We employ former poachers, from whom we have built a team of conservationists. Thanks to this, we have eliminated the hunting of endangered species in one of the regional buffer zones in the southeast of the Leuser National Park.
Program Activities
We have created a community of "Kukang Coffee" farmers who respect the ban on hunting protected species of animals, and in return, we buy coffee from them at a price that is profitable for them.
Thanks to the long-term recording of animals observed on the routes delineated according to a given methodology, we estimate the size of the slow loris populations in the defined area.
Monitoring of wild animals is used to estimate their abundance. Camera traps are an additional monitoring method we use.
We teach English and environmental education - usually neglected but much needed in Indonesia - to the children of the Bandar Baru community for free in our English-Environmental School called “Kukang School”.
We heard the plea of the community of Basukum village and helped them build their own English-environmental school for children, which we also help to run.
We spread awareness about endangered species and nature in primary and secondary schools as well as in public through lectures and outreach to farmers in several locations in northern Sumatra.
With the help of illegal wildlife trade investigators, we fight against wildlife traffickers.
Our base is the “Kukang Centre”, where the “Kukang School”, our office as well as a specialized centre for the rehabilitation of confiscated slow lorises to return them to the wild are located (rehabilitation of slow lorises is currently not in operation).
We strive to show the Indonesian people how they can professionally protect slow lorises, other wild animals, and nature as such in Indonesia themselves.
Using cooperation to create breeding centres for pygmy slow lorises within modern zoos, we are trying to support the stabilization of a sustainable backup population of this species in human care, the so-called ex situ.
