Based in Indonesia, Junglo helps people plant native forests in their homes, schools and offices, using the Miyawaki Method of afforestation.
It tries to understand the ecosystems that used to exist and aims to bring them back in small pockets, making climate action accessible to everyone. Junglo sees reviving connections between humans and forests as just as important as reviving the forests themselves.
So far they have:
- Planted over 25 forests, totaling over 25,000 trees of 100 different species, and close to 1 hectare of restored land.
- Involved more than 100 students in forest making.
- Exposed over 130 farmers to the Miyawaki Method in partnership with the Women’s Earth Alliance.
- Co-organised the first ever Miyawaki Forest Entrepreneurship Bootcamp.
- Developed a series of tutorials to make the Miyawaki Method accessible in Spanish and Indonesian in partnership with Afforestt.
Going forward Junglo wants to:
- Recover all the lost native forests of the world. Since it can’t do that alone, it seeks to share its knowledge.
- Sow a new generation that remembers how to live in harmony with nature. This is the main force behind “Junglo for schools”, which plants native forests in schools. It has also partnered with Pratisara Bumi Foundation to develop and deliver a teacher training programme that will help educators use the forest in their lessons.