We are a research and conservation organisation working in Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. Our main study site in the Sabangau Forest is home to the world's largest lowland populations of Bornearn orangutans and southern Bornean gibbons.
We work at the forefront of primate research in tropical forest environments and are affiliated with the University of Palangka Raya and Universitas Muhammadiyah in Kalimantan, and British universities of Oxford Brookes and Exeter. We carry out scientific research on many aspects of orangutan, gibbon and red langur ecology and on tropical peat-swamp forest biodiversity, productivity, regeneration and restoration ecology.
In 2018, students will join us to gain first-hand experience of a tropical forest environment, work alongside enthusiastic researchers, and will receive practical training in field survey skills and biodiversity monitoring during an intensive two-week field course. Topics you will learn about include primate survey methods, peat-swamp ecology, survey methods of ecological indicator species, research and technology and threats and conservation strategies in peat-swamp forest. These two weeks will be an intensive, but exciting and rewarding experience. Students will have the chance to see some of the incredible wildlife that inhabits this special part of the world, including the charismatic orangutan in the wild.
There will be one field course in 2018 in July, with the potential for another course in June, and spaces often fill up quickly so make sure to get your application in soon. If you are interested in receiving credit from your university for the field course, please contact your university individually to discuss further. If your university does accept the course for university credit, BNF will then work together with you and the university to ensure all requirements are met. Many of our previous volunteers and students have returned to Borneo Nature Foundation as long-term research assistants or have gone on to careers and further research in biodiversity conservation.
To apply and find out more please visit: http://www.borneonaturefoundation.org/en/join/2018-sabangau-field-course/
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Jennifer Brousseau
International Visits Coordinator
Borneo Nature Foundation
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