Safeguarding one of the most climate-critical rainforests on the planet.
Borneo. The world’s 3rd largest island. Its vast tropical peatlands form one of the most important land-based carbon stores on Earth.
Home to around 6% of all biodiversity, including the critically endangered Bornean orangutan.
This spectacular diversity of life supports ours by providing people with food, water, medicine, raw materials, stable weather, and so much more.
50% of Borneo’s peat swamp forest remains. Forest fires, logging, mining, peatland drainage and commercial agriculture all threaten the island’s wildlife, indigenous peoples, and our global climate.
We support a network of community firefighting teams who patrol the forest, ready to snap into action at the first sign of flames.
We help local communities secure legal management rights over their ancestral forests, protecting their way of life and preventing commercial deforestation.
We support communities to kickstart sustainable livelihood initiatives. From creating fishponds and permaculture gardens to developing ecotourism, this reduces poverty and pressure on the forest.
Community firefighting patrols prepare, prevent and tackle fires all year round.
Through consultation and support we help Indigenous communities get control of their land.
Our sustainable livelihood projects support people to start new businesses.
Popy’s Adventure #2
POPY BUILDS A NEST As the sun continued its westward crawl and the day’s colours slowly began to fade, Popy and her mother picked out
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Popy’s Adventure #1
THE FOREST GARDENERS The sun’s rays filter through gaps in the canopy, sporadically illuminating the forest floor. In a tall tree, Popy, a young orangutan,
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Menjalankan Konservasi Taman Nasional Sebangau Bersama Masyarakat
Taman Nasional Sebangau (TNS) merupakan salah satu kawasan konservasi dengan hutan rawa gambut tropika tersisa dan penting di Kalimantan, bahkan dunia. Keberadaan kawasan seluas ±
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Education: The Missing Link in Conservation
There’s a significant gap between awareness and understanding when it comes to environmental issues such as biodiversity loss and the climate crisis. More people than
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Combining Science and Storytelling for the Singing, Swinging Apes!
The role of culture in gibbon conservation Earlier in October, our Scientific Director Dr Susan Cheyne co-led a session at the IUCN World Conservation Congress
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20 YEARS OF GIBBON RESEARCH
Ever wondered what 20 years of gibbon-watching can teach us? Since 2005, we’ve been gathering one of the world’s longest continuous datasets on wild gibbon
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25 Years of Inspiring
For 25 years, our mission has been to learn, protect, restore and inspire in a bid to save Borneo’s biodiversity. Of these four major work
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Meet the Orangutans of Sebangau
Every orangutan is just as unique. For a Critically Endangered species like the Bornean orangutan, every individual counts. And each of those individuals has a
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Race for rainforest at the 2026 London Marathon
Race for rainforest at the 2026 London Marathon Are you an orangutan superfan? A carbon comrade? Or simply bonkers about Borneo? Then we need you
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25 Years of Restoring
First, we learn, facilitating world-leading research to gain a fuller understanding of Borneo’s unique biodiversity. Then, we protect priority ecosystems, using this new scientific insight
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25 Years of Protecting
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25 Years of Learning
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25 Years of Borneo Nature Foundation
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Women’s welfare and wildlife
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Peat Power!
Protect Our Peat-Powered Planet Peat is important. Maybe you’ve heard that before, but chances are this knowledge probably hasn’t impacted your day-to-day life much beyond
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