Barnens Regnskog
Barnens Regnskog (Children's Rainforest) is a Swedish non-profit organization founded in 1987. Your goal is to raise funds for the conservation of the rainforests. Projects in Thailand, Guatemala, Belize and Ecuador are supported. A total of around 450 km² of rainforest have been protected. Most of the fundraising events take place in Sweden, but also in Germany and the United States.
history
The founding of the organization was inspired by the efforts of nine-year-old elementary school student Roland Tiensuu, his teacher Eha Kern and her husband Bern Kern. In 1987 Eha Kern invited an American biologist to her school in Fagerviks in Sorunda ( Nynäshamn parish) to show them pictures of the Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve. The lecture was given in the context of the topic of the destruction of the rainforests. He made a big impression on the children. Roland Tiensuu suggested that he and his classmates raise funds for the reservation. They started with a cake sale. With that four hectares of rainforest could be bought. The children raised additional money by selling cards, pictures and handicrafts. Soon afterwards, money was being raised for the rainforest in thousands of schools and churches in Sweden. With this the Barnens Regnskog Organization was founded.
The Barnens Regnskog rainforest reserve was opened in 1989 in the Monteverde Reserve. Today it covers an area of 300 km².
Awards
- 1990 Âret Runt
- 1990 Award for social innovation from the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet
- 1991 Goldman Environmental Prize
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Eha Kern & Roland Tiensuu - 1991 Goldman Prize Recipient Europe . Retrieved August 12, 2016.
- ↑ a b Barnens regnskog gör skillnad . Retrieved August 12, 2016.
- ^ A b Nicholas Polunin: World Who Is Who and Does What in Environment and Conservation . Routledge, 2013, ISBN 978-1-306-11581-0 , in the section KERN, Bernd. , S. 1827-1828 ( [1] ).