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Linking Great Ape Conservation and Poverty Alleviation: Sharing Experience from Africa and Asia
CIFOR campus, Bogor, Indonesia
11-13 January 2012
The workshop was the second of a series on “Great Apes and Poverty Linkages”, organized under the auspices of the Poverty and Conservation Learning Group (PCLG), and the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), with financial support from United States Fish and Wildlife (USFW), the United Stated Agency for International Development (USAID), the Arcus Foundation and the Great Apes Survival Partnership (GRASP). The event was hosted by CIFOR and the Forestry Research and Development Agency (FORDA) of Indonesia’s Ministry of Forestry.
Blog stories
- Rafts of rubber and a hotel for birds with spit that sells
- Formalised insurance, compensation may help mitigate human-wildlife conflicts, experts say
- Preserving peatlands benefits orangutans, makes economic sense, experts say
- Great ape conservation must be integral to REDD+, says leading primate biologist
- Golden green grunge for rare red orangutans
- Borneo's eco-stranded apes with nowhere to call home
- Game reveals complex links between poverty and threats to apes
- Millions of long lost logs and a single special tree
- Would tourists in Indonesia pay $500 to see orangutans?
- Chillies- a hot and spicy solution to human-wildlife conflict in Africa?
Media coverage
- 8 February 2012 - KORAN TEMPO
Plus-minus ekowisata kera besar - 8 February 2012 - KORAN TEMPO
Mencegah bocornya ekonomi lokal - 25 January 202 - Jakarta Globe
Save the Apes and you save the forests: Scientists - 12 January 2012 - ZAMBOTIMES
Game reveals complex links between poverty and threats to apes
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Videos
Linking Great Ape Conservation and Poverty Alleviation: Field Trip, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia
CIFOR hosted the workshop - Linking Great Ape Conservation and Poverty Alleviation, in January 2012. Great ape practitioners from Africa and Asia joined to discuss best practices and lessons learned in great ape conservation and its importance in mechanisms like REDD+ and for eco-tourism. participants visited Central Kalimantan to several orangutan conservation and research areas.
Video produced and filmed by James Maiden
Edited by Mokhamad Edliadi
Interviews by Leony Aurora
