Developing a park co-management team OFI, in conjunction with World Education, began work on its second USAID grant in October 2003. One of OFI and World Education’s goals is to further develop an effective co-management team for Tanjung Puting National Park (TPNP). One primary aim of the co-management team is to expand the size of the area inside TPNP regularly patrolled and protected. The most prudent, efficient, and sustainable way of achieving this goal is [...]

  Tanjung Puting National Park   Guard Post, Patrols, USAID, by Dr. Birutė Mary Galdikas.

Police Officer Taken by Crocodile While Defending Tanjung Puting National Park in Indonesian Borneo. Pangkalan Bun, Kalimantan Tengah, Indonesia – (July 31, 2000) – Police Sergeant Ali Maryanto, 37 year-old father of two boys, aged 7 and 9 years, died defending Tanjung Puting National Park’s Sekonyer Kanan River. Sergeant Ali Maryanto was stationed as one of ten police officers on a chartered boat protecting the mouth of the Sekonyer Kanan River. This tributary of the [...]

  Field Update, Tanjung Puting National Park   Patrols, by Dr. Gary Shapiro.