Experience the Jungle Life…

We all glad that our reforestation team doesn’t loose the leader.

Ok Team move on!

Thanks to the Volunteers!

Thank you David…

You have been so kind to us by doing amazing work in the information centre in Tanjung Harapan, while you could go somewhere else to spend your summer holiday: ) and still continuing to support us with your painting contribution which  helped us to survive till now.

Terima kasih banyak Pak Guru!

Thank you Karin,

We would like to thank for Karin for volunteering with us in September. Karin is from French and stayed with us for three weeks helping the wildlife program. She had helped to clean the orangutan’s cage and also in  preparing line transect for orangutan survey. After Karin got back to her country she continued to help us to raise money in French. 

Merci beacoup, Ikan Karing! Keep up the good work. 

Abientot.   Love

Thank you Simonyet,

We just got a short time volunteer who joined us for two weeks time in the park, early this month.  Simon, his name from England, turned  to Simonyet  here, means the Monkey, he has helped us to extinguish the fire and built the puppet show’s stage and also in helped us in surveying the orangutan. Now he’s continuing to volunteer with other wildlife program in Thailand.

Gracias Nyet, wish you luck with all your volunteer experiences!

Thank you Kay Howe,

At last but not least, thanks for our friend, Kay Howe from US who has been staying with us since early this year to help us with the mercury project and education. Although visa has made her almost give up but she decided to stay and continue the work with us. She must leave the country this week after 6 months stayed in
Indonesia, and now she is going to go to Singapore to get a new visa and will be back next week. Thank You  Ibu Kay

Everybody, please don’t be hesitate to join us to work as a team; we, orangutan and the trees will be thankfull

Hello Friends

Another great news from here. Yesterday when I got back from a proboscys monkeys expedition we got a text massage from David,  the artist,  telling  that the Putra Utan painting  has been sold,  that means some money will be contributed for the orangutan and the wildlife.

Yes, thanks a lot Dave!

A Great news from here.

We had said good bye to the Fire! 

On the 6^th of November,we got a lot of rains that has stopped the fire in many parts of Tanjung Putting including in our area. Thank you for your prayers, your supports and wishes.

Love

Sleeping on the hammock under the tree last night, I admired the beauty of the nature and also thinking of what happened that day.  A TV Crew came from England with two bosses of a big organization. I was working with my team to put the fire out, and then one of the boss and the presenter were pretending that they were extinguish the fire. I felt funny to see that,  a big liar. He was acting to get money and he might would get that of this work, and  of what we have done, but people like us who really does the work, get none.

 Looking at my team sleeping on the dock to guard, I admire them, they work almost voluntary, day and night, sleep on the ground or on the dock, even they supply their own food to do this work because my organization is only small and we don’t have any budget for this.  Seems unfair, but I guess to think about that it will take my energy, I am happy with I am doing and so is the team, so I chose to enjoy the night sky and the shadow of the trees surround me.

Hello Friends..

Ikan Karing, thanks for the questions.

We are lucky that  the post is still ok, it was pretty  strange on the Oct, 21^st, after the fire  burnt the nursery, the wind changed its direction right in front of the post to the side of the post and turn back on the back of the post, then continued to burn the forest. It’s a  Miracle, isn’t it?

 We lost some of our work in the nursery, about 15000 new trees got burnt, many of them were Iron wood trees but luckily not all of the seeds and trees got burnt, we  still have some trees to be planted when the rains come.

Greetings from the jungle

Helo Everyone

After few days, rain gave us holiday from the fire for a while, we are back to fight the fire again. The rainy season has not come yet, or it’s only beginning of the rainy season. The fire is burning again in some different area, it’s because of the peat, when the rain only drop a llittle, it only put the fire out on the surface, but it still burning underground. And when the weather is so hot and the big wind comes, it starts again, red sky in the evening it’s a sign of the active burning, all over Kumai and Pangkalan Bun is still full of smoke. Yesterday the airport (like the previous day) was closed.

Ok, Will come back with the news from the field again soon..