Experience the Jungle Life…

Hi. just to give information, perhaps painting lover interested with any of the orangutan painting in the albums “Orangutan painting for sale” David H White, the artist will contribute 10 % of the price to the conservation effort, especially for the wildlife clinic in Tanjung Harapan. David White with 4 other artists will exhibit their art works in Mariot hotel, Jakarta on Nov 3, 4 and 5,2006. For anyone who is interested could contact Yenny  Fildayani at yeniorut@fnpf.org  or directly to David at

Davidhwhite67@hotmail.com

David was a volunteer in July, he did a mural on the information room in Tanjung Harapan camp. His work has made the information centre more interesting to see , David has done a great job for the Park. 

THANKS DAVE.

Good luck with your painting exhibition.

A broken hearted story. We lost…  The peak of the fire was on Saturday when many staff went back home for Ramadhan and only Christian staff and one Moslem staff left to guard the post and checking the fires. The wind blew so big and brought the fire crossed the fire line and we couldn’t control it anymore. Inun the babysitter was in Pesalat forest at that moment following orangutans, there she cried to see the thick smoke coming from Beguruh direction , we all worry if the fire reached Pesalat where we released orangutans, our orangutans would die, luckily not, but we lost many. We couldn’t save our work and  were chased by the fire instead. Thanks God not long after the big fire the rains came, Tanjung Harapan post was saved, Pesalat post was saved . We lost some of our reforestation works and also the Reforestation Manager.

He made a vow that he will quit smoking forever if Beguruh saved from the fire, but if the fire burnt and his work, he will quit the work in Tanjung Puting. I Don’t know wheter this is a wise thing to do or not but I understand the feeling.

Ok Team… cheer up and hope a star will shine upon us.

God bless  us all.

Untill now the FIRE IS STILL BURNING although two days ago was raining a little, maybe only for 10 minutes but it didn’t help a lot.

Now I’lL be gone to the jungle for about a week, I must look after the orangutan in the camp so.. I am sorry, wont be any news till Ramadhan is over. See u ..

The fire  was started  by a villager who is farming inside the Park area which is on the south part of the Sekonyer river, this area has been a conflict area between local government and the Park Authority for already long time, but they have agreed the border for the farming village, the people don’t live there but they farm there, and to protect the Park from the fire, they had made a big fire line around the village, unfortunately one of the people was too greedy that he opened a new farming land outside their fire line, and when he burnt the land the fire spread so fast until he couldn’t handle anymore so he ran away. The government as usually will take ages to catch this kind of criminal.

Many people think that we can’t do anything, but if we don’t try we wouldn’t know, since we don’t have any budget to make water drop from a plane, at least we can try to make many  fire lines for now, and guard the fire to let it burn only the area inside the border, with this method we should sacrifice some more forest but will safe bigger area of forest and to do this we need so many people to be ready along the border to extinguish the fire that reach the border and also if they fire flew from the tree tops across the border.

Unfortunately until now the Park Authority only sent their people to be in the field for few days, what did they do? Some of them are good and responsible Forest Polices, willing to work with us but some of them are just lazy and sleep in the camp.

The central government in
Jakarta said they will use a cargo plane that can carry 400 ton and some helicopters to drop water in some fire spots in Central Kalimantan and Sumatra but it’s still a plan.

Let’s see..

 Hello Everybody,

Here is the latest news from
Tanjung Puting National Park,
We are having scary situation, the fire has been spreading so fast and now getting close to our main post, Tanjung Harapan. Just few days ago our team made a fire line to protect our reforestation work in Beguruh, but yesterday the fire blew to our main post which is 4 km from Beguruh, and now the fire is only about 2, 5 km from Tanjung Harapan. If the fire won’t stop soon, we are worry it will reach our post.

The picture in the “FIRE “ album were taken  only on the 1st day of the fire, and the 3rd day, by now the fire has been spreading for 12 days, the pictures in the file “Fire in the Park” were taken on the Oct, 11^th.

More than 500 hectares has been swollen by the fire by now.

Hopefully government will take a real action, otherwise not only the orang-utan will loose their home but the government themself will loose devisa, the tourists who mostly come to see the jungle and the orangutan will be dissapointed to see a burnt and empty Park

This evening Pangkalan Bun was so smoky, my eyes burning and cried, besides from the smoke

also from the text massage I have just got that  the fire is getting bigger and spreading so fast, swallow some of  our work.

But in town people seems don’t  care about the fire, they act like nothing  happened, do they  ever ask where all of  this smoke came from, or what could  we do ? they burning their rubbish and their land instead, and play fire lights on the streets.

Two days ago the Park Authority gave up and left the field , almost all of the Forest Police went back to town ,

only few people stayed to help FNPF staff to make fire line, so depressing for us who work in the area,

but luckily today they went up again with many people or maybe almost all Forest Police, 30 people of Park Authority now in action.