rima Hello Forest Friends, does anybody notice that these three Forest Friends blogs are turned to be one year old cool blogs? I just realized it when I wrote about Lena's birthday. It reminds me that, at our first Forest Friends day, Lena post something about her birthday. Happy first anniversary, Forest Friends! Hope there will be more and more people get influenced by this project. Cheers..! :D

rima Happy belated birthday to you, Lena. I really forgot to post a birthday news of yours. I really wish you all the best...! Here it is the elephant birthday cake for you as a present from Indonesia. Hope you enjoy it! :)

rima Hello tiger lovers....! We have a very good news for you. I and Lena are very lucky to see some tiger footprints in a coast of Nilo River, Tesso Nilo National Park, Indonesia. Officer said that this is probably 1 week old footprints. Wow, we're very happy to see that. Cheers :D

rima Hi Lena and Forest Friends. This is Imbo, the supercute elephant we saw in Flying Squad Camp in Tesso Nilo National Park. Imbo is 2 months old, and he really likes to play. May be his favorite one is "sitting on a tire". You look so cute in the tire, Imbo. Please stay health and cute. I know someday you will be the strongest one. Cheers :D

rima Hallo Lena. Danke for the "oleh-oleh". I really like it, especially the Ritter Sport chocolate... so soft and lecker..! Today I introduce Tiger Bond to Rile. Rile is really happy to get a new friend from Germany, just like me who happy to see you. See you Lena :) PS: Please say my hello to Fang :D

rima Hallo Forest Friends.... Do you want to know how interesting Forest Friends adventure is in Tesso Nilo? Please check these Lena's writing: http://www.bit.ly/hutLku (Day 1), http://www.bit.ly/hXHhjp (Day 2), http://www.bit.ly/eLewJn (Day 3), http://www.bit.ly/huJkiq (Day 4), http://www.bit.ly/e6ZfF3 (Day 5), and http://www.bit.ly/e9Hdet (Day 6). We hope you enjoy and like it! Cheers :D

rima Hallo hallo Forest Friend fans, how are you? Today I, Lena, and WWF team had arrived in Pekanbaru. Pekanbaru is the capital city of Riau Province in Indonesia. This noon we will go to Tesso Nilo and start our fun trip, and today we watch the presentation from WWF Pekanbaru about Tesso Nilo, the forest, the elephants, the tigers, and all the things exist in Tesso Nilo. It is said to know that Riau Province had lost 65% of its forest. We hope after our planting, Riau forest will be better, and the animals inside the forest would be sustain. Cheers :D

rima Halo Forest Friend. Yesterday is the happiest day of Forest Friend Program for me, because Lena and Germany team came to Indonesia. We have so many things to do in Tesso Nilo National Park: planting trees, meet the baby elephant, trekking the tiger trail, and other interesting things. Yesterday, I and Lena also met Mia and Yangki, another forest friend participants. We shared so many stories, and we had a dinner together. It's so exciting...! I hope we can see each other next time, and share more experience of ours. We'll be miss you, Mia and Yangki :)

LeLe Good Evening Rima & Forest-Friends around the globe! I had my last injection 12 hours ago, I finished packing 1 hour ago ( that has been really, really hard work:): Now, I'm very well prepared for the journey to Indonesia starting tomorrow! I'm looking forward to everything except from the moscitos! I'm going to report about my expierences in Indonesia, the rainforest & the 63.780 WWF Jugend trees= your trees(!) in Tesso Nilo on the hompage of the WWF Jugend. See you all & see you Rima!!! Your Lena (who is hoping that she will be able to sleep- she's a bit nervous:)

rima Guten morgen, Lena. Do you know that there are 360 species of plants, 107 species of birds, 23 species of mammals, 3 species of primates, 50 species of fishes, 15 species of reptiles, and 18 species of amphibians in a hectar of Tesso Nilo National Park? That's an amazing fact of Tesso Nilo :D Below, I attach a very cute sun bear photo. Btw, today I will pack my stuffs, and prepare a surprise present for you. See you, Lena :D

