pests, and disease and most insidiously, from climate change. If we lose them, we lose life itself. Our goal is to support the protection of as many hectares of forest as we possibly can.
We'll share more about Forest Love in future posts, but for now, we're celebrating this partnership with Chloris Geospatial that will underpin this work.
What do data, forest, and love have in common? 📊 🌳 💚
More than you think, especially when it comes to forest conservation.
Today, we are thrilled to announce our partnership with Pond Foundation, led by CEO and Founder, Scott Poynton.
Through its Forest Love initiative, Pond Foundation is doing exceptional work in finding innovative ways to protect and better manage nature, while empowering local communities to protect and heal their forests through innovation.
Read more about our partnership and the Tanoe-Ehy Forest project at: https://lnkd.in/dfa4ua7s
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Director of Marketing at Wesselman Woods
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