Environmental
Content Creator
Environmental
Content Creator
Environmental
Content Creator
Environmental
Content Creator
Environmental
Content Creator
Rhino Poaching Crisis
October 2019
I have been dreaming about coming to @careforwild for a really long time. CFW is on a mission to save rhinos from extinction and I was extremely proud and beyond excited to join them and @conservationace team for a month. I was volunteering, assisting with daily cleaning, feeding, and doing maintenance as well as documenting everything that happens here to raise awareness on rhino crisis and tell a wider audience about the amazing work that those organizations are doing here.
I always knew about the problem with illegal poaching and hunting but didn't really know much about the rhino crisis until I visited a game reserve in Cape Town in 2018. Just a day before my arrival poachers killed one of the rhinos. The incident was really fresh, so everyone was talking about it. Knowing that rhino herself, our guide was very emotional when talking about rhino numbers going down and why.
This is when I decided that I want to join @conservationace to learn more, help and raise awareness about it on my socials.
@careforwild pays incredible attention to education here: documentaries, participation in discussions, listening to presentations, learning shocking information that gives you goosebumps. So my role here was to present that information to people and make them learn and act.
Reforestation of Borneo
November 2018
We spent a week on the boat in Borneo, in heat, sweat, 80% of humidity, with no service and shower all sleeping on the deck right in the middle of the jungle, cruising through Sekonyer river, watching orangutans, gibbons, proboscis monkeys and crocs.
I got to participate in the reforestation project of Borneo mangroves and support the Ministry of Forestry on this mission. Incredible feeling to know that somewhere on the other side of the world there will be a tree that hopefully in a few years will be supplying food for orangutans that desperately need our support right now.
There I met orangutans! In the wild! I got to see families with babies happily roaming around, swinging on the trees, and playing with each other and food. Lucky me, and how unlucky might be our next generation who might not be able to witness those majestic creatures due to deforestation mainly because of palm oil plantations.
Some of the shocking info that I learned is that in the last decade population of orangutangs decreased by more than 70% and they are listed right now as critically endangered.
Indonesia’s president has signed a moratorium on new palm oil development and ordered a review of existing plantations which might help with the situation or might just displace forest and species destruction to other areas. The government already has done its step so now it is our turn. Palm oil is everywhere from cosmetics to snacks and it is not easy to eliminate it from our life completely, but acknowledging the problem is already half of the success.
My role in this campaign was to showcase the beauty of Borneo and Indonesia to increase responsible tourism in the area as well as highlight important changes that the government has implemented in the area to maintain biodiversity.
