Community Conservation
and Ecotourism Agreement
PE and customary landowners on Waigeo Island in
the fabled Raja Ampat archipelago of eastern Indonesia proudly announced
that, as of January 1, 2009, they have entered into an ambitious
and innovative five-year pilot agreement to preserve for future
generations, the entire Orobiai River catchment in Waigeo's eastern
half: 92 square kilometers of virtually untouched primary forest,
set in visually stunning topography, and teeming with spectacular
yet globally threatened wildlife.
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Vogelkop Bowerbird
comes to ‘Life’
During the period September 3 to October 8, 2008
PE assisted a production team of the acclaimed BBC Natural History
Unit (Bristol, UK) in order to film the remarkable Vogelkop Bowerbird
Amblyornis inornatus up-close and personal in a remote
region of the Arfak Mountains on the Bird’s Head Peninsula. Meet
the little wonder that cameraman Barrie Britton daily zoomed into
through his viewfinder, often in total amazement.
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Endangered brush-turkey photographed
From March 18 till April 9, 2007 PE resident birders
Iwein Mauro and Zeth Wonggor guided British bird watcher Charles
Davies on an exploratory bird tour to Mount Danai on Waigeo Island,
and comfortably sat him down in a hide located just four meters
away from an active nest mound of Bruijn's Brush-turkey Aepypodius
bruijnii. The mound-tending male and a soliciting female performed,
and the group was in the fortunate opportunity to secure the first
photographs in the wild of this nearly mythical species, which was
only first tracked down in the field as recently as 2002 by Mauro
on Mount Nok.
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