Gift card with a tree in Indonesia

We partnered up with the One-Tree-One-Life Campaign to plant trees in Indonesia and save the orangutans.
The Indonesian rainforests are amongst the most biodiverse in the world, they provide oxygen for us and regulate our global climate. Nevertheless, 1.3 million hectares of rainforest are destroyed every year in Borneo alone. This is one of the highest deforestation rates worldwide. Day after day, the habitat of orangutans and other critically endangered species is vanishing. Oftentimes, forest is slashed and burnt, resulting in annual forest and peat fires that—in addition to the loss of biodiversity—accelerate climate change and endanger the health of millions of people.
Through the One-Tree-One-Life-Campaign, BOS Schweiz therefore supports the reforestation of destroyed rainforest areas. The tree-planting is done by volunteers as well as local communities and employees of BOS Foundation in Borneo, Indonesia.
Projects:
BOS reforestation projects in East-Kalimantan (Samboja Lestari) and Central-Kalimantan (in the Mawas area).
 
Reforestation in Samboja Lestari, East-Kalimantan
In 2015, 300 hectares of rainforest around the BOS rescue and rehabilitation center in Samboja Lestari also fell victim to the flames. Today and as part of the One-Tree-One-Life-Campaign, BOS Schweiz is replanting this area together with volunteers and employees of BOS Foundation. The seedlings are produced locally and grown in our own tree nurseries. A mix of fruit and timber trees are planted—all endemic and mostly endangered species. Around 220 hectares still need to be replanted in Samboja Lestari.
The Samboja Lestari forest is not home to a wild orangutan population. Instead, BOS uses the forest to prepare recued but traumatized, injured or orphaned orangutans for a life in the wild. Today, Samboja Lestari is one of the last green islands in the region which needs to be conserved. 
 
Reforestation in the Mawas-Area, Central-Kalimantan
Likewise, it is important to preserve one of the most valuable but heavily affected and degraded peat swamp forests of Indonesia located in the Mawas area.
During the 1990s, Indonesia aimed to fight widespread hunger by establishing a self-sufficient rice production. For that purpose, about 1 million hectares of peat forest were designated for rice cultivation and destroyed. In Borneo alone, 4,000km of drainage canals were created to allow for this agricultural production. The plan did not succeed, and the rice project has been abandoned.
Since 2003, BOS Foundation in Indonesia has been responsible for protecting and restoring some of those destroyed areas in the Mawas region. This is critical because the Mawas conservation forest is home to more than 2,500 wild orangutans—one of the largest known wild orangutan populations in the world!
In 2013, Mawas was declared an area of high conservation value. However, illegal logging, poaching as well as wildfires continue to threaten the precious wildlife and its habitat. The former drainage canals facilitate these illegal activities: they are frequently used to enter the conservation area and to transport illegally cut wood and bush meat. In addition, in 2015 and 2019, large forest areas were destroyed by fires. Because peat forests store up to 50 times more carbon than usual rainforests, fires in those areas as well as the drying-out of the peat swamps have a devastating effect on our world climate.
Through the One-Tree-One-Life-Campaign, BOS Schweiz supports two reforestation projects in the Mawas area: the Tuanan Project and the SOS Borneo Project. Both initiatives aim to close drainage channels, to train and equip fire protection teams and to replant burnt and otherwise degraded areas. Seedlings are grown in our own tree nurseries and planted by local communities. Accompanying microcredit projects establish alternative sources of income to stop illegal logging and poaching.
 
The cost are divided to create the gift card (11CHF) and to plant a tree in indonesia (8CHF)
 
*Our trustful planting partner is BOS Schweiz Borneo Orangutan Survival Association (BOS) Schweiz, which is a Swiss non-profit organization