Bangkaru’s beaches are home to the largest nesting site for Green Sea Turtles in Western Indonesia, along with being an important nesting site for Leatherback and Hawksbill Turtles and its forests are home to some of the worlds rares birds. EcosystemImpact has a team of six rangers who provide constant protection of Bangkaru alongside Indonesia’s wildlife protection agency BKSDA.
Before the Bangkaru Ranger Programme was set up, turtle egg poachers sometimes took as many as 1,500 eggs a night and birds were poached from the forest. Since our involvement in 2016 EcosystemImpact and partners have reduced poaching of turtle eggs to 0 and seen a reduction to bird poaching.
