About Us

We are a design activist network of technologists, designers, finance specialists & policy advisors.

We self-organised to generate public, financial and political support for the work of the British tropical ecologist and disruptive innovator Mike Hands in the world’s tropical rainforests.

The social movement will link designers, technologists, finance specialists and policy advisors to subsistence farmers in the humid tropics to engineer a transition to a world underpinned by natural security, peace and prosperity.

What We Do

We are building a social movement to reverse rainforest deforestation by crowdsourcing an ‘Army of Davids’ from the 125 million farmers living in the rainforests of Central America.

PRESERVATION

To preserve the rainforests for future generations and help stabilise the global climate by cutting carbon emissions.

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REGENERATION

To regenerate the regional economies of the humid tropics to forestall political instability and catastrophic mass migration from the Global South.

LIBERATION

To liberate huge numbers of people from poverty and dangerous insecurity to live dignified, peaceful and prosperous lives in harmony with the natural world.

ALT FOREST BRIEFING

The bio-shield will extend across the following countries:

KEY:

Bold: Projects underway
Asterisk*: Trials begun in conjunction with collaboration partners.

CENTRAL AMERICA

Honduras
Belize*
Guatemala*
Nicaragua*
Panama

CARIBBEAN

Haiti

SOUTH AMERICA

Bolivia
Brazil
Colombia
Ecuador
Peru* (collaborator Cool Earth)
Venezuela
French Guiana

AFRICA

Congo*(collaborators Kew & MPD Mining)
Benin
Burundi
Cameroon
CAR
DRC
Gabon
Ghana
Guinea-Bisseau
Ivory Coast
Liberia
Nigeria
Rwanda
Togo
Uganda
Madagascar*