At PRCF we realize that local communities are integral to the success of nature conservation. We advocate community participation and discourage activities that negatively affect the natural environment or erode cultural identity.
Our members strive to conserve biodiversity, ecosystem services, and local cultural identities through participatory solutions that protect and promote the wise use of natural resources, support socioeconomic development of communities, and enable adaptation to climate change.
Strong community participation, combined with PRCF’s long-term experience and technical capacities, enables us to develop and carry out innovative, site-specific conservation management strategies.
The result is projects that involve, empower, and benefit local community stakeholders, while promoting the conservation of biodiversity, especially species threatened with global extinction.
PRCF operates in diverse landscapes recognized for their high conservation value, characterized by the presence of endangered plant and animal species. These areas also offer opportunities to actively involve local, resource-dependent communities in the sustainable conservation and management of natural resources and ecosystems.
Since 1995, PRCF has worked to secure the fringe forests around the Heart of Borneo, upstream of Indonesia´s longest river – the Kapuas. PRCF empowers local forest-dependent communities by securing legal forest management rights and ensuring more than twenty years of finance for nature conservation and community development.
In northern Vietnam, PRCF works in two karst landscapes; the Ba Be/ Na Hang Karst Forest Complex and the Cao Vit Gibbon Conservation Area. These two landscapes hold several threatened species, including three globally endangered primates: the Cao Vit Gibbon, Tonkin Snub-nosed Monkey, and François’ Langur.
Stretching from the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh into the forested hills of Northeast India. This area forms the westernmost edge of the Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot merging into the Eastern Himalayas; a mosaic of rich but fragile forest ecosystems.
In North Sumatra, PRCF works at two sites. One is the famous Batang Toru Forest Ecosystem, home of the world’s most threatened great ape – the Tapanuli Orangutan. The second site is an internationally poorly-known area, a biodiversity treasure called the Hadabuan Hills. Both areas are significant for global biodiversity and were connected by rich forest a mere two to three decades ago.
Within the Central Annamite Ecoregion of Vietnam, an area of high species endemism, PRCF is establishing biodiversity corridors in the Kon Ha Nung Biosphere Reserve to bring benefits to people and wildlife.
Since 1995, PRCF has worked to secure the fringe forests around the Heart of Borneo, upstream of Indonesia´s longest river – the Kapuas. PRCF empowers local forest-dependent communities by securing legal management rights and ensuring more than twenty years of finance for nature conservation and community development.
In North Sumatra, PRCF works at two sites. One is the Batang Toru Forest Ecosystem, home of the world’s most threatened great ape – the Tapanuli Orangutan. The second site is an internationally poorly known biodiversity treasure called the Hadabuan Hills. Both areas are significant for global biodiversity, and were connected by rich forests a mere two-three decades ago.
The PRCF and Gia Lai government are establishing a biodiversity corridor in Vietnam’s Central Annamite Ecoregion to connect Khon Ka King National Park and Khon Chu Ran Nature Reserve. The project protects habitats for endangered and endemic species, boosts ecosystem connectivity, involves local Bana communities in co-management, and promotes sustainable livelihoods and conservation benefits for people and wildlife.
Since 1995, PRCF has worked with villages along Borneo’s Upper Kapuas River to secure their forests from external pressures while supporting the development of sustainable livelihoods.
In North Sumatra PRCF is engaged at two sites. One is the now famous Batang Toru Forest Ecosystem, habitat for the most endangered great ape – the Tapanuli Orangutan. The second site is an internationally unknown biodiversity treasure known under the name Hadabuan Hills. Both areas hold tremendous conservation significance and a mere 2-3 decades ago they were connected.
Within the Central Annamite Ecoregion, PRCF is establishing biodiversity corridors in the Kon Ha Nung Biosphere Reserve to bring benefits to people and wildlife.
