Tree planting in village schools with BNF
Written by Dwi Riyan (BNF Education Manager) Reforestation is one of the important conservation activities delivered by BNF. As well as our reforestation programme in the Sebangau National Park forest, we have initiated tree planting sessions in schools in the village of Mungku Baru. Mungku Baru is located in the Rungan Landscape; 150,000 hectares of […]
Rewetting the peat to protect Sebangau National Park Peat-swamp Forest
Sebangau National Park is a protected peat-swamp forest in Central Kalimantan and is the largest lowland forest remaining on Borneo. But, 20 years ago canals were dug into the peat by loggers to float out felled timber before the area gained protected status. Hundreds of the canals still remain inside Sebangau National Park peat-swamp forest […]
Tackling the Illegal Online Trade of Indonesian Small Apes
Written by Dr. Susan Cheyne (BNF International’s Co-director) In 2018, Indonesia was ranked in the top four countries with the highest number of Facebook and Instagram users globally. Indonesia is also recognised as one of the top primate habitat countries with the most prolific trade in wildlife. Eight species of gibbon are distributed across Indonesia; […]
BNF Education Volunteers: Protecting the environment through education
Written by Ina Christina (BNF Education Staff) Our Youth Education Programme delivers environmental education activities for young people, in local schools and communities, from kindergarten age right up to high school. Due to the high number of participants in our Education Programme, BNF cannot implement all the activities alone. We need support from volunteers who […]
University of Exeter students join Borneo Field Course: bringing benefits to local communities
BNF has been carrying out ecology research for over 20 years in Indonesia. Using these expertise, a long-term priority of BNF is to build capacity in local and international research and conservation. Thus, it is with great pleasure that we are hosting a Field Course for 36 students and 5 lecturers from the University of […]
Building stronger collaborations to protect the Rungan Landscape
In December, BNF held a multi-stakeholder workshop on the management of the Rungan Landscape through a new social forestry scheme. The aim was to strengthen the collaboration and commitment of local stakeholders in management, that is balanced between socio-economic and ecological needs, of this large forested landscape (155,880 ha). Incredibly, BNF has discovered a significant […]
BBC Earth’s Tropical Islands: Interview with Twenti
Interview by Desi Natalia (BNF’s Online Engagement Officer) Hi Twenti, how are you? Hi, I’m great! So, we will talk about the self-medicating orangutans that were featured in the BBC Earth’s Tropical Islands Borneo episode. Can you tell me when the BBC came to Borneo to film for the new documentary series? The film crew […]
BNF orangutan discovery features in BBC series ‘Earth’s Tropical Islands’
This coming January, BNF will feature in BBC’s new series ‘Earth’s Tropical Islands’. The 3-part tv series, airing from 1 – 3 January 2020, explores some of the world’s most isolated and iconic tropical islands – Madagascar, Borneo and Hawaii. The second episode, broadcast on 2 January, will take you on a journey through Borneo’s […]
Top 10 highlights from 2019
It’s always a pleasure to look back over our highs in the last 12 months, especially when it has been a year of many challenges. Although we can’t include every story from the last year in this shortlist of highlights, we hope this will show the scale and scope of our work during 2019. Enjoy! 1. […]
New seeds of hope: Tree planting in the home of wild orangutans
Land and forest fires were back in full force in 2019 when fires blazed across Indonesia. However, due to the incredible efforts of Community Firefighting Teams who held the flames back from the Sebangau National Park peat-swamp forest, no forest was lost in the northern Sebangau area. Although there was no forest loss this year, […]