Samboja Lestari

Local nameSamboja Lestari
LocationSungai Seluang, Indonesia

Samboja Lestari is an area of restored tropical rainforest near the city of Balikpapan in East Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia, created by the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation led by Dr Willie Smits, with the aim of providing a safe haven for rehabilitated orangutans while at the same time providing a source of income for local people. According to Smits' talks for Qi Global and TED, Samboja Lestari has evolved on the principles of People, Planet, Profit, linking community and empowerment and capacity-building with promoting economic development and conservation. Located about 38 kilometers from East Kalimantan's biggest city, Balikpapan, and 87 kilometer from its capital, Samarinda.

The project covers nearly 2,000 hectares of deforested, degraded and burnt land. In 2001 BOS began purchasing land near Samboja that, like much of the deforested land in Borneo, had been by impoverished by mechanical logging, drought and severe fires and was now covered in alang-alang grass.

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More information and contact

Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samboja_Lestari

Official website of Samboja Lodge http://www.sambojalodge.com/AboutBOSFoundation/BOSSambojaLestari/

Phone +62 821 5133 3773

Address 75271, Indonesia

Coordinates -1°0'32.825" N 117°2'51.475" E

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