JOIN US TO BUILD BIO-BRIDGES
Together, we’ve been building wildlife corridors to protect endangered creatures and restore rainforests
In 2016, we raised funds to build an astonishing 17.2 million square metres of Bio-Bridges, bringing us closer to our 2020 target of 75 million square metres! Read on to find out more about our Bio-Bridges projects around the world.
From 1st September to 31st October 2017, we will be donating 1.75p from every transaction for sale of The Body Shop products in our stores* and on our websites to World Land Trust. Each donation will fund the restoration of 1sq metre of land in either the Garo Hills, India or the Khe Nuoc Trong forest in Vietnam.” * Participating stores, countries and time periods may vary.
WHY WE'RE BUILDING BRIDGES WITH NATURE
We've been building Bio-Bridges to help protect the rainforest. Bio-Bridges are restored wildlife corridors within damaged landscapes that help endangered species reconnect, enabling them and local communities to live more sustainably. We want you to feel good inside and out, knowing you’re helping improve the livelihoods of local people and help endangered animals like Reggie, the Red-shanked Douc.
WHERE IN THE WORLD
BUILDING BIO-BRIDGES IN INDIA
Together with World Land Trust and Wildlife Trust of India, we're helping to protect endangered elephants at risk from the destruction of their habitat by building a natural corridor of landscape called a bio-bridge.
BUILDING BIO-BRIDGES IN VIETNAM
Here we are helping fund the protection of the Khe Nuoc Trong forest. Funds are also allocated to species surveys and community engagement projects to raise local awareness of the endangered species in particular the Red-shanked Douc like our pal Reggie.
BUILDING BIO-BRIDGES IN INDONESIA
Funds here are supporting the establishment of a Forest Management Unit in Sumatra to help protect the southernmost population of critically endangered orangutans and other endangered species, like the Sumatran Tiger, in the Batang Toru forest.
BUILDING BIO-BRIDGES IN MALAYSIA
In Malaysia we are working with partners to prevent habitat fragmentation, the greatest threat to endangered animals, like the critically endangered Malayan tiger and endangered Asian elephant. We will be helping to allow critically endangered wildlife to roam in a larger protected landscape of Endau Rompin.
OUR CHARITY PARTNERS
Vietnam – World Land Trust
The World Land Trust (WLT) is an international conservation charity, which protects the world’s most biologically important and threatened habitats acre by acre. Since its foundation in 1989, WLT has funded partner organisations around the world to create reserves, and give permanent protection to habitats and wildlife. The Body Shop has a relationship with WLT
dating back many years.
http://www.worldlandtrust.org/
Indonesia – Orangutan Land Trust
The Orangutan Land Trust focuses on supporting the preservation, restoration and protection of forests in the areas where orangutans naturally exist or have existed in the past. The main aim is to ensure that there are safe forest areas set aside for orangutans and other species which accompany them within their habitat to form a
healthy ecosystem
https://www.batangtoru.org/
Malaysia - Wildlife Conservation Society
Wildlife Conservation Society-Malaysia (WCS-MY) is a Country Program of Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), an international conservation charity. WCS's goal is to conserve the world's largest wild places in 15 priority regions, home to more than
50% of the world's biodiversity
http://www.wcsmalaysia.org/