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Roessner Restoration Initiative

Stewardship · Sovereignty · Regeneration

Field work — Roessner Restoration Initiative

RRI runs locally-led conservation in Sumatra, Madagascar, the Chocó, Patagonia, Rwanda, and across a network of humpback whale hotspots. Former loggers becoming rangers in Aceh, smallholder farmers buffering Nyungwe, marine biologists tracking individual whales without extractive research pipelines. The model insists on local ownership.

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Sumatra

The Leuser Ecosystem — last refuge of wild Sumatran tiger, rhino, elephant, and orangutan. Sixteen of our twenty trainee rangers in Aceh were formerly loggers.

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Rwanda

Smallholder farmer cooperatives buffering Volcanoes National Park — turning agricultural pressure into protection at the forest edge.

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WhaleID

A computer vision pipeline for re-identifying individual humpback whales — built with local partners across a network of humpback hotspots.

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Madagascar

Andilambologno's grassroots lemur defenders — stopping deforestation around the last refuge of the blue-eyed black lemur.

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The Chocó

Field surveys of unmapped Chocó cloud forest — one of the last places on the western Andes that hasn't been catalogued.

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Patagonia

Tracking and photographing wild pumas in Torres del Paine, where former hunters now run as guides.

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