I'm heading to the village of Mangkolisoi.
This is the third site where we have decided to create a reserve.
We are at the beginning, we bought 16 ha. The site is at
north of Kalaweit, one hour by boat, three hours drive, and one
hour by small boat. And the roads here are very complicated ...
Nanto can not even film ...
We arrived in the village of Mangkolisoi
We leave the car in front of the house of chief of the village, to go take a
canoe. We have just been told that the level of
the water is very low so it's going to be rather delicate I think ... it'll take
more time than usual ... Pak Untung is the customary chief of the village.
He takes us there, and with me obviously there is
Nanto carrying the drone.
The small houses behind me is for the
engines, as they are next to the river and every night they remove the engines from
the boat and they put them in these houses
which close with a small padlock. It is rather symbolic, but nobody touches it.
Behind the smiles of the customary chief and Nanto, in fact is playing a
very important negotiation since it concerns 50 ha bordering the 16
hectares already bought by Kalaweit ... So the customary chief saw us go through the
village that's why he's with us now and started
important negotiations with Nanto. It's really the way to work
of Kalaweit. That is, the simple act of
passing through the villages allows us to speak with people,
people approach us, and we are able to understand the possible tensions that could
have in the village, the conflicts between different families
for us it's extremely important if we want to create a reserve that is
supported by the villagers, we begin we started from scratch
today we have 16 hectares, and to have a large area without conflict,
protected with the populations it is extremely important to
pay attention to on relationships.
To pay attention of human relations certainly... and be late because of
human relations ... it's been well an hour
now that Nanto and the customary chief argue, and that's the kind of
conversation that can not be cut like that...
The person who accompanied us go back to the village. With Nanto we will
rest an hour or two and then we will go on foot and
also recover a camera-trap that we settled up about six months ago ...
We are now inspecting the limits of 16 hectares that we already bought, we
bought them more than six months ago now...
So we check if there is no problem
before launching as we did on the Supayang Reserve in Sumatra and the
Pararawen reserve, south of borneo, before launching a big
campaign to purchase land, as we go little by little at first, we make sure that
there is no problem, in the administration, in the legitimacy of the owners, etc...
The advantage of here : it's a beautiful forest what with very
tall trees. Beautiful ...
These are trees that are 60 m high, may be more, it is an ideal habitat for
gibbons obviously, bears and according to the villagers there are sometimes
orangutans who are passing here ..
And inside the camera-trap, that's a a sanitary napkin ... we use them
to absorb moisture, as we
leave them a long time and that's good they are fine ... it's perfect...
If that's not the beautiful life ! In any case it's the one I love !
This is a hut used formerly by the Dayaks when they had a
plantation next door, a rice plantation, and we will use it
to sleep tonight.
Here without electricity we already have the impression that we are in the middle of the
night when in fact its just 7 pm, and 7 pm it's already
time to go to bed, because we sleep very early and we also get up very
early.
It's great huh? I'm just above the fire
so normally I should not be bothered by mosquitoes
and then tomorrow morning when the sky will be cleared, we will fly the drone
to see if there were any illegal logging in the 16 ha that we already have
bought.
6 o'clock in the morning ... A sweet awakening in the cabin, to the sound of the rain on the
roof. What is certain is that to sleep here, you must not have
back problems ... Because we are directly on the boards ...
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