LeLe Hi Rima & Forest-Friends-Fans! Just 2 more nights left until we're leaving Germany!! Today, the whole tour group (= the 2 journalists Mareike and David, the photographer Klaus, Ulrike from WWF Germany and me) had a telephone conference to learn to know each other and to talk about the upcoming trip - that was really nice! I'm so happy that I have to share some information about the Indonesian forest with all of you: In the forests of Sumatra, Borneo & Co, you can find more than 10% of the world's flowering plant species, 12% of all mammal species and 17% of all bird species- that's amazing, isn't it? .....and makes clear why it is so important to protect these forests! Cheers, Your Lena (who can't wait to start the big adventure:)

LeLe HelloHello Rima! Today, I've read an interesting book about Indonesia and the different people living there- that's so interesting!! I didn't know before that the meat of dogs is a delicacy in some parts of Indonesia or that there is a special expression for the loving pinching of cute children: 'gemes'. Besides, I've used some minutes of this day to learn to say: Saya tidur sekarang - I'm going to sleep now:) Good night, I'm going to be back tomorrow! Your Lena

rima Hi Lena and Forest Friend Fans. Do you know that today is the World Forestry Day? World Forestry Day on 21 March allows us to reflect on the many and varied benefits of forests to communities around the world. One of the biggest of these is provide us so much oxygen and clean water. I think both of these are the most important things in our life. Should we bet our life by destroying too much forest? Happy World Forestry Day...! Cheers :D (the picture below is the Bornean Rainforest, taken from http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jan/29/moths-climate-change-tropics)

LeLe But now:) I've got a fantastic plan! I made a packing-list so that nothing should go wrong now...AH! (the nice sound when having a flash of genius:) And thanks for reminding me of bringing a box for the honey- I'm going to do that - I love honey! Only 5 days left until we are leaving (on Saturday morning) - amazing! I'm going to write more about my further preparations! Cheers,, Your Lena (sososo much looking forward to see you)

LeLe Hi Rima! I'm fine, thank you:) Hope you too!! I'm really busy with my preparations: I bought a nice-looking, blue-coloured & comfortable-portable backpack to carry all my things to Tesso Nilo. Firstly, I've been in desperation- I couldn't decide what to put in my backpack! Ahahaha.....

rima Hallo hallo, Lena. Wie geht es dir? Ich hoffe, sie immer fein. How about your preparation to go to Indonesia? Please, don't forget to bring your empty lunch boxes with you to Tesso Nilo, or you would be regret to not to bring the best quality of forest honey in the world. This is a very small part of the very big honey bee nest, which farmer took from the Sialang Trees. In a night, a farmer can collect 30-40 big nests! Then you can imagine, how many honey bees are and how many wild flowers are in Tesso Nilo. Cheers... *Buzz... buzz... the honey bees are waiting for you* :D

rima Hi Lena, how are you? Several days ago, the green club of my university invite me to join a simple talk show about Sustainable Development. The speakers are Dana Vogel and Christina Deibl, German students of Sustainable Resource Management of Technische Universitaet Muenchen. I learnt a lot of interesting things from them. At the end of the talk show, they gave me a pack of Ritter SPORT chocolate. Das ist so lecker...! Yummy.. :D

LeLe Hello Forest-Friends-Fans! Some days ago, Lisa, a female elephant at Flying Squad Camp in Tesso Nilo National Park on Sumatra gave birth to this cute male calv. I hope that Rima & me are going to meet these elephants when being in Tesso Nilo at the end of this month. Cheers, Your Lena

LeLe Good Morning Rima! It's the 24th Febuary, 9.20h right now, and there are exactly 1.936.217 hectares of forest lost since the 1st January 2011!! In this moment!! That's so hard to believe, but it's simply the truth. The WWF installed a huge 'clock' in the main train station of Berlin which doesn't show what time it is but how much forest has been lost sice the beginning of the year. You can also see it herehttp://www.wwf-jugend.de/entdecken/. I think that's a fantastic idea because we all have to be confronted with the grim fact that, every minute(!), we loose rainforest of the siece of 35 football fields as often as possible. Cheers, Your Lena

rima Hi Lena.... Happy belated valentine's day. I send you box of special chocolate from Indonesia. I said it special, because the box is made from bamboo, so it won't trash our Eath too much. Though the taste of these chocolate are no too great, I choose them because of its unique and green packaging. I hope we can always give aour love to all people around us, and of course to our Earth :D. Cheers, Rima.