4: Dr Bayu Wirayudha – Preservation work by FNPF Kalimantan

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FNPF Kalimantan – Helping Restore Kalimantan’s Degraded Forests by (Drh (Veterinarian) I. Gede Nyoman Bayu Wirayudha Founding Director of FNPF (Friends of the National Parks Foundation/Yayasan Pecinta Taman Nasional), Bali, Indonesia.

FNPF (Friends of the National Parks Foundation) is a non-profit organisation which works in conservation in Bali, and Kalimantan in the island of Borneo. Most of FNPF’s conservation work is focused on improving the wellbeing of local communities in ways that protect wildlife and habitat. By improving local community options for employment and income generation (through education, agro-forestry, eco-tourism, mixed and organic farming, and so on) FNPF reduce their need to work in environmentally destructive sectors such as illegal logging and mining, slash and burn farming, and palm oil cultivation. By helping local communities, FNPF win their respect, support and participation for conservation objectives.

Here, FNPF Founder and Director, Drh Bayu Wirayudha, describes the work of FNPF in Kalimantan and highlights a growing threat to their conservation efforts, annual dry season forest fires.

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Bayu holds a degree in Veterinary Medicine from Udayana University, Bali. He is the founding director of FNPF, and holds other directorships including with Yayasan Bebali, which works with traditional cultural revitalisation, and previously with the Begawan Foundation, where he oversaw the program breeding the critically endangered Bali Starling (Leucopsar rothschildi) and their subsequent release by FNPF onto Nusa Penida.

In 2003 and in 2007 Dr Bayu was nominated for Indonesia’s Kalpataru (Hero of the Earth) Award for his work with conservation. In 2007 the Bali Governor awarded him Environment Pioneer.

In addition to his NGO work, Dr. Bayu has extensive experience working closely with all levels of government and with the private sector. The quality of his work is evident in the successes FNPF has achieved, and in the trust placed in him and FNPF by organisations such as Humane Society International, the Gibbon Foundation, Boeing Aerospace, US Fish and Wildlife Service, and AusAID (the Australian government’s international aid department). Dr. Bayu provides vital leadership and oversight to FNPF.

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