Category: Rimba Orangutan Ecolodge

SURVIVAL UNDER COVID Our collaboration with The Foundation Conservation of Orangutan Habitat (KAHIU)

SURVIVAL UNDER COVID Our collaboration with The Foundation Conservation of Orangutan Habitat (KAHIU) We are now well into 2021 and our Indonesian Conservation Foundation is moving forward slowly but steadily. The major program now is No 3.2 named REWILD TANJUNG PUTING NATIONAL PARK working in collaboration with World Relief Australia (see website https://www.wra.org.au/2018conserveourworld ) and VetLove, a large, family-owned veterinary company based on the Gold Coast, Australia; also with private individual donors. Donations through this […]

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Butterflies in Indonesia

Butterflies in Indonesia Just to remind ourselves that our Conservation Projects protect not only habitat but myriads of insects as well as animals. Butterflies are a delight at all the Ecolodges, especially in Sumatra, where I once saw 50 species in one small area in one hour, at just the right season of rain and sun.The forest butterflies of Kalimantan often come to the bananas laid out on the feeding platforms for the orangutans of […]

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SURVIVAL UNDER COVID – THE STORY OF SURVIVAL IN 2020

SURVIVAL UNDER COVID THE STORY OF SURVIVAL IN 2020 2020 has been a year of challenge, global misery, struggle of families to remain intact, economic hardship to many and many other negatives results of the pandemic caused by COVID 19 virus. For our company, there have been opportunities and two stand out Sustainability of the company into the future under Indonesian management The formation of a legal conservation section the INDONESIA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION – OUR […]

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The village of Labuhan Ratu, Way Kambas National Park, South Sumatra, Indonesia.

The village of Labuhan Ratu, Way Kambas National Park, South Sumatra, Indonesia.  The Way Kambas National Park is situated in the western part of South Sumatra, Indonesia. The village of Labuan Ratu (LR) is one of the villages surrounding the park and is situated around the main entrance. It is the village where our Satwa Sumatra Ecolodge (SSEL) is located only 500 metres from the park entrance. The entrance of Way Kambas National Park The […]

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TANJUNG PUTING NATIONAL PARK ITS NOT JUST AN ORANGUTAN !

TANJUNG PUTING NATIONAL PARK ITS NOT JUST AN ORANGUTAN ! The best known animals in Tanjung Putting National Park (Central Borneo) are the orangutans, but Tanjung Puting also boasts the bizarre looking proboscis monkey as well as seven other primate species. Clouded leopards, civets, and Malaysian sun bears cavort in the park, as do mouse deer, barking deer, sambar deer, and the wild cattle known as banteng. Tanjung Puting hosts over 230 species of birds, […]

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The village of Tanjung Harapan (TH), near the Rimba Orangutan Ecolodge (ROEL)

The village of Tanjung Harapan (TH), near the Rimba Orangutan Ecolodge (ROEL) The 416,000 ha Tanjung Putting National Park in southern Central Kalimantan was set aside in the 1930s by the Dutch colonial government for the protection of the orangutan and proboscis monkey, and was designated as a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in 1977 and a national park in 1982 (Wikipedia). It is one of Indonesia’s gems being the home of eight species of primate including […]

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