By Tim Laman This year, it was my honor to win the “Wildlife Photographer of the Year” award with an image of an orangutan climbing a tree in Gunung Palung National Park entitled “Entwined Lives”. As a wildlife photographer, it is a career highlight to win this award – the most prestigious in our field. […]
By Terri Breeden, GPOCP Program Director This October, GPOCP has been busy spreading education and awareness about orangutans and forest conservation. West Kalimantan had the pleasure of hosting part of the Wonderful Sail 2 Indonesia event. This event began with sailors leaving harbors in Australia and spending the next three months exploring some […]
By Katherine Scott, Research Manager With Halloween on the horizon and the start of the rainy season upon us, it seems only apt that we pay homage to the creepy (and frankly downright weird) creatures that come out of hiding around here. This year, as with the last, El Niño has treated us to […]
By Edward Tang, Conservation Education Coordinator Do you know why we should protect local rivers and forests? Of course the obvious reasons include species and habitat conservation, but healthy ecosystems also help prevent many natural disasters from occurring. Some of the benefits include better drainage to prevent flooding and erosion, and helping to maintain […]
By Muhlis Saputra, BOCS Recipient Through the Bornean Orangutan Caring Scholarship (BOCS), offered to me by the Gunung Palung Orangutan Conservation Program, I have carried out a one month internship for each year of my studies. I am currently in my final year at Tanjungpura University, where I study forestry, so last month […]
By Mariamah Achmad, Conservation Education Manager For the past month, the GPOCP office in Ketapang has been alive with youthful chatter as we had our Bornean Orangutan Caring Scholarship (BOCS) recipients here to participate in their internship as part of their scholarship requirement. The BOCS is designed for local students in the Gunung Palung landscape […]
