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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]
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.
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 Kahayan River through the city of Palangka Raya.. The name Palangka Raya is a combination of two words from two languages: palangka (Dayak Ngaju), meaning sacred site, and raya (), meaning vast; therefore, Palangka Raya means a vast sacred site.
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 ...
Baning Nature Tourist Park is a Nature Park located at Sintang Regency of West Kalimantan province of Indonesia in the island of Borneo. It is spread over an area of about 315 hectares. It is the only natural tropical forests in Indonesia which is situated with the vicinity of locality.