Yayasan Puge Figo is an ecology-focused foundation established in 2014 in Tanawolo, located in Nginamanu Village, Wolomeze District, Ngada Regency on Flores Island. The organization provides training, field mentoring, and price guarantees to farmers, with their vanilla farming initiatives since October 2023 offering farmers a better future through sustained support and improved agricultural practices.
Cœur de Forêt is dedicated to reforestation and forest preservation since 2005, operating both in France and internationally. The organization promotes sustainable forest management that benefits both nature and local communities, aiming to foster harmony between humans and forests. The association has planted over 4 000,000 trees on its projects since creation, while currently operating in five countries including Bolivia, Madagascar, Indonesia, and France to advance reforestation and economic development.
Project story
On the island of Flores in Indonesia, Yayasan Puge Figo is implementing a project to preserve tropical dry forests, an ecosystem that is both rare and highly threatened, now representing only 2% of global forest cover. These forests host exceptional biodiversity, including several endemic species that are critically endangered, such as the Flores hawk-eagle and the sulphur-crested cockatoo.
Subjected to strong human pressure, particularly from the use of fire and agricultural expansion, these forests are experiencing rapid degradation. To address this, the project focuses on conserving these natural environments through assisted natural regeneration, promoting the ecological resilience of forests and their restoration based on existing vegetation dynamics.
The initiative also includes securing community forest areas with high ecological value, combined with awareness-raising activities for local communities about the importance of these ecosystems. The objective is to ensure their long-term integrity while supporting the transmission of traditional ecological knowledge.
Rooted in an ecosystem-based approach, this project responds to the challenges of biodiversity conservation, fire risk reduction, and adaptation to climate change in a particularly vulnerable region.
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Protection of the ecosystem in Flores's island
Yayasan Puge Figo is an ecology-focused foundation established in 2014 in Tanawolo, located in Nginamanu Village, Wolomeze District, Ngada Regency on Flores Island. The organization provides training, field mentoring, and price guarantees to farmers, with their vanilla farming initiatives since October 2023 offering farmers a better future through sustained support and improved agricultural practices.
Cœur de Forêt is dedicated to reforestation and forest preservation since 2005, operating both in France and internationally. The organization promotes sustainable forest management that benefits both nature and local communities, aiming to foster harmony between humans and forests. The association has planted over 4 000,000 trees on its projects since creation, while currently operating in five countries including Bolivia, Madagascar, Indonesia, and France to advance reforestation and economic development.
Project story
On the island of Flores in Indonesia, Yayasan Puge Figo is implementing a project to preserve tropical dry forests, an ecosystem that is both rare and highly threatened, now representing only 2% of global forest cover. These forests host exceptional biodiversity, including several endemic species that are critically endangered, such as the Flores hawk-eagle and the sulphur-crested cockatoo.
Subjected to strong human pressure, particularly from the use of fire and agricultural expansion, these forests are experiencing rapid degradation. To address this, the project focuses on conserving these natural environments through assisted natural regeneration, promoting the ecological resilience of forests and their restoration based on existing vegetation dynamics.
The initiative also includes securing community forest areas with high ecological value, combined with awareness-raising activities for local communities about the importance of these ecosystems. The objective is to ensure their long-term integrity while supporting the transmission of traditional ecological knowledge.
Rooted in an ecosystem-based approach, this project responds to the challenges of biodiversity conservation, fire risk reduction, and adaptation to climate change in a particularly vulnerable region.
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Location
Indonesia
Round 3
Jul 1-21, 2026
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