Buy your own tree

Join in / Přidej se (Vlčia) 2.12.2009

2009-12-04T15:55:00.000-08:00

Here is a new short documentary about the natural reserve Vlčia and about the campaign "Buy your own tree". It was premiered on the czech television ČT1 on the 02. december 2009. It´s in slovak and czech with english subtitles. Enjoy!

Join in / Přidej se (Vlčia) - anglické titulky/english subtitles:
http://vimeo.com/7981056

Join in / Přidej se (2.12.2009) /ENG.SUB/ from Waf Press on Vimeo.

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Support the campaign! Save the Forests!

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A month ago we received a big donation from the non-profit organization Fuck for forest. Fuckforforest is a non-profit eco porn organization. FFF is created by people who want to have a exciting experience and a good feeling for protecting nature, having real fun with sex and nudity, not faked, not staged, but impulsive and living. With the help from sexually free people and by showing the beauty of natural love, nudity and sex we wish to direct attention to and collect money for the Earth’s threatened nature. Saving the planet IS sexy!

http://www.fuckforforest.com/

FuckForForest gave 2600€ = 3666$ for our campaign "Buy your own tree".

100€ = 141$ got used in the campaign "Buy your own tree" Here is also a short video with english subtitles, which explains and shows the forest and the campaign.

2500€ = 3.525$ for the overhead expenses like maps, licences, geografical measurements, geodesist, telemeter and so on which is necessary to legaly buy these forests. To help the organization to go forward and continue their work.

We gratefully thank ALL donors and helpers, Tommy and Leona, and all activists and supporters of FFF!

Here is an article on their web page about us:
http://www.fuckforforest.com/news/News-463

Short film about the Wolf Reserve

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czech and slovak language - with english subtitles - 5:53 min.
It was made by the czech television "ČT1". It appeared in the show OBJEKTIV on 28. 12. 2008
Direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9RULxHyRxQ

Campaign promo video - "Buy your own tree"

2009-01-14T18:15:00.000-08:00

Slovak language - with english subtitles - 0:40 sec.
Direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiZGJjapbh4

How to give a tree ?

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Please send us US$ 65, EUR 50 or GBP 45 (or whatever you can afford) in cheque to our mailing address. In the case you want to give the tree as a present, please include, or email us the name and the address of the person. We will send you or to the person a thanks letter with a sticker and a certificate of symbolic owner.

We thank in advance all who, at Christmas time and other holidays, also think of trees, plants, animals and other forest beings.

Our Address:

WOLF Forest Protection Movement
c.d. 27, 082 13 Tulcik, Slovakia
Tel/fax: +421-51-7789488
E-mail: dasa@wolf.sk

From GB...

Or in Great Britain you can send a cheque or postal order, made payable to The Wolf Society of Great Britain, to:

The Wolf Society of Great Britain
2 Blackrod Cottages
Compton Durville
South Petherton
Somerset, TA13 5EX
Great Britain.

For further information contact:

WOLF Forest Protection Movement
Address: c.d. 27, 082 13 Tulcik, Slovakia
Tel/fax: +421-51-7789488
E-mail: alfa@wolf.sk
http://www.wolf.sk/en/en-home

