In a major new development of the Community Carbon Link, two local businesses and the community interest company, Primate Handshake.Org, have put up the funds to secure a 10 acre plot of Kenyan forest on behalf of the whole community here in Lampeter. Any resident, school or business in the area can now make their own direct contribution to the project by sponsoring 200 square metres of ‘Lampeter’s Tropical Forest in Bore’ for £10.

With this ‘Community Carbon Forest Reserve’, Lampeter is now the first town in Wales and possibly in the world to be taking responsibility as a community for its share in creating climate change and slowing tropical deforestation.

You can sponsor your 200 square metres here and once we have identified your plot and logged its GPS co-ordinates, we will send you this info so you can view the location on Google Earth.

Tropical forest is immensely important for cooling the planet but it is also a critical ecosystem in terms of bio-diversity. Amongst other animals on the reserve are two troops of Colobus Monkey and like all non-human Primates, they need all the help they can get.  Learn more about the different ways that you can help endangered African Primates here.