Privacy policy

Cookie policy

Terms

Partnership Screening

Whistleblowing

Milkywire logo

Our products

Products

/products

Climate transformation fund

Forests and landscapes

Ocean and seas

Wildlife

Environmental defenders

Curating our funds

Impact funds

Work with us

Contact us

Articles

Frequently asked questions

Company

NavBar Instagram

NavBar Facebook

NavBar youtube

NavBar twitter

Footer Linkedin

Download on the App Store

Download on the Google Play

Get the app

Support the UN Sustainable Development Goals by donating directly to trusted grassroots organizations worldwide. See how your support makes a difference through updates directly from the people in the field. Every donation counts.

Milkywire – Donate now to protect our planet

Milkywire Social Image

Milkywire – Donate now to protect our planet 

Pioneering projects designed to solve the climate crisis.

Climate transformation

Help our impacters restore forests and landscapes

Support locally rooted organizations working to save oceans and seas.

Oceans and seas

Join the fight for our wildlife and biodiversity, from bees to elephants.

Come together to support environmental defenders and their lands

Together with impact partners, we ensure high-quality impact

Get in touch with us to book a demo of our offering

Book a demo

See your sustainability dashboard (for current partners).

Partner portal login

For partners

About us

News & Articles

https://www.milkywire.com/articles

NavBar AppleStore

NavBar googleplay

Future for Nature logo

Future for Nature 2017

Whitley Award logo

Whitley Award 2016

Indonesia Head Facilitator and Mentor Coordinator - WEA Advisory Board Member, Farwiza Farhan.


Women’s Earth Alliance - Advisory Board Member

Gen.t

Gen.T Honour 2017

TEDxTALK Jakarta: Farwiza Farhan, Sustainability in Conservation Activism

TED logo

TEDxTALK: Sustainability in Conservation Activism

BBC News logo

Palm oil: One woman’s fight to save “the last place on earth”

The Guardian logo

“It’s up to us”: why business needs to take a stand on palm oil

The Leuser ecosystem is under immediate threat due to mining, exploitation, and deforestation. Support Farwiza in the fight against these illegal activities.

Farwiza Farhan

new big 5 

Farwiza Farhan: New Big 5 Podcast

Farwiza Farhan: “anger can drive people to take action"

Mongabay logo

Local NGOs: Ecosystem services, not orangutans, key to saving Leuser

China Daily logo

Conservationist is determined to protect her backyard

Indonesian court shuts down legal challenge to Aceh land-use plan

Indonesia 'may blacklist Leonardo DiCaprio over palm oil comments'

vice-og

Is Indonesia’s Leuser Rainforest For Sale?

Inside Indonesia

To Protect and Conserve

Donate to Farwiza - An Award-winning Forest Conservationist

SDG 15 Life on Land

SDG 13 Climate Action

## In short
Farwiza is an award-winning Forest Conservationist taking the fight against illegal palm oil plantations and unsustainable exploitation of the unique Indonesian rainforest and its wildlife. 

**In love with nature**
Growing up, conservation was a passion of mine, the idea of working outdoors and getting to dive fueled my motivation to study marine biology. Eventually, my passion for nature led to an awakening; when you see a deforested landscape, you see a destroyed ecosystem, not a development in progress.

**The value of the forest**
The Leuser Ecosystem in Indonesia is unique. The forest plays a vital role in climate regulation and carbon storage. It’s also the last place on earth where tigers, elephants, rhinos, and orangutans are coexisting together in the wild. But the forest is facing immediate threats caused by people engaging in activities like illegal logging and poaching. 

**Rainforest defender**
My work focuses on the forest, nature and environment of the Aceh province on Sumatra in Indonesia. The core of the work is collaborating closely with local communities to strengthen and empower their role in decision making. We have started working with community and citizen lawsuits since we found that some of the local communities have such broad awareness of environmental issues and are more than willing to act. 

## My organization
HAkA is an Aceh based NGO in Sumatra, Indonesia. Our name stands for Hutan, Alam dan Lingkungan Aceh (Forest, Nature and Environment of Aceh).

HAkA strives for a stronger and healthier Aceh and believe this is created through an empowered civil society whose members contribute to the wellbeing of the province by participating in activities that enhance environmental function to provide clean air, water and earth and to sustain forest, river and ocean. Protecting and restoring all of these elements is vital for community development and will result in a safer, more stable and peaceful Aceh that will benefit generations to come.

HAkA’s vision is the long-term health of Aceh Province – socially, financially and environmentally. The vision is based on scientific evidence of environmental functions and identification of what nature needs to survive and prosper. Scientific assessment of the environment underpins our social and political analyses of how to bring people together to act to enhance as opposed to destroy environmental function. This integrated approach drives campaigns and is evident in the landscape protection and restoration projects. HAkA recognizes that the unique natural processes that drive our landscapes operate over great distances and long periods. This motivates the need to think big when planning for future nature conservation in Aceh, and the appreciation for interconnections with neighbouring ecosystems.

In short
Farwiza is an award-winning Forest Conservationist taking the fight against illegal palm oil plantations and unsustainable exploitation of the unique Indonesian rainforest and its wildlife.

In love with nature
Growing up, conservation was a passion of mine, the idea of working outdoors and getting to dive fueled my motivation to study marine biology. Eventually, my passion for nature led to an awakening; when you see a deforested landscape, you see a destroyed ecosystem, not a development in progress.

The value of the forest
The Leuser Ecosystem in Indonesia is unique. The forest plays a vital role in climate regulation and carbon storage. It’s also the last place on earth where tigers, elephants, rhinos, and orangutans are coexisting together in the wild. But the forest is facing immediate threats caused by people engaging in activities like illegal logging and poaching.
Rainforest defender
My work focuses on the forest, nature and environment of the Aceh province on Sumatra in Indonesia. The core of the work is collaborating closely with local communities to strengthen and empower their role in decision making. We have started working with community and citizen lawsuits since we found that some of the local communities have such broad awareness of environmental issues and are more than willing to act.

My organization
HAkA is an Aceh based NGO in Sumatra, Indonesia. Our name stands for Hutan, Alam dan Lingkungan Aceh (Forest, Nature and Environment of Aceh).

HAkA strives for a stronger and healthier Aceh and believe this is created through an empowered civil society whose members contribute to the wellbeing of the province by participating in activities that enhance environmental function to provide clean air, water and earth and to sustain forest, river and ocean. Protecting and restoring all of these elements is vital for community development and will result in a safer, more stable and peaceful Aceh that will benefit generations to come.

HAkA’s vision is the long-term health of Aceh Province – socially, financially and environmentally. The vision is based on scientific evidence of environmental functions and identification of what nature needs to survive and prosper. Scientific assessment of the environment underpins our social and political analyses of how to bring people together to act to enhance as opposed to destroy environmental function. This integrated approach drives campaigns and is evident in the landscape protection and restoration projects. HAkA recognizes that the unique natural processes that drive our landscapes operate over great distances and long periods. This motivates the need to think big when planning for future nature conservation in Aceh, and the appreciation for interconnections with neighbouring ecosystems.

The Leuser ecosystem is under immediate threat due to mining, exploitation, trees being cut down, and more. Farwiza fights illegal activities through lawsuits, advocacy, and strengthening community voices.

Founder, Director & Forest Conservationist

The Leuser ecosystem is under immediate threat due to mining, exploitation, trees being cut down etc. Farwiza fights illegal activities through lawsuits, advocacy and strengthening community voices.

Donate now to protect forests

This is Farwiza

With your help

Why care