ECO PROJECT WANE (waːnə)

About us

We are Yayasan Pulau Hayati Lestari, a young organisation in Bima, Nusa Tenggara Barat, Indonesia. Our first project Eco Project Wane is a holistic approach to implementing sustainable agriculture, reforestation & conservation programmes and ecological education.

Our aim is to inspire local communities to practice alternative farming methods that will enable them to have a self-sufficient future, where economic development and healthy living are in harmony with nature.

We dedicate our work to nature conservation and the well-being of all people. Together we seek solutions to stop the ongoing destruction and pollution of nature in an effective way and to restore our ecosystems.

meet the team

Our vision

Our vision is to provide ecologically sustainable systems that allow self-sufficient communities to thrive while protecting natural resources, remaining areas of primary rainforest and similar precious ecosystems.

Our mission

Our mission is to work with nature, not against it, to create a self-governing Eco Community that enables collaborative solutions. Our mission includes, but is not limited to, the protection of primary rainforest and the reforestation of degraded areas. Eco Project Wane uses sustainable agriculture and permaculture methods to create synergies between socio-economic development and conservation.

What we’re working on

MAIN TARGET

Our target is to create sustainable buffer zones consisting of secondary forests, food forests and permaculture farms bordering the still existing primary forests around the area of Wane. This should lead to a stable ecosystem which then provides sources of water, a great biodiversity and aims to create a sustainable income for the local population. In order to protect the last remains of primary forest and to reestablish forest ecosystems we are implementing a concept of sustainable agriculture methods related to permaculture and agroforestry as an alternative to the ongoing methods of destructive land exploitation.

CHALLENGES

EXPLOITATION

Deforestation, slash and burn, uncontrolled use of pesticides

MONOCULTURE

Loss of biodiversity, uncontrolled use of chemical fertilisers and pesticides

POLLUTION

Air & water pollution due to lack of waste management and education

EROSION

Floods, erosion, droughts, desertification

SOLUTIONS

To counteract the challenges, we use multiple tools to create protective zones of reforested areas and to reduce the pollution of natural resources. In addition to reforestation, our goal is to integrate sustainable ecosystem based methods of agriculture to meet the existential needs of the people as well as to promote the benefit of nature conservation.