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Remembering Elmo Drilling

12/01/2022 by Scott Nishiki 1 Comment

Last year, the world lost a conservationist who lived and breathed sustainability and conservation, Michael “Elmo” Drilling. Born and raised in Buffalo, NY, Mr. Drilling worked for the Peace Corps, USAID, and served as PRCF Director from 1996-2014, later rejoining PRCF from 2018 until his passing. His work took him from the jungles of Kalimantan […]

Filed Under: News, PRCF, PRCF Feature Post, Uncategorized Tagged With: Michael Elmo Drilling, PRCF staff

Our Commitment to Biodiversity

22/11/2021 by Fernando Leave a Comment

This past month world leaders gathered together at the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties to discuss collective solutions towards combating climate change. We at PRCF acknowledge with concern the increasing threats to global ecosystems and that a change of behavior is needed. At stake is the permanent loss of the Earth’s […]

Filed Under: News, PRCF, PRCF Feature Post, Upcoming Projects, Upcoming Projects Feature Post Tagged With: Biodiversity Conservation Program, Borneo, Commitment to Biodiversity, Indonesia, Kalimantan, People Resources and Conservation Foundation, PRCF, PRCF Vietnam, Vietnam

PRCF Indonesia team among 108 Noteworthy Practices

29/10/2021 by Fernando Leave a Comment

West Kalimantan Patrol

Congratulations to Pak Imanul Huda, PRCF Indonesia Director, and the PRCF Indonesia team for their selection asone of the “108 Noteworthy Practices” for their work in “Creating Community Forestry and Enabling Long-term Stewardship of High Biodiversity Value Forests” at the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of Parties for the Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD). Pak […]

Filed Under: Indonesia, Indonesia Feature Post, News, PRCF, PRCF Feature Post Tagged With: 100+ Noteworthy Practices, 108 Noteworthy Practices, Borneo, Community Foresty, Imanul Huda, Indonesia, Kalimantan, People Resources and Conservation Foundation, PRCF

A win for weavers: community entrepreneurship prize

02/07/2014 by Simi Bhagwandass Leave a Comment

PRCF Indonesia Associate, Fifiyati Hoesni, has been awarded a community entrepreneurship prize for her dedication to the Dayak weaving project in Indonesian Borneo. ‘Dayak’ is a loose term for the indigenous peoples of Borneo. Weaving, an ancestral art form practiced mainly by older Dayak women, is under threat of extinction because younger generations are leaving […]

Filed Under: Indonesia, Indonesia Feature Post, PRCF Feature Post Tagged With: art, Arthur Guiness Fund, Borneo, British Council, community, culture, Dayak, entrepreneurship, indigenous, Indonesia, People Resources and Conservation Foundation, weaving

Help save the endangered Francois’ Langur

21/06/2013 by Fernando Leave a Comment

The endangered Francois’ Langur is one of PRCF Vietnam’s flagship species. We have confirmed several groups of this threatened primate living in an isolated limestone karst forest in the northern mountainous region of Tuyen Quango province.  Perhaps the last viable population of the langur in Vietnam, urgent on-ground action is now needed to help protect […]

Filed Under: Campaigns, Vietnam Tagged With: conservation, endangered, Francois' Langur, habitat, Lam Binh, PRCF Vietnam, species, Vietnam

Lam Binh community sends strong message to poachers

10/03/2013 by Brenda Mattick Leave a Comment

In February 2013 our partner Save Our Species featured an updated account about PRCF field coordinator Tu Minh Tiep’s role in capturing a wildlife hunter in northern Vietnam. SOS is a global coalition to conserve threatened species and their habitats. PRCF’s collaboration with SOS to protect the Francois langur’ began in 2011. The article titled Lam Binh community sends […]

Filed Under: Vietnam Tagged With: animal bones, Decree 32 species, Forest Protection Department, Francois' Langur, Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources, Lam Binh, Lam Binh District Police, langur, Lung Chu valley, macaque, PRCF Vietnam, role play, serow, small loris, Trachypithecus francoisi, Tu Minh Tiep, Tuyen Quang province, Vietnam

PRCF photo contest winners

02/08/2012 by Fernando Leave a Comment

Congratulations to the two winners of our Where are all the Wild Things? photo contest. Renee Bell’s photo of a pangolin won first prize based on the number of Facebook ‘Likes’. Second place was won by Christine Rehman for her ‘backyard bear’ photo. This was our first photo contest, designed to celebrate PRCF’s 17th birthday […]

Filed Under: Campaigns, PRCF Tagged With: photo, photo competition, PRCF, wildlife

Community conservation: 3D mapping

13/07/2012 by Brenda Mattick Leave a Comment

PRCF Vietnam’s three-dimensional mapping project in the Lam Binh Forest area, northeastern Vietnam, involved 30 local people from seven villages. Their energy and enthusiasm – and the high standard of their very first 3D map – helped make this a very successful community conservation activity.

Filed Under: Vietnam Tagged With: 3D map, 3D mapping, community conservation, environmental education, Francois' Langur, karst, Lam Binh Forest area, land-use mapping, PRCF Vietnam, Thach Mai Hoang, three-dimensional mapping, Trachypithecus francoisi, Vietnam, Vietnam Forest Protection Department

Community conservation: 3D mapping

13/07/2012 by Brenda Mattick Leave a Comment

PRCF Vietnam’s three-dimensional mapping project in the Lam Binh Forest area, northeastern Vietnam, involved 30 local people from seven villages. Their energy and enthusiasm – and the high standard of their very first 3D map – helped make this a very successful community conservation activity.

Filed Under: Vietnam Tagged With: 3D map, 3D mapping, community conservation, environmental education, Francois' Langur, karst, Lam Binh Forest area, land-use mapping, PRCF Vietnam, Thach Mai Hoang, three-dimensional mapping, Trachypithecus francoisi, Vietnam, Vietnam Forest Protection Department

NOW CLOSED: Where are all the Wild Things? Photo Contest

22/05/2012 by Fernando Leave a Comment

Enter our first photo contest to celebrate PRCF’s 17th birthday and help us continue our vital work: conserving the world’s precious wildlife, in the wild.

Filed Under: Campaigns Tagged With: photo, photo competition, PRCF, wildlife

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