Conservation team


#10YearChallenge

By Victoria Gehrke, Conservation Program Director  This year, a humorous, yet somewhat eye opening photo challenge rippled across the internet where you compare something from 2009 to 2019. In short, the #10YearChallenge (hopefully) shows your growth and improvement, and reminds you to never forget your humble beginnings and that time literally flies. The international conservation […]


Don’t Forget the Teachers

By Petrus Kanisius, Environmental Education Media  Officer While our Environmental Education program has developed to reach all students from elementary school to Master’s students through puppet shows, lectures, field trips, mentorships, support and scholarships, we also reach out to an often overlooked target demographic for conservation education: teachers! In October, we held the long-awaited Teacher Training workshop […]


Indonesia’s Fiery History

By Victoria Gehrke, Conservation Program DirectorIt’s hard to miss in the media lately – the world’s rainforests are on fire.Borneo is burning and the smoke from the fires of Sumatra and Borneo is lingering over all of Southeast Asia, causing schools and businesses to temporarily close. People are having to wear masks and are already […]


From Farmers to Facilitators – Natural Resource Assessment

By Petrus Kanisius, GPOCP Communications & Media Officer  One of our most successful working models for fulfilling long-term conservation goals is our grassroots-to-government approach where we work closely with communities to understand their situation, adapt our approach and involve them as much as possible in all steps of the process. This largely involves capacity building […]


One Forest Project Field Course

By Simon Tampubolon, GPOCP Environmental Education Field Coordinator Held annually at Cabang Panti Research Station since 2014, One Forest Project, in collaboration with Gunung Palung National Park (GPNP), have just led a fantastic and much beloved field course where they taught applied research design and analysis, field techniques, ecology, and botany. The course is intended […]