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Trees being felled in Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of Borneo, in 2013, to make way for a new coal mining project Deforestation in Borneo has taken place on an industrial scale since the 1960s. Borneo , the third largest island in the world, divided between Indonesia , Malaysia and Brunei , was once covered by dense tropical and subtropical ...
The Directorate General of Nature Resources and Ecosystem Conservation (Indonesian: Direktorat Jenderal Konservasi Sumber Daya Alam dan Ekosistem, also known as Ditjen KSDAE) is a directorate general under the Ministry of Environment and Forestry of the Republic of Indonesia.
Wehea Forest is a 38,000 ha rainforest located in East Kutai Regency, East Kalimantan, Borneo.Wehea was declared a protected forest in 2004 by the Wehea Dayak. [1] This project received the Kalpataru Award in 2009, Indonesia's highest environmental honor. [2]
Betung Kerihun National Park (Indonesian: Taman Nasional Betung Kerihun) [a] is a national park located in the Indonesian province of West Kalimantan, on the island of Borneo. The park was established in 1995, and has a total area of 8,000 km 2 (3,100 sq mi) or about 5.5 percent of West Kalimantan Province area.
The definition that has been widely accepted across regional and global frameworks has been provided by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in its categorisation guidelines for protected areas.
Balikpapan is a seaport city in East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Located on the east coast of the island of Borneo, the city is the financial center of Kalimantan. [6] Balikpapan is the city with the largest economy in Kalimantan with an estimated 2016 GDP at Rp 73.18 trillion. [7] The city is served by Sultan Aji Muhammad Sulaiman Sepinggan Airport ...
Yellow-vented bulbul, one of the 137 species of birds now found at Samboja Lestari. Samboja Lestari is a Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) rescue and rehabilitation centre, tropical rainforest restoration project, sun bear sanctuary, and eco-lodge [1] located in the district of Samboja in Kutai Kartanegara Regency, East Kalimantan, Indonesia, [2] owned and operated by the Borneo Orangutan ...
The 1997 group of forest fires in Indonesia that lasted well into 1998 were probably among the two or three, if not the largest, forest fires group in the last two centuries of recorded history.