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A SPECIAL FEATURE – THE FOREST MANAGEMENT TRAINING CENTRE

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

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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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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