A Little Wild: A Rewilding Project


EB Impact, in partnership with A Little Wild, plans to transform a land parcel in Johor, Malaysia. Converting a palm oil plantation into an educational agroforest.
EB Impact, in partnership with A Little Wild, plans to transform a land parcel in Johor, Malaysia. Converting a palm oil plantation into an educational agroforest.
A Little Wild (ALW) was started in 2020 by Wee Jun Ning. This project is the result of friends from Singapore and Malaysia coming together after realizing the urgency for a productive, ecologically-beneficial demonstration site. –
Jun Ning is based in Singapore while the rest of the team are in Johor. Produce harvested will be sold within 50km of the farm – in Johor and Singapore.
Are our forests carbon sinks or carbon sources?
Globally, forests are changing from carbon sinks to carbon emitters.
Of the world’s three largest tropical rainforests, only the Congo has enough standing forest left to remain a strong net carbon sink. The Amazon teeters on the brink while Southeast Asia has become a net emitter. Protecting the remaining forests in all three regions is critical to mitigating climate change. Reforestation and agroforestry projects such as ALW, when carried out at scale, can help to reverse the process and hopefully transform emitters back to sinks for storage. Converting cleared, degraded land or monoculture palm into standing forests can thus improve their carbon absorption potential.
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A small team at ALW plans to transform a 138 acre land parcel in Johor, Malaysia that has been a palm oil plantation since the 1980s, into an educational agroforest.
ALW plans to create a 60-acre fruit and vegetable syntropic agroforest while rewilding at least 40 acres in a similar syntropic fashion, demonstrating on a commercial scale that such a transformation is financially viable.
The purpose of the project is to demonstrate that farming while regenerating nature can work financially.
EB Impact will support ALW in their rewilding efforts, seeking to reintroduce native trees and biodiversity into the area.
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To accelerate the pace of the rewilding project, we will need support in a few areas. These areas include:
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