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March 2010

Local community supports hornbill research and conservation

Research team member, Musadat discussing hornbills with Pak Ajer

 We were recently visited by a local indigenous community member with the exciting news that a hornbill nest had been found. This is part of a scheme that pays local community members for providing information on hornbill nests so we can then monitor their breeding behaviour.  Thanks to Pak Ajer we were taken to a nest tree that turned out to contain a female Bushy-crested Hornbill  Anorrhinus galeritus and at least one chick.  When ready to lay eggs, the female will seal herself into a tree hole using mud, leaving a small hole through which she can receive food. 

 

Boost for indigenous people and rare wildlife of Harapan Rainforest

Indigenous family Last night, the RSPB’s Chief Executive Graham Wynne and Head of Global Programmes Dieter Hoffmann were in Berlin to welcome major German government funding and the backing of NABU, the German BirdLife partner, for the ground-breaking Harapan Rainforest project in Sumatra. They were joined by representatives of Burung Indonesia and Yayasan KEHI, the implementing agency for the Harapan Rainforest project.