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Read stories about our work in Indonesia.
Komodo National Park: Ecotourism and Better Alternatives for Local People
The Conservancy and partners have helped bring Komodo National Park back from the brink of depletion. The creative stratagies being employed are protecting biodiversity and enabling local people to benefit from the park in sustainable ways.
Read more about the Conservancy's work for people and nature in Komodo National Park in a Q&A with Rili Djohani, director of The Nature Conservancy in Indonesia.
Learn more in Nature Conservancy Magazine about how new livelihoods are reviving the economy and ecology of Komodo.
Confronting Climate Change in Berau, Indonesia
The destruction of Indonesia's forests produces 80 percent of carbon emissions in the country. But Indonesia is now working to develop a unique nationwide program that will use forest conservation to directly lower its carbon emissions and combat climate change.
Halmahera Expedition
A team of top marine scientists embarked on a journey to uncharted waters on the outer edge of the Coral Triangle.
Find out what made these scientists "yahoo" with excitement as they explored Halmahera.
Learn more about the Halmahera expedition and the lead scientist Alison Green.
Long-Tailed Macaques Spotted Catching Fish
Nature Conservancy scientist Erik Meijaard and other researchers are the first to scientifically document long-tailed macaques fishing with their bare hands.
Learning from Mistakes: Conserving the Lesan
Find out how the Conservancy learned to think bigger about protecting critical habitat along the Lesan River.
Can Carbon Markets Save Orangutans?
Learn how orangutans and carbon markets are linked and how mechanisms of carbon markets can make conserving orangutan habitats financially attractive.
Postcards from the Field: An Expedition to Borneo
The Conservancy launched a month-long biological expedition to the caves of East Kalimantan in Indonesia to discover and document these strange new creatures.
Postcards from the Field: At the Ends of the Earth in Raja Ampat.
Learn about the 22 day scientific expedition to the Raja Ampat islands, located west of Papua, Indonesia. Over half of all known coral species are found in Raja Ampat.
In Search of Orangutans: East Kalimatan
Read a letter home from a Conservancy team member on an adventure in the rainforests of Borneo where they went in search, and found, the elusive orangutan.
A New Frontier: East Kalimantan
Travel along with Conservancy scientists as they survey some of the world's last remaining orangutan populations.
Dragons and Mantas and Sharks, Oh My...
Join one Conservancy donor as she explores Komodo National Park and learns what the Conservancy is doing to protect the rich diversity in the region.
Nature picture credits (top to bottom, left to right): Photo © Marthen Welly/TNC (Raja Ampat-Papua, Indonesia); Photo © Mark Godfrey/TNC (Orangutan nest survey, Lesan River in the forest of East Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia).
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