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| Elias Kimaru (WWF project executive) and Sururu Lagiza from the Kaya Muhaka group within the Kaya sacred forest, hold up the Size of Wales logo |
BBC, 17 September 2011, People in Wales are doing their bit to help preserve rainforests in east Africa from deforestation.
Donations are funding a raft of projects in a wider campaign to save an area of forest equivalent to Wales - in a campaign called Size of Wales.
The campaign is driven by Cardiff-based charity The Waterloo Foundation.
Two representatives have visited projects started by WWF Cymru to defend trees from illegal logging and fight for land ownership rights for locals.
The WWF project area extends through Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania and Mozambique, as well as some offshore islands.
The Size of Wales scheme is being funded via The Waterloo Foundation, which donates grants to organisations in the UK and worldwide, and runs a forests programme targeted at avoiding deforestation in tropical areas.
Steph Stares and Nia Sterling from the foundation have returned from visiting the area and WWF Cymru projects in the Kwale district in Kenya. Read More
(Source : BBC)
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