I am raising funds to buy forest land in Lithuania, protect it from clear-cutting, and restore damaged forests so biodiversity can return and ecosystems can grow resilient again.
Lithuania’s forests are alive — but many are treated as short-term resources instead of living ecosystems.
Clear-cutting, monoculture forestry, and premature harvesting destroy the complex relationships between trees, fungi, insects, birds, mammals, soil, and water. Once these connections are broken, forests become weaker, more vulnerable to disease, drought, and storms, and far less capable of supporting life.
I started this initiative to offer a different path. The goal is simple and concrete:
I raise funds to buy forest land, permanently protect it from clear-cutting, and restore damaged forests by allowing natural regeneration and ecological recovery. This is not about planting fast-growing trees. This is about giving forests time.
When forests are allowed to grow old:
– Biodiversity increases naturally
– Soil life recovers and stores more carbon
– Water cycles stabilize
– Forests become resilient instead of fragile
– Wildlife returns without human control
Every contribution helps secure land that will remain forest — not plantation — for generations to come.
This is land for life, not profit.
How the money will be used?
– Purchase forest land in Lithuania
– Legal protection against clear-cutting
– Ecological assessment of damaged areas
– Long-term restoration through natural regeneration
– Transparent reporting of every step
Why I’m doing this?
Because once a forest is gone, it cannot be rushed back.
Because biodiversity is not decoration — it is resilience.
Because future generations deserve living forests, not empty landscapes.
If you believe forests have the right to grow old, I invite you to become a guardian of this land.
Jacko Scholten 