The first touch to conservation education
by Jessica (Education Staff) I was a teacher before I start to work in BNF. My biggest passion is to bring environmental awareness to all of my students. This is because nowadays children live very far from the nature and they only have few opportunities of coming into intimate contact with the nature, or having […]
BNF kicked off Community Nurseries Programme in Sebangau!
Borneo Nature Foundation (BNF) has been working together with the government and stakeholders to build capacity for local communities on conservation particularly in the area of Kereng Bangkirai and Sabaru, the two villages being the entrance gate to the Sebangau National Park peat-swamp forest, Sebangau district. In the previous year, BNF played critical role in […]
Hundreds of trees planted in burnt areas to celebrate the National Tree Planting Day
Yesterday [28/11/2018] Borneo Nature Foundation (BNF) planted hundreds of trees in the burnt forest area of Sebangau peat-swamp forest to celebrate the National Tree Planting Day. BNF brought together CIMTROP University of Palangka Raya (UPR), the students from the Faculty of Agriculture UPR, and local fire-fighting communities (MPA) in the villages of Sabaru and Kereng […]
BNF hosted the third Anak Sebangau Festival to promote waste management for clean environment
Borneo Nature Foundation (BNF) recently hosted the third Anak Sebangau (children of Sebangau) Festival at the Kereng Bangkirai port, the entrance gate to the Sebangau National Park peat-swamp forest, on Sunday [25/11/2018]. The fest has been celebrated annually since 2016, a year after 2015 devastating forest fires that took away millions of acres of pristine […]
21st of November: Celebrating fish and the strange species of Sebangau National Park
by Sara Thornton Today fishing communities around the world celebrate World Fisheries day to highlight the importance of maintaining the world’s fisheries and the rivers, lakes and oceans that sustains them. It is also Indonesia’s National Fish Day – so even more reason for us at BNF to celebrate! Across Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo) fishing is […]
Meet Sue Phillips: a 71-year-old volunteer in the Sebangau National Park peat-swamp forest
Sue Phillips is our recent and probably the most inspiring female participant of Volunteer Programme at Borneo Nature Foundation (BNF). Coming from Bath, the 71-year-old flew over thousands of miles to the Indonesian Borneo for supporting orangutan conservation with us at BNF by doing conservation works as a volunteer. To go to BNF research station […]
Letters from penpals: the children of Sebangau finally receive reply letters from Australia
by Petricia A. Hutasoit (BNF Education staff) Does anyone still remember about the exchange box activity that Anak Sebangau did with the Australian school last time? Well… finally we got the box from Australia, yippieeee!! Are you curious what is inside the box? When the box came, all of the Anak Sebangau members held their […]
Georgia to enter new role as a mother
Georgia, a wild adult female orangutan in Sebangau National Park’s peat-swamp forest, is reportedly found pregnant. Recently, the first child of Gracia (the mother) has been isolating herself and tends to live independently separating herself from her two siblings; Gara, and Gretel. This unusual behaviour has attracted our scientists to find out why she behaves […]
Local businesses & individuals raise vital funds for BNF’s Reforestation Programme
At the start of November, Borneo Nature Foundation (BNF) hosted a fundraising event called ‘Helping Hands’ in Ubud, Bali, for two bold missions. First, to raise funds to reforest burnt and logged areas of the Sebangau National Park forest; home to a large population of Critically Endangered Bornean orangutans (over 6,000 individuals) and other vulnerable […]
Honeymoon Phase in Borneo
by Hayley Kopp (BNF Volunteer 2018) The hammock swayed gently as I wrote in my journal. Taps of rain hit the roof of the lounge area. I glanced up to see a gecko resting on a beam. I heard the laughter of my fellow volunteers engaging in their nightly card game. Empty cocoa cups lay […]