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Collecting data through interviewing local experts living alongside wildlife allows us to gain a better understanding of the wildlife we help conserve. We call this method Pooling Local Export Opinions and we compared it to our more traditional methods of studying wildlife. See how they compare in this blog!

Our agriculture program has bee-n with us from the bee-ginning but last year we developed it further. Now villagers can benefit from a sustainable agriculture course consisting of four levels to ensure villagers can smoothly transition and most importantly gain the expertise to maintain their sustainable agriculture systems. Read more to reveal an exciting new update, we’ve hidden some clues in this description - see if you can guess what it’s about.

To assess whether we were preventing biodiversity loss was proving to be an immense challenge because most of the currently existing methods of surveying population densities was extremely inefficient. We’ll be implementing the PLEO method this year to combat the problems we face with transect surveys. Read this blogpost to get the full lowdown on the why and how.

We’re launching a rifle and chainsaw buyback program inspired by the success of similar initiatives that have been proven effective in ... This blogpost starts by explaining the problems plaguing local communities. Skip to the middle of the article if you want to read how the rifle and chainsaw program will fit into our overall mission of empowering local communities, for example injecting some much needed financial resources.

Last time we shared how we build the foundations for our wildlife and environment conservation work, this time we’ll show you the exciting bits of what happens after. Read to join our Biodiversity Team on their latest field trip so you can see for yourself what working in the Borneo Rainforest is like and what it takes to protect an endangered species. Continue reading and we’ll explain some of the politics that make mass environmental destruction possible and what we’re doing to unravel the decades long legacies of poor policy to help the people of Indonesia re-write a brighter, more sustainable future.