Ecolodges Indonesia

Category: Rimba Orangutan Ecolodge

UPDATE ON THE FOREST MANAGEMENT TRAINING CENTRE, RIMBA.

• Ecolodges Indonesia, National Parks, Rimba Orangutan Ecolodge, Uncategorized, Updates

UPDATE ON THE FOREST MANAGEMENT TRAINING CENTRE, RIMBA. If you want to plant a forest, where do you start? First you need an area to plant. This is in Kalimantan, (Borneo) in the 130,000 hectares burned in the massive fires of 2015. Then you need money for wages of staff, equipment oats for transport, a camp for workers…. Some money is coming in from special people, our donors to the Indonesia Conservation Foundation–Our World, to […]

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A SPECIAL FEATURE – THE FOREST MANAGEMENT TRAINING CENTRE

• Ecolodges Indonesia, Indonesian Animals, National Parks, Orangutan, Rimba Orangutan Ecolodge, Updates

A SPECIAL FEATURE – THE FOREST MANAGEMENT TRAINING CENTRE. The Forest Management Training Centre courses started small in August 2021, with our own local leaders taking a two-day course. Then, thanks to the efforts of Ibu Emi in the office in Bali and the interest and support of Ibu Birute Galdikas’ son Fred, channeled through Pak Fajar we have taken off! Bapak Fajar has run his own eco-project in the past and is now helping […]

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BUTTERFLIES FROM THE CANOPY TO FOREST EDGE

• Agricultural, Ecolodges Indonesia, Indonesian Animals, Kelimutu Crater Lake Ecolodge, Mbeliling Ecolodge, Rimba Orangutan Ecolodge, Satwa Ecolodge, Uncategorized, Updates

BUTTERFLIES FROM THE CANOPY TO FOREST EDGE Instead of projects or Covid, let’s have a look at why we are immersed in projects in the first place! ‘The Forest’ covers so much more than trees and orangutans, sheltering literally billions of species of birds, bats, animals, reptiles, snails, insects, orchids, and ferns, fungi, micro- organisms and lichens and mycellia and more. Here we show just five of the butterflies needed to pollinate the blossoms of […]

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UNUSUAL THREATS TO OUR PROJECTS.

• Agricultural, Ecolodges Indonesia, Indonesian Animals, Kelimutu Crater Lake Ecolodge, Mbeliling Ecolodge, Rimba Orangutan Ecolodge, Satwa Ecolodge, Uncategorized, Updates

UNUSUAL THREATS TO OUR PROJECTS. Since Covid we have experienced threats of loss of income, loss of jobs, and now….. A two- and -half metre long python managed to get itself into the rafters of Ibu Naniks goat pen, lying in wait for the precious kids, her bank account, as it were. The neighbors heard her shouts and called a National Park Forest Ranger who removed it from temptation and returned it to a distant […]

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UPDATE ON AGRICULTURE AND OTHER ACTIVITY AT EACH LODGE

• Agricultural, Ecolodges Indonesia, Indonesian Animals, Kelimutu Crater Lake Ecolodge, Mbeliling Ecolodge, Rimba Orangutan Ecolodge, Satwa Ecolodge, Updates

UPDATE ON AGRICULTURE AND OTHER ACTIVITY AT EACH LODGE The deadly blow of the Delta virus strain in Indonesia has pushed the chances of overseas or even local visitors even further away. This has made our AGRICULTURAL PROJECTS of even greater importance . At KELIMUTU CRATER  LAKES ECOLODGE we now have a profit sharing system with members of staff as we do for the rice terraces . Our newly  acquired small tractor plough was used […]

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FOREST MANAGEMENT TRAINING CENTRE COURSE

• Ecolodges Indonesia, Hotels Indonesia, Indonesian Animals, Indonesian Holidays, National Parks, Orangutan, Rimba Orangutan Ecolodge, Updates

FOREST MANAGEMENT TRAINING CENTRE COURSE 3rd and 4th July 2021 Held at the Rimba Orangutan Ecolodge, Sekonyer River, Central Kalimantan. You are witnessing the first brave steps of the infant FOREST MANAGEMENT TRAINING CENTRE COURSE,  held on Saturday 3rd and Sunday 4th July,2021. The idea is to inspire the group of our staff and local villagers involved, to know WHY they are going to plant trees, eventually 150,000 of them, in the Southern part of […]

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