Do scientists need to blog?

I was out in Samarinda last week. A city in East Kalimantan, in the land of most remained forests in Indonesia but also has the issue of land conversion to oil palm plantation and mining. It turned out that last week popular issue was an article on K-index. Thanks to Felicia, one of the young…

Another blog at your service

Since my last post about Ecosystem Service, I encouraged myself to create a new blog.  But I shared this blog with my students and colleagues.  The project itself was started in 2012 at the edge of Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park, in Lampung, Sumatera.  I am hoping that the new blog tells more about biodiversity…

Ecosystem service is at your garden

At this age of climate change, incentives scheme to sustain the forest such as REDD+ and Payment for Ecosystem Service (PES) are quite a breakthrough. Everybody is talking about this, from one meeting to another, from one training to another.  But does the people really know about it? We got clean air and water…..What else?…

Cooking on the edge: conservation starts from good meal!

You got no choice on your packed lunchbox and your daily meals when you are staying in the forest and do some conservation fieldwork. Practicality is the key. People need to go to the forest as early as the sunrise to do the survey and go back to the camp feeling exhausted in the afternoon…

A different citiwalk, a birdwalk

Birdwatching in a city is definitely unpopular, particularly when you talked about Jakarta, one of the most populated cities in the world. Once I uploaded my story of my recent birdwatching activity in the center of Jakarta, I received a suggestion to visit another birdwatching site up in the mountains. Sigh…. To most birdwatchers, seeing…