How to restore a Rainforest: Willie Smits

1. - Why did he start working to save the Rainforest?

Because an experience with orangutans
2. - What is Samboja Lestari?
It was the poorest district a biological dessert but 4 year letter it turns to a green
blop with people and animals
3. - In which area of the world is Samboja Lestari?
In Indonesia
4. - How many jobs has he created with his project?
Tree thousand people 3.000
5. - How many species are there now in this area?
Over a thousand 1,000 spicies
6. - Why did they plant Bamboos for?
Why didnt they plant them from the beginning? They dindt plat it at the begging
because it could be very high risk of losing everything because the bamboo is
very fire susceptible, so they plant it later using it as a filter water that provides de
raw production
7. - Name some solutions that Integration:
Agroforestry provides.
Orangutans get heathy food, it reduce the growing expeditures and spreed up
ecosystem regeneration, safe some money
8. - Explain what are the underground coal fires?
Are cracks in the soil that allow oxygen to reach the smouldering layers and
causes fires forest
9. - How does the Rainforest affect the sea?
Because these grasslands, once they start burning they lose the last bit of ash
and nutrients to the first rainfall going to the sea killing off the coral reefs there.
10. - Why did they plant Sugar palms around the affected area?
they created a ring of sugar palms around the rea due they are fire-resistant
,flood resistant and they also provide a lot of income for local people.
11. - How many trees did they plant a day?

A thousand 1,000
12. - The sugar palms provide income for how many families?
648 familys
13. - Three years later, how many species of birds are living there?
137 species of birds
14. - How many more clouds are there in the zone?
There are 11.2% more clouds
15. - Name 3 benefits that came out from this project.
-create new jobs
-families can sell part of the fruits to the orangutan project
-get building material for houses