Permit me to be a little bit jealous. Ab fab those photos of babirusa and anoa in the wild. Are we talking Dumoga Bone or is Nantu the other other reserve (led by community conservation).
I will really try hard next year to go over myself and perhaps bring back some more brilliant photographic material.
Permit me to be a little bit jealous. Ab fab those photos of babirusa and anoa in the wild. Are we talking Dumoga Bone or is Nantu the other other reserve (led by community conservation).
Dumoga Bone (now called Bogani Nani Wartabone, which is so much harder to remember and say!) is the national park about an hour from Kotamabagu which is a few hours from Manado. If you see babirusa or anoa there you should consider buying a lottery ticket! As you know they are incredibly rare there (and most places through hunting).
Nantu is a reserve (as I understand it, not a national park) several hours north (?) from Gorontalo which is maybe halfway along the northern peninsula; Gorontalo itself is about nine hours west from Kotamabagu.
I don't think the existance of Nantu has much to do with local conservation measures (local in terms of the villages in the immediate vicinity), but rather due to the continual presence of heavily-armed police troops! At Dumoga-Bone the forest is threatened largely by the locals themselves who are engaged in illegal logging, gold-mining and poaching.
