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About The Rainforest Project |
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The Rainforest Project, TRP, is a European-based foundation dedicated to the
preservation of the world's forests registered at the Amsterdam Chamber of
Commerce. TRP was founded in 1993 by a number of likeminded individuals with a
science background, who wanted to make a difference in promoting nature
conservation.
The foundation recruits participants from universities,
forestry departments, and grass-roots groups in areas where TRP has projects.
TRP is committed to people-based nature conservation and merges research,
economic development, and a participatory approach to ensure the input of local
people.
 Our primary goals are:
- To initiate, support and promote tropical forest conservation through
sustainable use of forest products.
- To enlist structural support for
protection, management, and training in forest conservation, in order to
encourage long-term self-reliance.
- To encourage the implementation of
environmentally sound policy to strengthen nature conservation efforts and
long-term feasibility of people-based nature conservation.
The foundation
will design, coordinate and administer projects and will fundraise to support
these projects. TRP will take a pragmatic approach in dealing with the political
and socio-economic realities in project countries.
TRP is currently
working in Vietnam with on our Agarwood project, and is involved in preparations
to establish a Natural History Museum in Ho Chi Minh City.
TRP has
conducted surveys in numerous Asian countries among others, Indonesia, Lao PDR,
and Bhutan. TRP is planning a number of other projects in SE Asian
countries.
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