One year of the pandemic has passed, but current conditions can be fairly stagnant. Although vaccines are carried out in several countries, travel restrictions are still in place in some countries, including Indonesia. This prolonged condition as well as the media coverage has had quite an impact on us. BKSDA Jogja, who feels they have […]
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Mar
Mar
It’s been one year of the pandemic, but this March was still a regular month for us. Some of the activities we do are focusing on the Salt-water and New-guinea crocodile medical check-up, moving the long-tailed macaque that we received last February to a bigger cage after having completed a few weeks of quarantine, then […]
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Feb
Feb
Time flies so fast in February. We still have to carried out several activities during the pandemic, even though we had to tighten expenses and cut some employee salaries due to lack of funds. Open donation and fundraising programs have really helped us through all these difficulties. In one month, approximately 100 million rupiahs are […]
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Jan
Jan
2020 has been the toughest year for WRC Jogja, for all of us. The virus pandemic paralyzes all sectors of the economy. Even though we are engaged in the conservation sector, in fact, we are also being affected. The flights out of action, and the closure of borders has stopped the arrival of foreign visitors, […]
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Nov
Nov
November is the rice harvest season. The snake and mice population is increasing considerably, and hunting for food by owls has also increased. Two barn owl (Tyto Alba – Indonesian : Serak Jawa) came to our centre in November. The first owl that we rescued was brought in by a villager who found it trapped […]
For the first time, on 27th of October 2020 the Wildlife Rescue Center Jogja held a webinar discussing about wildlife conservation. The issue raised was migratory birds with the theme “Migrant Birds: Friend or Foe during the Pandemic?” with resource persons Asman Adi Purwanto (BISA INDONESIA) and drh. Christida Estu Wastika (Hokkaido University) guided […]
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Oct
Oct
Recently we finished 4 new projects at our centre. #project 1 – New roofing for 3 of our pre-release bird cages. 3 of our big pre-release cages we have at the centre which we use for eagles who are almost ready to released back to the wild again. We move the eagles from the smaller […]
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Oct
Oct
This year WRC Jogja took part in the Giving Day for Apes 2020 event. Giving Day for Apes 2020 is a unique fundraising competition organized by the Global Federation of Animal Sanctuaries (GFAS) through Mightycause and competitors are able through win potential awards on the final day of the competition at the 13th of October. […]
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Sep
Sep
The Covid pandemic has hit Indonesia since March 2020 and has continued until now. This hampered the programme at WRC Jogja. One of them is a conservation education program. The programme is actually focuses on education regarding wildlife conservation targeting students and the general public. There are several programs such as called jelajah alam, bird […]
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Aug
Aug
Since the beginning of the pandemic where it was very difficult for us to meet all our needs because there is no income, fruits for animals, but donations came to us in many ways. One of them came from the Center of Orangutan Protection (COP). Both in terms of food and nutrition for animals, as […]