INTEGRATING ECOLOGICAL & ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH TO DEVELOP EFFECTIVE CONSERVATION IN THE THREATENED RUNGAN LANDSCAPE
On July 2 – 4 2019, our collaborative team – representing conservation scientists and practitioners from the Borneo Nature Foundation (BNF), Universitas Muhammadiyah Palangkaraya (UMP), the University of Exeter, Rutgers University, Cornell University, and Brunel University – co-led a two-day interactive event to bring together interdisciplinary perspectives and diverse stakeholders to support conservation. Our conservation research program targets the Rungan landscape in Central Kalimantan, a 135,000-ha area comprising diverse primary and secondary habitats within a matrix of human activities. Our event aimed to strengthen, expand, and promote the findings of the Rungan conservation program and further collaborative research through an international research symposium and training workshops.
