SUARAKAN ALAM LEWAT LENSAMU! PELATIHAN FOTOGRAFI UNTUK KELESTARIAN ALAM

PRESS RELEASE

Kontak:                                                                                                                  Petungkriono, 15 September 2014

Arif Setiawan

wawan5361@gmail.com

Annisa

c.nur.annisa@gmail.com

www.swaraowa.blogspot.com

twitter : @swaraowa

SUARAKAN ALAM LEWAT LENSAMU!

PELATIHAN FOTOGRAFI UNTUK KELESTARIAN ALAM

Petungkriono. Kelompok Studi dan Pemerhati Primata Yogyakarta  akan menyelenggarakan kegiatan Pelatihan Fotografi Alam. Kegiatan yang bertema ‘Blitz ur wilderness! Suarakan alam lewat lensamu!’ ini merupakan bagian dari program  pelestarian  Owajawa dan habitatnya di wilayah hutan Petungkriono, Pekalongan, Jawa Tengah. Kegiatan bertujuan untuk promosi konservasi primata yang terancam punah dan juga sebagai upaya peningkatan kapasitas masyarakat sekitar kawasan habitat primata, menambah pengetahuan, meningkatkan kesadaran akan kelestarian alam, dan membangun jaringan pegiat konservasi, khususnya primata dan habitatnya yang masih ada di wilayah kabupaten Pekalongan. Kegiatan pelatihan ini  akan diselenggarakan langsung di kawasan desa hutan yaitu desa Kayupuring Kecamatan Petungkriyono pada tanggal 20-21 September 2014. Sasaran kegiatan ini khususnya para pelajar SMA se-Kabupaten Pekalongan yang ditunjuk untuk berpartisipasi tanpa dipungut biaya apapun dan merupakan rangkaian kegiatan “Gibbon School days” yang telah dilaksanakan sebelumnya . Pelatihan ini dibuka pula untuk instansi terkait dan publik yang tertarik dengan memberi kontribusi yang telah ditentukan.

Pelatihan ini akan diisi oleh pemateri yang kompeten di bidangnya, Dr. M Ali Imron, (pengajar, peneliti Satwaliar di Fakultas Kehutanan Universitas Gadjah Mada)  Swiss Winasis (fotografer alam liar, peneliti dari Taman Nasional Baluran, dan Regina Safri (Jurnalist foto, penulis Orangutan Rhymes and Blues) akan membimbing langsung peserta. Selama dua hari peserta akan diajak pula berinteraksi langsung dengan obyek fotografi, yaitu alam dan hutan  Petungkriono. Jika beruntung peserta dapat berjumpa dengan satwa liar seperti Owa jawa, Lutung, Rekrekan,Monyet ekor panjang, Binturong, Luwak, Elang, dan satwaliar lainnya.

Annisa selaku koordinator acara ini menyebutkan bahwa Training Fotografi Alam sengaja tidak mengambil tempat di kota agar peserta dapat merasakan langsung alam sekitar yang merupakan obyek fotografi. Kegiatan ini juga bertujuan untuk menanamkan kecintaan terhadap alam lingkungan  melalui fotografi sehingga dapat memberi kesadaran akan arti pentingnya konservasi alam. TOR kegiatan ini dapat di baca di link berikut ini : https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B14jOutVwOB1ZFMtR0ZBRXJ1MU0&usp=sharing

Kelompok Studi dan Pemerhati Primata Yogyakarta (KSPPY) sendiri adalah organisasi yang dibentuk berdasarkan ketertarikan para individu terhadap kelestarian  primata dan habitatnya terutama primata endemik Jawa, Owa Jawa (Hylobates moloch). Dan melalui project “Coffee and Primate Conservation” telah dan sedang berkegiatan di wilayah Petungkriono melakukan penelitian dan pengembangan komunitas sekitar hutan untuk terlibat langsung dalam pelestarian primata dan habitatnya. Untuk project ini bisa dibaca lebih lanjut di sini : http://swaraowa.blogspot.com/2014/09/coffee-and-primate-conservation.html

Coffee and Primate Conservation

Central Java, Indonesia, forest fragmentation and degradation in the gibbon’s habitat is the main problems, due to economic problems, people near by the forest encroaching the forest for their income. Coffee is one of the commodities in Petungkriono district, however the value coffee is very low and doesn’t have any additional value towards farmer near by the forest. Forest-Coffee , its shade grown coffee planted by villagers in Sokokembang village, people planted coffee under natural shade of forest trees where Javan gibbon and other javan endemic primates lived there naturally. It has been practiced since many years ago by villagers. These coffees are grown in the wild and processed traditionally by villagers at Sokokembang. Coffee production techniques in Sokokembang that preserve natural trees as shade trees, have important consequence for conservation of Javan gibbon habitat and other endemic species.

 In this project we have been  doing  scientific research and conservation awareness activities combine with community empowerment to conserve Javan gibbon (Hylobates moloch) and its habitat in Petungkriono district, Pekalongan regency, especially Sokokembang village for pilot project. We have bee enhance economic value of forest coffee through building capacity of coffee farmer, enhance their knowledge on coffee processing and develop coffee and conservation marketing strategy.

