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Khiri Travel donates to Cambodia reforestation
Khiri Travel’s charitable arm Khiri Reach has funded reforestation work in Cambodia.
It has donated US$15,000 to the One Million Tree reforestation project in Koh Kong and Sihanoukville provinces.
The charity has pledged to support the project for at least three years
The project, run by Wildlife Alliance, is planting hundreds of thousands of tree saplings to restore forest areas that were burned or cleared by land grabbers and loggers.
The aim is to reforest the cleared areas so that biodiversity and habitat can recover.
The Southern Cardamom mountains is home to the world’s last wild, unfragmented Asian elephant corridor.
The replanted saplings on the illegally cleared land will then be protected and maintained by Wildlife Alliance for a minimum of five years.
To date, the project has reforested 4.2 million square metres of cleared land in Koh Kong and Sihanoukville provinces.
The new donation from Khiri Reach is helping the nursery expand capacity from 190,000 saplings to 265,000, all under shade nets with irrigation to help them grow.
“The Million Tree project is exactly the kind of initiative that Khiri Reach likes to contribute to,” said Willem Niemeijer, Chairman of Khiri Reach and founder of Khiri Travel.
“It is run with the local community, under professional supervision and with clear metrics and goals.”
Khiri Reach, in turn, raised its donation from Khiri Travel guests who wanted to contribute to a carbon offset, nature regeneration initiative.
Suwanna Gauntlett, founder and CEO of Wildlife Alliance said: “We are very grateful for Khiri Reach’s donation and ongoing support. We also invite other potential donors to follow the Khiri example.”
Wildlife Alliance hires local community workers in both the nursery at Chi Phat and at the reforestation sites.
The One Million Tree nursery cultivates 18 species of native rainforest tree saplings.
Khiri Reach is also supporting reforestation projects in Siem Reap in Cambodia and Chiang Rai, northern Thailand. It also contributes to a seagrass initiative in Sri Lanka.
Niemeijer added: “With the Khiri Reach regenerative travel fund, we invite Khiri Travel customers and partners to support these projects with each booking that they make.” .
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