Learning by doing in the forest
Written by Petricia A. Hutasoit (BNF’s Education Staff) Last month, the Education Programme, Anak Sabangau, learned about the importance of biodiversity, while learning about the tree species and animals that live in the Sabangau forest. At the end of the lessons, the Education Team brought Anak Sabangau to visit CIMTROP’s LAHG Camp to have firsthand […]
Using fun learning methods to teach children about the environment
Written by Petricia A. Hutasoit (BNF’s Education Staff) BNF’s Education Team recently went to Mungku Baru, a village in the Rungan Landscape where Borneo Nature Foundation is developing a new conservation programme. The Education Team have been visiting Mungku Baru to carry out educational activities since 2016. During this recent visit, we brought a box of […]
The dream of Borneo
Written by Ahmad Fauzi, BNF’s Barito Ulu Programme Field Coordinator In the past, when I heard people say ‘Borneo’, my thoughts immediately jumped to mandau (traditional Dayak machete), poisonous chopsticks, wild animals, dense forests, and winding rivers. A wet January, early in 2018 at the height of the rainy season, I joined Borneo Nature Foundation as […]
A trip to learn about the ecosystem and camera traps
Written by Lynn Pallemaerts It’s not every day you get the opportunity to fly off to Borneo in the middle of the year to get some training on camera traps. Lucky me. Leaving my wintery home in Sweden at the beginning of February, I set off from airport to airport, before finally making it to […]
Seeking Solutions: Students come together at the GIN Youth Conference Bali
Last weekend Suzanne Turnock, BNF’s Communications Development Manager, joined a Global Issues Network (GIN) youth conference in Bali to lead a student workshop. GIN is an opportunity for high school students to come together, share ideas and create solutions for global issues. GIN conferences are student-led and supported by school communities all over the world. […]
Saving the cats of the swamps (large and small)
Written by Susan M. Cheyne (BNF’s co-director) I love cats, ever since my family got a kitten when I was 8 years old. But at that time, I had no idea that there actually 33 species of wild cats around the world. Many people know about lions and tigers, but fewer people know about hard […]
Photography experience in Sebangau National Park
Written by Duncan Murrell (Photographer) As a conservation photographer already involved in conservation work in Palawan right next door to Borneo it was an obvious progression for me to try to get involved there as well, and fortuitously that was facilitated when I met one of the directors of the Borneo Nature Foundation who lives […]
Socialising forest expedition results to the Mungku Baru community
In 2017, Borneo Nature Foundation collaborated with the University of Muhammadiyah Palangka Raya (UMP) and the University of Exeter, UK to undertake our second scientific expedition in the Education Forest (KHDTK) near the village of Mungku Baru, Central Kalimantan. The aim of the expedition was to conduct baseline surveys to describe the forest habitat, its […]
Protecting Dayak medicinal knowledge in the midst of modernization
Written by Siddarth Badri (Independent Researcher) According to the communities in the villages of Kereng Bangkirai and Sabaru, the forest is a sacred place, governed by the Adat (or cultural) law system; a set of spiritual norms to regulate human activity in the natural world. Humans are viewed as lesser beings compared to the creatures […]
Celebrating International Day of Women and Girls in Science
Written by Jennifer Brousseau This past week, myself and other members of the Borneo Nature Foundation team visited a local high school in Palangka Raya to talk about our own experience in research and conservation with the hope of empowering students to get involved in science. The members of the team included myself, BNF’s International Visits […]