WHAT IS
RIMBA RAYA?
Rimba Raya is a living example
of an economically viable
alternative to deforestation.
Rimba Raya is the largest REDD+ project in the world, in terms of avoided emissions delivered to date, protecting nearly 65,000 hectares of peat swamp forest in Central Kalimantan in Indonesian Borneo and avoiding more than 130 million tonnes of carbon emissions.
Rimba Raya is also the world’s largest privately-funded orangutan sanctuary.
Rimba Raya developes livelihood programmes in surrounding villages (addressing all 17 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals) to provide education, employment and hope for the future.
Rimba Raya is an InfiniteEARTH Project.
Rimba Raya was the first validated REDD+ project – ever – under the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) and helped define the criteria by which all projects are measured.
We were also the first REDD+ forest-carbon project in the world to receive triple-gold validation under the Climate Community and Biodiversity Alliance Standard (CCBA)
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Rimba Raya, nearly the size of Singapore, protects one of the most highly endangered ecosystems in the world.
We form a vital patrolled buffer zone between the ever-encroaching bulldozers of the palm oil industry and the Tanjung Puting National Park, home to one of the last remaining wild populations of orangutans on earth.
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OUR MISSION
At Rimba Raya, we partner with local communities to develop solutions which provide sustainable growth of the economy while protecting and preserving limited and vulnerable natural resources.
We strive for operational exceptionalism across three industry standard measures:
OUR EFFORTS MATTER
Our measurable contribution to emission avoidance
is the equivalent of removing one million cars from the world’s highways every year for the next 30 years.
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Our Blue Planet
Ever wondered why meat is so cheap?
Disgusting that animals are treated this way... So sad that there aren’t laws so this doesn’t happen... 😔
We are all disgusted by what we are seeing here. I would like for the facts to be given as to where this is? How can this be shared for people to avoid purchasing this if we are not told.
the reason why. I started be vegetarian
Dr. Galdikas, one of the famous Leakey Trimates, (keeping great company with Jane Goodall and Diane Fossey), is the founder of Orangutan Foundation International- and our conservation partner!
She Walks With Apes
"My love of orangutans grew out of my curiousity to understand where we came from." Meet Canada's Birutė Galdikas, one o fhe Trimates featured in She Walks With Apes, debuting Friday at 8 pm on CBC: bit.ly/shewalkswithapes
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