About.
Forestwise and the Fat Forest Foundation are dedicated to creating #RainforestValue in order to sustain the rainforests of Borneo.

By helping to maintain the wild rainforest, Forestwise also conserves wildlife, generates employment and income for local inhabitants, and safeguards fresh water, fresh air and fertile soils. They increase the economic value of the remaining forest, and give forest communities a sound incentive for continuing to protect it.

Why.

In 2013, personal friends Dirk-Jan Oudshoorn and Alexandra Vosmaer decided to move to Indonesia, witnessing at first hand the destruction caused by massive deforestation in Borneo.

In 2018, Dirk-Jan co-founded a social enterprise, Forestwise, to increase the economic value of the remaining rainforest and to empower the local inhabitants to protect the remaining rainforest. In 2020, Alexandra launched the skincare brand Fat Forest, that uses Forestwise ingredients, to create clean skincare that protects your skin, as well as the rainforest.

And in 2022 Alexandra initiated the Fat Forest Foundation, to do more for the farmers. With the support of Gaudí Real Estate B.V., the foundation was able to establish a training center for sustainable agriculture in the city of Sintang (appropriately named Pondok Gaudí). So far, more than 100 male and female farmers have been trained in the training center. The foundation also supports the replanting of endangered endemic tree species so they don't go extinct, as well as supporting farmers to obtain land certificates, so that they legally own their ancestor's land and can continue to protect it.