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Awareness

Campaigns, media and public moments that remind Suriname, and the world, what 93% forest cover is worth.

Projects

  • The “Together we keep Suriname green” poster with the logos of the participating organisations

    Active

    Keep Suriname Green

    An urgent call from Suriname's green organisations to keep the country green together, and to put nature and the future first in policy and investment decisions.

    • Awareness

    9 ambassadors

  • A large group of secondary school students in uniform gathered under a school canopy after an awareness session about plastics

    Completed

    Plastic Footprint Change Agents, with UNICEF

    Twenty young Change Agents from four districts ran workshops in schools and community groups on cutting single-use plastic, as part of UNICEF's Plastic Footprint Suriname project.

    • Youth
    • Education
    • Awareness
    • Environment

    1 ambassador

  • Team photo of Suriname's national football squad in their Forest93 Gold Cup shirts

    Completed

    Natio represents Mama Sranan

    At its first-ever CONCACAF Gold Cup in July 2021, Suriname's national football team played in shirts carrying the Forest93 message.

    • Awareness

    1 ambassador

  • The Green Growth Wildlife app on a phone, showing sighting markers across a map of Suriname, beside an illustration of a hand holding a patch of forest with a jaguar, sloth, macaw and turtle

    Ongoing

    Green Growth Wildlife app

    The first citizen science app in an indigenous language for documenting wildlife, built so anyone in Suriname can add to the country's biodiversity record.

    • Citizen science
    • Wildlife
    • Awareness

    1 ambassador

  • Title card for Busi Taki season 5: “De Groene Agenda” (“The Green Agenda”)

    Completed

    Busi Taki

    The Forest93 web series that gives every Surinamese a view of the forest: from what counts as forest to season 5, which asks politicians, business and government for their green agenda.

    • Awareness

    2 ambassadors

  • Title card: “Mama Sranan”, Byciel Watsaam

    Completed

    Mama Sranan, the campaign song

    The Forest93 campaign song, sung in Sranantongo by Byciel Watsaam, in which Mama Sranan (Mother Suriname) tells how her guests are treating her.

    • Culture & arts
    • Awareness

    1 ambassador

  • A campaign billboard on the Sophie Redmondstraat: an indigenous elder in a feather headdress, half against forest and half against a wall of plastic waste, headed "Ik kies Bos." and "Wat kies jij?" with a call to sign the petition at schoonengroensuriname.sr

    Completed

    What do you choose?

    A campaign and petition for new environmental and nature legislation, asking Surinamese to choose between a clean, nature-rich environment and a damaged, filthy one.

    • Awareness
  • Two stilt walkers in red and striped costumes breathing fire at dusk at the Urban Heritage & Art Festival, under a 93% Bos. 100% Surinaams. banner

    Completed

    Launching 93% Bos. 100% Surinaams.

    The campaign's first public moments in 2019: a soft launch at the Amazonemarkt on Indigenous Day, then the launch at the first Urban Heritage & Art Festival in Paramaribo.

    • Awareness
    • Culture & arts

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