Here, you’ll find inspiring community-centered conservation stories, research highlights, and a glimpse into what’s next for Wildlife Work.

Learn more about the Gerbang Barito REDD+ Project in Indonesia's accomplishments in 2025.

Discover how the Bakumpai people of the Gerbang Barito REDD+ Project sustain identity, faith, and forest stewardship along Indonesia’s Barito River.

In this Q&A, a community shares his first-hand account of how the Kasigau REDD+ Project has transformed lives in his home region. In the face of global criticism, he saw local community member voices being ignored, which inspired him to produce a community-led film series documenting the project’s real impacts, from education and healthcare to forest protection.

Meet Ramona Sari, a community member at the Gerbang Barito REDD+ Project in Indonesia. She won the project’s first writing competition “Akar dan Kata” (Roots and Words). The goal of the competition was simple but meaningful: to create space for inclusive participation while encouraging local voices to document lived experiences, traditional knowledge, and the ties between people and nature.

Wildlife Works Reading Club, known locally as Carbon School part of the broader community engagement strategy of the Gerbang Barito REDD+ Project. By introducing environmental themes early, the program invests in future stewards of village forests. It strengthens learning spaces that belong to the community and grow with it.

The community engagement workshops at the Gerbang Barito REDD+ project have started including free child daycare, greatly increasing participation from women. This small step creates a space for more focused, and equal participation by women, while demonstrating that listening to the community also means changing the way activities are designed.

At the Gerbang Barito REDD+ Project in Indonesia, Social and Biodiversity Impact Assessment (SBIA) workshops provide a space for communities to discuss the future of their forests. Through simple questions and the visual method of a designing a tree of hope, residents discuss their dreams, challenges, and conservation solutions together. SBIA workshops are key for meaningful community engagement in voluntary carbon market projects.

In this blog, learn more about the community-based recruitment process used to create patrol teams, that are now ready to monitor, protect, and report activities in their village forests at the Gerbang Barito REDD+ Project in Indonesia.

In this blog, you'll find links to recent peer-reviewed research produced by the Wildlife Works Biodiversity and Carbon Science research teams. Together, these papers reflect our commitment to rigorous, field-based research that informs wildlife conservation, climate action, and human well-being.

Forest Reference Emission Levels (FRELs) underpin REDD+ results-based payments, yet most still rely on methods that overlook forest degradation and mask true emissions. Evidence from multiple biomes shows degradation accounts for up to three-quarters of forest emissions. This blog explores how direct biomass measurement using LiDAR and multisensor remote sensing enables accurate, auditable, and rapidly updatable FRELs aligned with UNFCCC and IPCC guidance.

Wildlife Works’ Indonesia Country Director Erlinda Ekaputri’s moving essay on the region's recent floods, and how she finds hope amidst the devastation.