Volunteer

"CAN has three approaches to Conservation Program it is Restoration Forest, Build Ecotourm Village, Helping local communities. There are 2 of our project sites located in East Kalimantan"

Merasa Village :

Where we have a restoration camp area and a plot for the agroforestry program. This program is part of the strategy to protect protected forests and research Labanan from the high forest conversion for agriculture. Other program in the village of Merasa is to build ecotourism to protect the karst mountain landscape and protecting the historical site of the Dayak tribe which is in the kars cave.

Lesan Dayak Village :

In this location we collaborate with the community to protect the Protected Forest Lesan which is the habitat of orangutans Our volunteering activities are focussed at Merasa Village mainly at Long Deq Basecamp Restoration area. Here you’ll help us with a variety of activities, please have a look under our volunteering activities list for more information. If you have specific interests or skills please talk to our staff about how you may be able to assist.

Our strategy in project is quite unique. Instead of focusing our efforts within the protecting area, we have chosen to develop the villages around the protection area in the hopes that we can offer environmentally friendly economic opportunities as alternatives to what is offered by the palm oil industry. and coal mining to achieve this, we provide jobs to the local community in forest and land restoration, a strategy that has worked quite successfully. We have been able to turn the destroyers of the forest into protectors of the forest.

All of our staff members are locals and we also hire seasonal workers from local villages to help with large forestation efforts. Our saplings all come from a farmer’s cooperative group that is completely staffed by local employees. And many of our former employees, with improved qualifications from their time with CAN, have gone on to work as tour guides, motoris boat or other positions within the eco-tourism industry; jobs which celebrate the environment, not profit off of its destruction.

"As part of our strategy to develop local villages in order to preserve forests, we also focus on educating the youngest community members about the importance of conservation and the environment. Our hope is that these efforts will create an environmentally conscious generation that will be committed to protecting forests in the future"

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