rungan - Critical Protection for Borneos Rainforest Rungan simmico landscape situated in Central Kalimantan Indonesia Google Maps This summer I traveled to the faraway island of Borneo to practice and promote the use of sound for studying and solving some of Indonesias biggest conservation challenges Since 2018 I have been conducting bioacoustics research within the 135000hectare Rungan Rungan is the only known site in Central Kalimantan to have all five cat species further demonstrating the urgent need to protect this habitat We are taking a collaborative multipartner multistakeholder approach aimed at building momentum and identifying comanagement opportunities to maintain forest cover We are working with the Cruising the Rungan river towards the Orangutans Islands we can spot the wild Orangutans from the riverside The forest of Pulau Kaja and Pulau Palas are a botanic garden is perfect as a pre release in the wild four other islands in the nearby area pulau Begamat pulau Palas 1 pulau Palas 2 and pulau Hampapak Matei are used all as a first The Rungan Landscape over 100000 hectares currently has no formal conservation project despite being the largest relativelyintact forest in this part of Borneo It is believed to have sizeable peat deposits A 2004 orangutan distribution analysis listed this area as home to over 1000 individuals and has been identified as priority habitat The Rungan River Peat Swamp Forest is a vast mosaic of threatened peat swamp and lowland rainforest in southern Borneo Fruitrich peat swamps support very high densities of Bornean Orangutans The area also supports substantial populations of other imperiled endemic species such as the Endangered Bornean Whitebearded Gibbon and Proboscis Rungan Community Development Borneo Nature Foundation Rungan River is the nickname of a big tropical rainforest area between the Rungan and the Kahayan rivers north of the Bornean city of Palangka Raya Central Kalimantan covering approx 130000 hectares The wow 397 land has been administratively divided between three districts but the majority of the area consists of adjoining forests and nature Rungan Program Head from BNF Anugerah Wicaksono explained that the process of obtaining customary forest and determining the MHA Rungan is like a dream that has become a reality Initially the community only proposed 138824 hectares consisting of 91558 hectares of Tabalien Customary Forest and 47266 hectares of Kaleka and Buleng Siang After 20 years of experience in research conservation and community empowerment in the Sebangau Landscape BNF is now developing community empowerment programs in the Rungan Landscape The goal is to protect natural resources from degradation and deforestation while at the same time encouraging people to access the forests and improve sustainable livelihoods so that economic BNF calls for joint efforts to preserve the Rungan Landscape Rungan Landscape Borneo Nature Foundation Initiating orangutan conservation in the Rungan Landscape A race against time Saving the Rungan forest Rungan River orangutan island tours Jungle of Kalimantan at The Rungan Landscape is situated between two giant rivers Rungan and Kahayan and stretches across three districts Palangka Raya Gunung Mas and Pulang Pisau BNF surveyed the landscape and our preliminary results indicate that the Rungan forest contains a large population of orangutans currently estimated at between 2220 and 3275 Rungan River Save the Orangutans New Land Rungan is a lush area in Central Kalimantan that gets its life force from the grand Rungan River The area is home to both local communities along the river as well as a large amount of animal and plant species in the surrounding rainforest It is estimated that about 3000 wild orangutans live in the canopy of the Rungan forest After 12 years 5416 hectares of Rungan traditional forest in Central Making waves with sound in Borneo K kode remot baoji Lisa Yang Center for
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