Do you want escape to the rainforest? Rainforest: Live is back!
PRESS RELEASE For immediate releases Palangka Raya, 15 June 2021 – For those looking for some positive news on June 22, 2021, Rainforest: Live is the perfect opportunity to escape into the unknown. Rainforest: Live is a day of social media activity bringing live wildlife sightings to people from rainforests around the world. This annual […]
BNF Provides Nursery Training for the Community
High quality seedling care during the early stages of reforestation is an essential element for the success of restoring forest ecosystems, as well as being a beneficial skill for local community members to have to improve economic prosperity. Therefore, for the successful recovery of the Sebangau National Park peat swamp forest ecosystem through the one […]
The success of the One Million Trees Program, BNF Provides Nursery Training for the Community
Palangka Raya, Tuesday (04/05/2021) – High quality seedling care during the early stages of reforestation is an essential element for the success of restoring forest ecosystems, as well as being a beneficial skill for local community members to have to improve economic prosperity. Therefore, for the successful recovery of the Sebangau National Park peat swamp […]
Restoring the Sebangau National Park Ecosystem; BTNS and BNF Expanding Tree Planting Areas
Palangka Raya, 25th March 2021 – The process of restoring the Sebangau National Park’s peat swamp forest ecosystem continues, through intensive planting for reforestation. Together, the Sebangau National Park Agency (BTNS), the Directorate General of KSDAE, the Ministry of Environment and Forestry (KLHK), and Borneo Nature Foundation (BNF), will expand the planting area and upscale […]
Collective Efforts are Needed to Restore the Sebangau National Park Ecosystem
Jakarta, 23th March 2021 – Restoring the Sebangau National Park Ecosystem requires collective efforts. The government needs support from related partners to realize ecosystem restoration efforts in the region. Therefore, the Ministry of Environment and Forestry (KLHK) welcomes the collaboration between the Sebangau National Park Agency (BTNS) and Borneo Nature Foundation (BNF), for restoring the […]
Biodiversity Identification and Monitoring Training for Functional Workers of Sebangau National Park
Borneo Nature Foundation (BNF) Indonesia together with the Sebangau National Park Agency (BTNS), conducted a training session on identification, inventories, and monitoring of biodiversity, for the Sebangau National Park Forest Ecosystem Controller (PEH) functional staff. This two-day training event was held at the BTNS Office and Sungai Koran Resort Sebangau Hulu on March 10-11, 2021. […]
BNF launched a project to plant One Million Trees
Palangka Raya, 23rd February 2021 – Borneo Nature Foundation (BNF) has launched an exciting new project to plant one million trees over the next five years, in the Sebangau National Park, Central Kalimantan. This project is an effort to restore the ecological function of the burned areas of the forest. BNF International Executive Director Simon […]
Legal certainty for social forestry management for 18 villages in Pulang Pisau
The Borneo Nature Foundation (BNF) together with the Central Kalimantan Provincial Forestry Service (Kalteng) and the Central Kalimantan Forest Management Unit (KPH), held a socialization event on social forestry licensing in Palangka Raya City, on Tuesday (9/2/2021). In the event which was held in the Central Kalimantan KPH Office Hall, a Decree of Social Forestry […]
CIMTROP – BNF Launches Drone Center for Peat Fire Mitigation
Borneo Nature Foundation (BNF) together with UPT LLG CIMTROP (Center For International Cooperation In Sustainable Management of Tropical Peatland) and Liverpool John Moores University are utilising “drone” technology to mitigate fires in peatlands. “We are currently conducting ongoing research on the use of ‘thermal drones’ to mitigate peatland fires and today we are launching a […]
The Provincial Government of Central Kalimantan and BNF Launch Guidelines for Indigenous Communities
The Provincial Government (Pemprov) of Central Kalimantan together with the Borneo Nature Foundation (BNF) Indonesia inaugurated the Launch of the Guidelines for the Recognition of the Existence of the Indigenous Community (MHA) of Central Kalimantan. The launch of the guidelines took place at the Eka Hapakat Hall, Governor’s Office, Palangka Raya, last Thursday (28/01/21). This […]