Forests have been conveniently believed able to conserve and preserve carbon. It will be implicated the roles and abilities of the stands of tree as carbon sink, helping on mitigating climate change. Now days, deforestation and forest degradation has threatened forests, notably tropical forests so that most of NGOs have been developed and evolved the fast programs in addressing these problems.    

IGaF is one of the NGOs - based co-organization platform which has been initiated massively the environmental movements. An early initiative which has been the tremendous action by IGaF in responding the above problems is the Forest – Based Eduprises.

The initiative has been developed and evolved in February 2013 by IGaF standing members. The objectives of this initiative are to promote forest – based eduprises to children, youth and local communities and to educate them the benefits of managing forests to the source of enterprises.

The kinds of enterprises which are promoted and educated to children, youth and local community are agrosilvopasture and biocomposite.  In this program, there are three targeted objects which are children, youth and local communities. Why did we focus on these people?

1.      Children: children are the indispensable human beings who will be the major actors on changing the environment of being better. From children, the message will be easily embedded in their thoughts and will be spread  to the others children.

2.      Youth: As we know, the future of the country depends on the youth. Youth will be committed as change agents. So the environmental education and program will be in the hands of agent of changes of being better if they do like decent willing.

3.      Local communities: Local communities are the objects of the program because from these people the forest will be maintained well which is in accordance with their local indigenous.

The program has engaged at least 63 students from elementary school of SD N Jambu 2. In other hand, it also has implicated local communities that most of them works as woodworkers, heading the local indigenous of the Jepara?s wood carving.

Here we will elaborate some agenda drafted like the proposal. The agenda was classified into two sections. Of these sections, the most memorable action is by embracing elementary students to be involved in rehabilitating the abandoned lands. The children got together to be in dirty and muddy lands to plant some seedlings and in the hope, they harbored a will to conserve the environment and forest of being sustainable. Another activities was promoting the management of wood waste. The wood wastes were converted usefully into practical goods for furniture. It will be helpful in the future to mitigate the deforestation through using the alternative of wood such as agricultural wastes to substitute solid woods.