With a large jungle graffiti on a house wall opposite the Eastside Gallery in Berlin-Friedrichshain, the non-profit organization Green Forest Fund wants to draw attention to the importance of unmanaged forests. The organization is implementing the street art project together with the artist Jasmin Siddiqui from the artist duo Herakut, as the association announced on Saturday. The picture should be mostly finished over the weekend. It shows a deer in the forest.
“In Germany, 98 percent of all forests are managed,” said the founder of the Green Forest Fund, Thorsten Walter, of the German Press Agency. There is no longer any jungle in this country. “Trees and primeval forests are our allies in the fight against climate change.” Primeval forests stored three times as much CO2 as managed forests.
The Green Forest Fund buys up land to plant uncultivated forest areas. Donors can donate a tree for 30 euros. In this way, “untouched habitat for plants and animals should be created”. According to the organization, it has bought up around 650,000 square meters of forest area, mainly in Brandenburg and Baden-Württemberg, and planted more than 25,000 trees on it.
According to her, the graffiti by the artist Jasmin Siddiqui has the motto “Less Castles, More Jungle”.
