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WE Protect

Safeguarding one of the most climate-critical rainforests on the planet.

BIG ISLAND, BIG IMPACT

Borneo. The world’s 3rd largest island. Its vast tropical peatlands form one of the most important land-based carbon stores on Earth.

BIODIVERSITY BENEFITS US ALL

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.

 

TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE

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.

Major Projects

FIREFIGHTING AND PREVENTION

We support a network of community firefighting teams who patrol the forest, ready to snap into action at the first sign of flames.

INDIGENOUS LAND RIGHTS

We help local communities secure legal management rights over their ancestral forests, protecting their way of life and preventing commercial deforestation.

SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS

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.

OUR IMPACT

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Community firefighting patrols prepare, prevent and tackle fires all year round.

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Through consultation and support we help Indigenous communities get control of their land.

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Our sustainable livelihood projects support people to start new businesses.

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STORIES

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  • Education, Wildlife
  • - January 31, 2022

Popy’s Adventure #3

POPY’S ADVENTURE #3 POPY MEETS OBO As sunlight fell through cracks in the trees and the morning’s dew began to evaporate, Popy and her mother

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  • Education
  • - January 27, 2022

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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  • Education
  • - November 25, 2021

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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  • Conservation
  • - July 19, 2021

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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  • Reforestation, Restoration
  • - July 16, 2025

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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  • Conservation, Rainforests
  • - June 7, 2025

25 Years of Protecting

The Borneo Nature Foundation (BNF) was founded 25 years ago to champion the protection of the Sebangau peat-swamp rainforest in southern Borneo. This forest harbours

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  • News
  • - May 19, 2025

2025 field courses are now live!

Experience Borneo’s rainforest for real this summer. Our field courses are back! Gain first-hand insight into tropical peat-swamp rainforest with world-leading scientists and field experts.

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  • Camera Traps, Conservation, Scientific Research
  • - April 12, 2025

25 Years of Learning

We exist because of scientific research. BNF (or The Orangutan Tropical Peatland Project, as we were then known) was formed 25 years ago off the

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  • Conservation
  • - April 12, 2025

25 Years of Borneo Nature Foundation

Have you heard? We’re turning 25 this year! By nature's standards, 25 years isn't a long time. In fact, it's not even long enough for

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  • Community Development, Conservation
  • - March 8, 2025

Women’s welfare and wildlife

In Borneo and around the world, women are a driving force for conservation in their communities. Today, on International Women’s Day, we celebrate the vital

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  • Conservation, Firefighting and Prevention, Rainforests
  • - March 6, 2025

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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  • Conservation, Year Highlights
  • - February 15, 2025

Could You Be the One (%)?

It’s Valentine’s Day, and Cupid’s not the only matchmaker in town... We’re excited to announce that we’ve joined 1% for the Planet to find our

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  • Conservation, Year Highlights
  • - February 1, 2025

Best of Borneo Nature Foundation 2024

2024 was a BIG year for us here at BNF – and we've got the numbers to prove it! As our teams forge ahead with

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  • Conservation, Firefighting and Prevention, Rainforests
  • - November 30, 2024

We give a dam: Here’s why you should too 

Conventional wisdom suggests that dams are universally bad for wildlife, that they disrupt natural processes and damage critical wetland ecosystems. However, there are some exceptions

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  • Conservation, Rainforests
  • - October 2, 2024

Rainforests and You: Make the Connection

It's in your lungs. It's in your fridge, your medicine cabinet and your weather forecast.​ It affects your life every. single. day.​ It may be

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  • Uncategorized
  • - August 29, 2024

TIME TRAVEL WITH US.

Our ’23 Annual Report is out now! A year of connected conservation action all in one place. We won’t lie, 2023 was a trial by

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