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Vivian Mejia, our current volunteer from Canada, is staying in Perancak Beach to help ProFauna in sea turtles conservation program since yesterday. Vivian has done several activities such as beach patrol, turtle eggs relocation, nursing baby turtles, and also education program.

In early May, an effort to smuggle 1.880 eggs from Bau-Bau, Southeast Sulawesi, to East Borneo via Semayang harbor Balikpapan, was foiled. Last week, a dealer in Samarinda got arrested before he started the business, and 500 eggs was confiscated.

Ride for Orangutan (RFO) campaign conducted by ProFauna Indonesia in April-May 2013 had successfully accomplished. The campaign tour across Sumatra on dirtbikes from Jakarta to Aceh got covered by numerous mass media, but the real hit is the active participation from the people supporting this campaign. Our supporters give their partaking in forms of donation, education, and direct involvement in the campaign.

Tim Kurma Asih dan ProFauna menyelamatkan seekor penyu lengkang yang terjaring oleh nelayan yang sedang menangkap ikan di perairan Bali (21/5/2013). Penyu itu kemudian dievakuasi ke pusat konservasi penyu yang ada di Perancak, Bali.

Southeast Aceh's Police Chief Officer greet Ride for Orangutan (RFO) team on their way back from Ketambe, Leuser National Park, Disctrict of Souteast Aceh (11/5/2013).

Nature Conservation Agency, Military Police, quarantine staffs, and harbor officials collaborated to confiscate hundreds of parrots and cockatoos who were about to be smuggled out from Tobello, North Maluku (31/5/2013).