Cafe Sci: Rooting for Rainforests with Samantha Salt

Rooting for Rainforests: how local communities are paving the way for conservation in Borneo | Samantha Salt

With climate change raising its ugly head through extreme weather events and wildfires all around the world, and with our rainforests being lost at an alarming rate, there's never been a more important time to find long-lasting solutions for people and planet. Borneo's rainforests are special; they are the only place in the world home to the Critically Endangered Bornean orangutan and its very deep peat deposits make it one of the largest land-based carbon stores on Earth. What happens in Borneo impacts us all.

At the Borneo Nature Foundation, we have powerful, local and grass-roots solutions for this global problem. We work with a range of vital stakeholders from the National Park and the government to local communities and school children to understand, restore and protect the rainforest for future generations. 

Our projects have been globally recognised, having received the Global Warming Mitigation Project's Keeling Curve Prize (2020), the World Economic Forum's Trillion Trees Challenge and People's Choice Award (2020), and the iF Design Social Impact Prize (2022). Come along to this talk to learn about the magic of Borneo, the world-leading ways we're supporting and empowering local people to be global conservation leaders, and how you can be a part of it.   

Sam is Borneo Nature Foundation's Senior Engagement Officer, working to raise international awareness of the charity's on-the-ground conservation projects in Indonesia. Having spent time in the rainforest working directly with the project teams, she has first-hand experience and many stories to tell. Prior to working at the Borneo Nature Foundation, Sam studied her master's and bachelor's degrees in conservation at the University of Exeter's Penryn campus here in Cornwall.

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