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Together with all participating Creators, our guests and your overwhelming support, we were able to protect more than 100,000 square meters of rainforest forever! We - Felix, Theresa, Rick and Jacob - are extremely grateful and proud to have already achieved so much for our environment with you!
On November 17, 2024, we rocked "YouTopia" with some of Germany's most influential creators - a six-hour donation live stream on YouTube and Twitch with exciting games and varied challenges. We welcomed guests from the media and cultural sectors, entertained thousands of viewers across 10 channels, and opened the "Clearcut" hairdressing salon to send a strong signal against deforestation in the rainforest.
Many thanks also go to the YouTopia partners such as MediaMarktSaturn, Ben & Jerry's, Ortlieb and many more!
Of course, our YouTopia forest is still growing - and you can still become a part of it!
What was it all about? - The event took place under the motto "Clearcut Against Clearcut" - a concept in which creators opened a hair salon and cut the hair of their community in exchange for voluntary donations. The six-hour live stream was accompanied by exciting talks, as well as a variety of challenges and shows.
Who? - The four YouTopia hosts Jacob Beautemps ("Breaking Lab"), Felix Michels ("Tomatolix"), Rick Azas and Theresa Kirchner were supported by prominent guests, including creators such as Nadine Breaty, Alicia Joe, Rewinside, Starletnova, Ronny Berger, HeyMoritz, Regina Hixt, Simon Will, Adrian Amaru, Noel Dederichs, Yvonne Pferrer & Jeremy Grube, Marie von Wurzelwerk, Kim 'freiraumreh' Adam, Klein aber Hannah, Doctor Whatson, Lydia Benecke, and OttoBulletproof, as well as strong voices for nature conservation such as Louisa Schneider, Micha Fritz (Co-Founder Viva con Agua), Fabian Kahl (known from "Bares für Rares"/ZDF), Dr. Eckart von Hirschhausen (science journalist and founder of the Healthy Earth - Healthy People Foundation), Tobias and Johanna Wohlleben (Wohllebens Waldakademie), Jean-Paul Laue (klima&so), and Sacha Hübner (Acker.co).
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All of these Creators are working together to protect ancient ecosystems and wilderness areas. Join your favorite Creator and become part of the movement!
"Let's make a difference together, because only together can we make a difference and leave a mark."
Protect the rainforest together with Jacob now!
"Let's protect the last remaining wilderness areas together now. Together we can ensure that future generations can also live with these ecologically valuable and biomass-rich rainforests."
Protect forests with Felix now!
"Let's make a change together to protect the rainforest so that future generations can also experience a sustainable future."
"It is our responsibility to protect the rainforests - for the future of our world and biodiversity. The rainforests are the green lungs of the planet and protect the climate. If we preserve them, we secure the future for everyone!"
Immediately after your donation, you will receive a personalized certificate about the piece of wilderness you have protected - with the exact geocoordinates. It also makes a great gift!
We at Wilderness International have a great vision: to protect the last real wilderness areas in our world forever!
To achieve this, we buy ecologically valuable and acutely threatened primeval forest areas by land registry entry in order to protect them in a legally secure, permanent and transparent manner. The purchases are refinanced by your donations and protected in the long term.
Select the size of the forest area you want to protect in the donation form.
Enter your details in the form to ensure that you receive all the information and the donation receipt.
Now you can add your name or the name of the person receiving the gift to the certificate. If you want, you can also add an occasion.
You can download the certificate with the geocoordinates of the protected area directly after payment. It will also be sent to you by e-mail, together with a link that shows you your personal protected area down to the square meter.
Felix has found a whale bone that was washed up on the beach.
Felix and Jacob build an underwater camera with marine biologist Tyra Bain.
Theresa, Rick, Jacob and Felix explore the temperate rainforest.
An expedition into the mystical raised bogs in our protected areas.
Rick even jumped into the bog for one of his challenges!
Our camp on the beach of Porcher Island, Western Canada.
Our camp is guarded by a bald eagle in its eyrie.
Felix, Theresa and Rick see for themselves what will happen if we don't protect the temperate rainforest in Canada.
Rick does a handstand to show how big some of the deforested jungle trees were.
It's incredible how many people are coming together again under the YouTopia umbrella. The approach of "making a difference together" leaves its mark and shows that we can make a difference together. Because "together instead of against each other" motivates and ensures that many people identify with our topics. It is important to remember that none of us is perfect, not even when it comes to sustainability. But we can all take important, small steps and achieve great things together. We need this positive approach more than ever before.
Jacob Beautemps
Wilderness ambassador, YouTopia inventor and science creator
Wilderness International purchases legally secure wilderness areas and protects them for all future generations. The purchases are refinanced through donations, which at the same time ensure the long-term protection of the areas and enable environmental education projects and research into CO2 storage and biodiversity. Donors receive a personalized certificate with the exact geo-coordinates of the protected forest area, so that the protection is directly traceable. We are currently active in the temperate rainforest of Western Canada and in the Amazon rainforest of Peru, where we are protecting ancient primary rainforests.
There are no further obligations for you. The donation is one-time, and enables us as a foundation to ensure the long-term protection of the area. The sponsorship is a symbolic one. The forest area remains the property of the Foundation.
We protect the areas we select exclusively through purchase with entry in the land register and in countries with a high level of legal security. All three international foundations are registered as owners in the land register. The forest areas that we have purchased as foundations can no longer be bought from us and we are no longer allowed to sell them.
The organizational form of the foundation prevents the rights over the disposal of property from resting with a single person and ensures its permanent existence. Our statutes stipulate that the land is to be left untouched and only visited for research and documentation purposes.
Due to their remoteness and the undeveloped area, our protected areas in Canada can only be reached at great financial, material and time expense and not without risk. In addition, the high level of legal certainty in Canada ensures that damage to land results in severe sanctions. The British Columbia Trespass Act clearly prohibits trespassing on private land. Violations are prosecuted in court, even if no damage has been done. We also visit and inspect the areas as part of regular research visits and have partnerships with local companies that support us. In Canada, we also have the advantage that property has a very high cultural and historical value and is respected.
The rainforests in Peru and Canada are among the last 2.8% of intact wilderness areas on our planet - and are unfortunately under acute threat(Plumptre et al., 2021). 10-15% of all annual emissions are caused by the destruction of these forests and their peatlands - so we need to act now!
Numerous studies prove the threat to the rainforest in Peru and Canada. Everyone knows about the value of the Amazon forests and the threat to them. But hardly anyone talks about British Columbia's forgotten ecosystem:
If we lose the last intact rainforests, this will have catastrophic consequences for our planet. The concept of planetary boundaries states that there are certain ecological limits which, if exceeded, will jeopardize the stability of the Earth's ecosystem and thus the progress of humanity. Numerous studies show that we are well on the way to exceeding at least five of the nine planetary boundaries, also known as 'tipping points' or 'tipping elements'. One of these elements is the loss of the tropical rainforest. We can already feel the consequences of climate change, but we still have the chance to avert the worst effects, as the summary of the book 'Earth for all' shows.
