Tropical Salvage
Tropical Salvage is social enterprise, what it is called “a business with a cause”. Its business model is simple: import high-value hand crafted furniture, household accessories and architectural components. But it doesn’t end there, accordingly to their claim: “We never cut down a tree to make our solidwood furniture” and is there where the salvage part starts. The source of wood is any that one could imagine except logging, from timber floating down rivers to trees knocked down by earthquakes or volcanic eruptions. This wood is recovered (salvaged) and used to craft different items by up to 95 qualified Indonesian carvers, whose employment is based on fair trade principles. The broad range of tropical species leads to unique figures and colours.
Tropical Salvage was created by Tim O’Brien after he saw, during a hike Gunung Lueser National Park (West Sumatra) in 1998, a vast area of recently clear-cut primary forest. The logging project had harvested only the trees’ trunks, leaving behind the crowns and stumps. He was so shocked and moved by the experience in Sumatra that he decided to take action by creating a business strategy that would help reduce destructive pressure on primary forests.
Different items made out of salvaged wood.
Salvage of a trunk.
The company collaborates also, in partnership with the Institute for Culture and Ecology (IFCAE) and the Jepara community, to develop the Jepara Forest Conservancy, a botanical park and environmental education centre to improve local environmental conditions and raise environmental awareness on the Mount Muria peninsula in North Central Java.
To know more: http://tropicalsalvage.com
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