PanEco – Paneco

Landslides Impact Orangutan Quarantine and Rehabilitation Center

On November 27, 2024 at 1:00 AM several major landslides struck our Orangutan Quarantine and Rehabilitation Center in North Sumatra. These landslides, triggered by exceptionally heavy rainfall, caused extensive damage to key infrastructure, including the main veterinary clinic and multiple orangutan enclosures. Two orangutans have died because of the landslides. All other 39 animals were unharmed and are safe.

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The everyday life of a community service architect at Orangutan Haven

PanEco, Sustainable development / katja

Alan Pülz completed his four-month community service assignment for PanEco in Indonesia. The young architect drew up construction plans and designs for various smaller and larger construction projects at the ‘Orangutan Haven’. Here’s an extract from his diary describing a typical day on the job:

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Meet: Rosa Yaneswara

Orangutan protection, PanEco / katja

Rosa is a veterinarian with heart and soul. She loves her work at the reintroduction centre in Jantho and feels perfectly at home under the sometimes basic conditions there. Her responsibility as a vet is to ensure that the orangutans are optimally prepared for release into the wild.

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Environmental education in Switzerland and in Indonesia: learning from each other

PanEco / katja

Environmental education is a central component of nature conservation in Switzerland as well as in Indonesia. This is why we have invested more heavily in exchanges between the environmental education teams in our programmes this year. To kick things off, six delegates from our four environmental education centres in Indonesia recently visited us in Berg am Irchel.

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Our Annual Report 2023 is here!

PanEco / katja

For almost thirty years, our 27 employees in Switzerland and a further 218 employees of our long-standing partners in Indonesia have dedicated themselves to preserving and protecting biodiversity and promoting the responsible use of nature with a great deal of knowledge and passion. Find out how we achieved this goal last year in our programmes in Indonesia, at the Berg am Irchel Bird of Prey Sanctuary and at the Thurauen Nature Centre!

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We introduce Dr Anna Marzec

PanEco / katja

In February, behavioural biologist Anna Marzec joined the PanEco team. After an introduction at the office in Berg am Irchel, she dived straight into our programmes in Indonesia – a travelogue:

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Community service in Medan: making biodiversity measurable

PanEco, Rainforest protection / katja

PanEco offers up to four places for community service volunteers in its programmes in Indonesia. To qualify for an assignment, the volunteers must have a suitable professional profile and some experience, and they must be available for several months. At the same time, our team in Indonesia must also be able to offer a meaningful job. Sometimes everything comes together just right, as in the case of Kevin Knecht, who tells us about his four-month assignment in Medan, North Sumatra.

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Moving into the Orangutan Haven on Sumatra

Orangutan protection, PanEco, Rainforest protection / katja

We are about to officially launch a new project that is unique in the world: Our Orangutan Haven will be the new home for orangutans that can no longer be released into the wild due to various impairments. The Haven is also an environmental education centre on the topics of rainforest, orangutans and illegal wildlife trade. The first orangutans are now being relocated from the quarantine and rehabilitation centre on Sumatra to a number of islands in Orangutan Haven.

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A visit to our Indonesia projects

Orangutan protection, PanEco / katja

Trips by Swiss PanEco staff to our programmes in Indonesia are very important to ensure a good cooperation with our local partners and staff. My name is Melina Erdin and I have been working for PanEco for one year. In June I visited our programmes in Indonesia for the first time. I would like to take you with me on my journey and give you an insight into my travel diary.

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«Pongo – fascinating orangutans»

Orangutan protection, PanEco, Rainforest protection / katja

Orangutans are fascinating animals. And nature photographer Maxime Aliaga succumbed to
this fascination many years ago. He has compiled his most beautiful photos in an exhibition
that was shown in the Alte Kaserne in Winterthur in June 2023.

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