We have been work since 2007 with people of javan gibbon habitat ( read reports and publications) for primate ecological study, and intensively work with community in 2012, some result showed that rain forest products are soo precious as we thought before, and its really important to support people livelihood surrounding the forest, indeed. However some of them need to be enhanced for the quality, offcourse we have to assist to penetrate the market too. We have already some rainforest products, such as shade grown coffee, palm sugar, and fruity-forest syrup. As sustainable rule that we have been applied, all the profits from the products will go directly to support endangered primates conservation activities and forest coffee farmers as well in this region. These products can be purchased by order to our emails : c.nur.annisa (at) gmail.com; wawan5361 (at)gmail.com

Coffee and Primate Conservation : a cup of java for gibbon

The title above is  oral presentation title during International Primatological  Society XXV Congress in Hanoi, Vietnam 11-17 Agustus 2014. Abstract for this presentation can be read here. The presentation is about our field work "Coffee and Primate Conservation Project" activities in Central Java. Please contact the author personally for further information.

Its largest meeting  in the field of primatology, where we can share information about primate research and conservation, meet the expert, funding agency and develop professional network for primate study and conservation.

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We also joined in to the post congress of IPS, in Bogor 18-22 August, here about the meeting information and we also give a talk about our project in Sokokembang forest. There are two other poster presentation from our project activities, presented by our project team member. Read here  http://www.sea-primate.org/pdf/ecology/Aryanti.Ecology.pdf

 and http://www.sea-primate.org/pdf/Annisa.Conservation.pdf for the abstracts.

We would like to thanks to Conservation International, Margoth Marsh Biodiversity Foundation, and IUCN Primate SSC for the travel grant to attend the IPS meeting in Vietnam.

Sokokembang Rainforest Sound Recording

Sokokembang forest, provide source of inspiration and ideas. Here some result from our field work in the Javan gibbon habitat, Sokokembang forest, Petungkriyono,Pekalongan, Central Java, Indonesia.Gibbons, leaf monkeys, insect, birds,winds, and people activities are amazing,AWESOME!! all creating sounds,and offcourse they have their own ways to talk, talk with us ..(maybe).
Enjoy!!

Javan gibbon ecological study and Monitoring,in Sokokembang forest.

recording the gibbon calls

A longterm study about Javan gibbon and its ecology we called “Javan gibbon remote monitoring network” have been initiated in Sokokembang forest, Central Java, Indonesia. The Javan gibbon with their unique behavior have been studied, by its calling behavior for population monitoring. The specific aim is to provide scientific information on Javan gibbon acoustic behavior,  to know their population dynamic and we will use this result to raise conservation awareness,  broadcast the recorded calls  and other  rainforest  sound recording to world wide through the website.

Starting at March 2014 we have set a tree house for javan gibbon monitoring, and monitoring activities conducted monthly in four consecutive days. Set of directional microphone and smartphone have been used to record calling of the gibbon. Here for example of the result :

recording equipments

Participatory Biodiversity Mapping, at Javan gibbon’s village, Kayupuring, Central Java, Indonesia

One of the problems to raise awareness about forest and primate conservation in Javan gibbon’s habitat are very limited information even more there is no baseline species diversity, ecology, spatial location and conservation status of the protected species. All these information are useful if we use to talk with people in the village to motivate them to conserve their biodiversity actually. The specific aim of this activities are to mine information about biodiversity especially wildlife that usually found in Kayupuring village area’s based on community knowledge and their field observation, and we add more detail information on their basic ecology and its conservation status, then we present on the village biodiversity map.

This program is a part of Our Coffee and Primate Conservation Project that funded by Fortwayne Children Zoo and Singapore Zoo, cooperation with Wildlife Lab, Forest Resource Conservation Dept, Faculty of Forestry, Gadjah Mada University, of Yogyakarta. Located at Kayupuring village, on 17-19 June 2014, we have meeting series and guided by GIS expert from the university to discuss about wildlife that usually found in their village and forest, than we ask them to describe as clear as possible based on their field observation and we match this information to the field guide book as scientific clarification. And finally we use Google earth, to map wildlife encounter by the villagers.

Participants of Participatory biodiversity Mapping

GIS experts and wildlife ecologist from Gadjah Mada University giving a talk.

The 2nd Primate Survey Training, Sokokembang 9-11 June 2014

This activities was initiated last year in 2013, where we realize that primate conservation should be based on scientific information. And actually there is a problems to conserve endangered primate and its habitat in central java , that we lack of capacity and knowledge about primate survey method. 

Thus , the training aims are :1 to raise and encourage young primate researchers and conservationist in central Java. 2. To enhance knowledge and technical experience on field primate survey. 3. To establish professional network among young primatologist in central java.

Totally 21 participants,  were joint in 3 days training in Sokokembang (see photo.1), they are come from university students, forestry government staff ,Journalist, and local NGO  from surrounding javan gibbon habitat in central java

2014 training participants 

In this training, we introduce two methods that can be applied in the  field for primate survey training, i.e “line transect” and “vocal count-triangulation” especially for gibbon survey. The training including room discussion, field practice (data collection) and its data analysis.

During the training we also received coverage from national newspaper, and published at  11 June 2014 (photo.2).

newspaper coverage about the primate survey training in Sokokembang forest