CAKE and Treesistance Join Forces to Protect the Amazon Rainforest and Empower the People Who Call It Home
Every day, the Amazon rainforest loses an average of five football fields of trees per minute to deforestation. A new collaboration between Swedish e-Bike manufacturer CAKE and forest defenders Treeesistance is poised to change that. Leveraging CAKE’s lightweight, whisper-quiet, off-road, 100% solar-powered Kalk AP electric motorcycles, the partnership aims to protect the Amazon rainforest and its people by safeguarding endangered species and combatting illegal deforestation. Treesistance is a new platform focused on the protection of the Amazon, created by Sinchi, a Dutch non-profit founded in early 2016 to support and assist Indigenous-led actions against the violation of their rights and the destruction of the environment.

Building upon the success of its Electric Bush Bike Anti-Poaching Initiative in South Africa, CAKE’s e-motorcycles will allow indigenous Forest Guardians to safely and silently patrol remote areas of the rainforest where combustion-engined vehicles are a hazard, as they alert heavily-armed poaching teams of their presence. And with many logging camps undetectable by drones because of heavy forest cover, these on-the-ground Guardians are essential.





We at The Vintagent salute CAKE for its bold moves to support defense-of-nature initiatives around the world. They’re putting their bikes where their values are! They appear to be the only motorcycle company in the world supporting such important efforts as animal conservation and rainforest preservation. Hopefully their example will inspire other companies to think outside the box, and find similarly clever ways to use their technology. Kudos to CAKE! For more information, check the Treesistance presentation here.

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Hmmm … once again logic completely tossed out the window in favor of blatant unrepentant NIMBY ( not in my backyard ..but in yours .. well hell … thats just fine !!! ) GREED !
e.g. Destroy the earth five ways sideways
( Cobalt mining … Lithium mining …. rare earth minerals mining [ and even worse rare earth mineral refining ]…now going from land to sea … not to mention the atmospheric cost of producing electricity … compounded by the additional destruction of the planet with the disposal of all of the above including the EV itself .. wicks is all but guaranteed to last five years or less …
In order to save the earth ..
Yeah … like I said … logic ( as well as science and engineering ) tossed aside to keep all the Ayn RandoSycophants happy .
And yeah … ait micro dosing just working wonders in regards to the future of our planet ?
Otr to quote many a sage ..
” We’re ( bleeped ) … six ways sideways .
With the only plausible and possible solution being the very one we refuse …
DO LESS … USE LESS .. BUY LESS … and learn the fine art of …. hold onto to it my little snowflakes …
CONTENTMENT
Lecture over … a waste or time and intellect I know … ( tossing pearls to pigs comes to mind ) .. but there it is … for any discerning enough to make use of it
You’re missing two critical pieces of information about the Kalk AP for this particular application: it’s silent, and it doesn’t use expensive fuel. That makes it possibly a perfect machine for the job…a very dangerous job indeed. Hard to overemphasize this: lots of indigenous folks defending their forest from poachers have been murdered, so stealth is critical. With a change of gov’t in Brazil, there might even be support for these efforts at conservation, instead of a blind eye and a wink at slash-and-burn tactics devastating the ‘lungs of the earth’…
Silent, it’s important and it’s why the English policemen loved their Velocette LE!
I can’t imagine an LE in the Amazon, but stranger things have happened!
I’m struggling to imagine escaping from a gang of angry logers in pickups, on an LE. Tried wheelies on one? It does nae wuk!