{"id":909,"date":"2016-06-05T14:42:54","date_gmt":"2016-06-05T06:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bnmag.www.greenschool.org\/?p=909"},"modified":"2021-06-14T18:25:56","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T10:25:56","slug":"ecotrips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenschool.org\/bali\/bnmag\/life-at-gs\/ecotrips\/","title":{"rendered":"GETTING REAL WITH CONSERVATION"},"content":{"rendered":"
WHO ARE THEY?<\/b>\u00a0Formed on December 2015, Black Forest Green (BFG) is a group of Green School high school<\/a> students, teachers, and volunteers focused on\u00a0ending deforestation.<\/p>\n DEFORESTATION IN INDONESIA\u00a0<\/b>On November 2015, catastrophic forest fires happened in Kalimantan, Indonesia. These fires created a\u00a0massive impact on global climate, as well as affecting more than half a million people locally from the hazardous haze. This has continued to be a concern\u00a0for the Green School community, considering the Kalimantan forest fire is only one of the example of forest fires that happened\u00a0across Indonesia in recent years. So the Black Forest Green team felt it was time to do something real to stop it.<\/p>\n OUR PLAN\u00a0<\/b>Black Forest Green started their charge to end deforestation by creating a green curriculum. The next step in the plan was\u00a0to spread this curriculum in schools across Indonesia to raise awareness among the young generations. Through this program, BFG aimed\u00a0to actively document stories on deforestation\u00a0to inspire new generations to innovate for sustainable solutions.<\/p>\n However they realized it was important to first\u00a0get themselves on the ground, to learn about forest conservation and all of the inspirational work already\u00a0being done locally to protect this precious tropical peatland forests. The team, which included both Balinese students and members of\u00a0Green School Green Generation<\/a>,\u00a0went to both\u00a0Kalimantan and Sumatra on this exploration.<\/p>\n THE JOURNEY TO KALIMANTAN & SUMATRA<\/strong><\/p>\n