Forest Builders

After a long long break I’m excited to be back and bring you one of the stories that inspired me the most since I started Forest Builders podcast. It’s one of these stories that resonate so deeply that you can't help but share them over and over. Chanee ’s story is incredible. He became fascinated by gibbons at a very young age and spent his free time outside school trying to understand them. By t...

In today's episode of Forest Builders , we are interviewing online with  Farwiza Farhan . Farwiza is well known as a conservation hero. You may have seen her on the cover of the Times as the leader of the Time 100 list. She received multiple accolades for her work with HAKA foundation and her dedication to save the Leuser ecosystem : National Geographic Wayfinder Award,  Whitley Award ,...

In today's episode, we are interviewing online with Dimitri Moreels . Dimitri’s entrepreneurship journey started 20 years ago, and took him from Belgium to the Democratic Republic of Congo, where he currently lives. Today, he is the founder and co-CEO of Envirium Life Sciences , a group that encompasses several businesses : Virunga Enzymes, COPAK and Virunga Origins. Dimitri shared his story of bu...

In this episode of Forest Builders , we are listening to  Dr Ryan Merrill , the co-founder of the Global Mangrove Trust (GMT) GMT is a non profit organization based in Singapore whose mission is to enable the preservation and development of mangroves – all around the world. Because you will learn in this episode how mangrove forestry is an effective, yet overlooked, solution against climate c...

In this episode of Forest Builders, we are listening to  Rhett Ayers Butler , the founder of Mongabay. Mongabay is an independent non profit media reporting on conservation, and is basically the top of mind conservation news media. It’s been named by the Time  magazine as one of the best "green websites". Rhett founded Mongabay back in 1999 when he was still a student, out of passio...

In this episode of Forest Builders, we are listening to Jim Thomas . Jim is a zoologist and a conservationist who is devoted to saving the Tree Kangaroos of the Torricelli Mountain Range. From his first encounter with the tree kangaroo when he was working as a zookeeper to building his life in Papua New Guinea for more than 20 years with his wife Jean Thomas , Jim is a movie-like conservation hero...

In today’s episode of Forest Builders, Bastien tells us why Earthworm Foundation choses to see large corporations not only as problems, but also as unmissable parts of the solutions Bastien Sachet is the CEO of Earthworm - a non-profit organization for nature. Earthworm Foundation is on a mission to protect nature by supporting companies and industries to transition towards more sustainable s...

In this third episode of Forest Builders, we are listening to Matt Leggett , the founder of Terratai - a venture builder for nature If your Linkedin feed looks like mine, everyone is an impact investor these days…But you will see that Matt’s story is quite different! In this episode, Matt tells us how he became an impact investor after years working in conservation NGOs such as WWF and Wildli...

In this second episode of Forest Builders , we are listening to Etelle Higonnet , the founder of Coffee Watch. Etelle has been an activist against deforestation for decades, working with Climate Defiance, Mighty Earth, and Greenpeace among others, while in the earlier years of her career she focused on Human Rights advocacy. Her impactful work has been recognized most notably as she received the m...

In this first episode, we are listening to Aviram Rozin , the founder of Sadhana Forest . Sadhana Forest is an ecological community project that started in Auroville (Tamil Nadu, India). Its mission is to transform eroded lands into forests and support the local rural villages. Aviram and his family started Sadhana Forests in 2003, in a barren land in Auroville. Almost 20 years later, the original...