The Wolf Private Nature Reserve

2009-01-14T17:47:00.000-08:00

The Wolf Private Nature Reserve has an area of 21.24 hectares and is situated in Prešov region, in the Čergov Mountains, within the cadastre of the community Olejníkov, in the spring area of the Ľutinka stream. WOLF has aquired the forest from a private landowner. The amount that was necessary for buying the forest - 3.2 million Slovak crowns, was raised within the scope of the fundraising campaign Buy your own tree by help of supporters from 19 countries from all over the world. WOLF has been the owner of the forest since 1998 with no human interventions to be taken in this forest ever since. This means no logging, no planting of trees, no removing of dead trees and no hunting in this forest. The forest is located in the end of the Jarabinčík Valley in the micro river basin Ľutinka. The geological basement is Paleocene flysch. Beech and fir prevail in the lower parts of the forest, whereas it's a beech-maple forest that covers the slopes close to the mountain ridge, with trees of the dwarf growth in the uppermost parts of the valley. The predominant tree species are beech, sycamore maple and fir, with scattered Norway maple, elm, birch and the rare Silesian willow. Just below the ridge also rowan occurs. According to the measurements of an expert, the number of trees with a diameter of more than 70mm/30in totals up to 11 548. Besides the typical accompanying species of beech, the undergrowth also presents perennial honesty, yellow archangel, dog's mercury, herb Robert and four fern species. The protected species growing here include Martagon lily, the endangered elder-flowered orchid and the ridge slopes are adorned by alpine sow thistle, white false helleborne and alpine leek. The birds you can hear and see in the Wolf Reserve include the chaffinch, robin, blackbird, song thrush, blackcap, woodcock, chiffchaff, wood warbler, and hollow nesters like nuthatch, collared flycatcher, black woodpecker and other woodpeckers and titmice. Four owl species occur here: the Ural owl, tawny owl, boreal owl and pygmy owl. Golden eagle and lesser spotted eagle fly above the meadow that is included in the reserve. The ungulates that occur here commonly are the roe deer, red deer and wild boar, the predators occurring in this area are wolves, lynx and one brown bear.

In order to guarantee official protection of the area under the act on nature and landscape protection, we have prepared a proposal for the designation of the Wolf Private Nature Reserve, which was submitted to the District Office of Prešov in 1999. After a period of endless hazing from the part of the Environmental Department, the proposal was approved first after the involvement of our attorney and in April 2002 the agreement on declaration of the reserve was prepared. This however, even after repeated appeals, was not signed by Ing. Polačko, the chairman of the District Office, who thus blocked the whole declaration process. Therefore in cooperation with a team of lawyers we came up with a series of measures that ended up in bringing a suit at the District Court in Prešov in March 2003. In that suit we demanded that the Region District Office in Prešov would end the holdups and would enter with us in the agreement on declaration of the reserve. On October 17th, 2003, the District Court ruled in favor of WOLF and obliged the District Office in Prešov to enter with us in the agreement under the threat of a fine in amounts of hundred thousands of crowns (approx. 3,300 US$) repeatedly. Since the public administration went through a reform in January 2004, the whole case was passed on to the newly established District Environmental Office in Prešov. Its chairman has entered with us, as was set forth by the ruling, in the agreement on declaration of the Wolf Private Nature Reserve. Subsequently, after final remarks of the Ministry of Environment, the Office issued the binding regulation which was published in the Government's white paper with date of effect as of April 1st 2004. This means that after almost five years, to be precise after 1722 days, we have finally lived to see that the state has enabled us to protect, pursuant to the law, the forest that we - the citizens - had protected voluntarily already from 1997.

The fundraising campaign Buy your own tree still goes on now for the reserve's enlargement.

Racking your brain over what to give your friends or family ?

Do you want to give something beautiful and unusual for a birthday, Valentine's Day, wedding or just out of love?

If so, you can join those who are saving a piece of wilderness in the Eastern Slovakia by symbolically buying a tree.

One such tree costs 1000 Slovak Crowns, which is US$ 35, EUR 30 or GBP 20 and the buyer contributes to the protection of forest stands adjacent to the Wolf Private Nature Reserve in the Čergov Mountains which are to enlarge the reserve. The tree, once bought, has the good fortune that it will remain in the forest and won't be taken away even after its death.

We have a great pleasure to inform, especially those who have already joined the Buy Your Own Tree campaign, that on February 8th, 2002 we have raised the necessary amount of 3.2 million Slovak Crowns for the protection of the 21 hectares of the natural beech-fir forest. The last donation in form of symbolic purchases of a tree came from Ms. Caroline Cox, Oregon. A rarity among the February contributions was the gift of a man from Slovakia, who bought two trees for his twin daughters for their 2nd birthday that they had precisely on February 2nd, 2002.

We kindly thank to all who have contributed or helped otherwise.