Thank you Sorrel for your passionate & Inspired creations…

Sharing her ideas with our women in the lodge kitchen for a week,  Sorrel, a Raw Food consultant from San Diego came up with some wonderful,  colourful & healthy new meals to add to our Menu, using local ingredients from our garden.

Increasingly we have guests who request meals which are: vegetarian, gluten or wheat free, raw or vegan.

We now have more delicious meals to offer at the lodge…. try our Long Life Salad or Raw Food Wraps

You can read more about Sorrel here

Thank you JJ & Jane for  your donation to Suara, contributing to his Degree in Architecture.

 Suara has started working doing freelance designs. Pictured above in front of the new 100% solar villa Suber Sari Eco Resort, which Suara helped with the technical drawings.

The Lodge will continue to sponsor Suara for 1 more year until his degree is completed.

12th-20th November 2011

Jarot & Pinky, our newly adopted Orangutans in Sumatra

The Australian Orangutan Project has three other little orangutan infants that are in desperate need of support and care. Adopting Meki, Rosi or Wigly is an ideal way to secure care for them as well making a great gift for friends or family. Each infant adoption costs just $55 per year.

Please follow this link if you would like to adopt a baby orangutan and help rehabilitate it back to the rainforest http://www.orangutan.org.au/adoptions-new

Bird release at Besikalung temple, Batu karu mountain – 12th November 

There will be a big ceremony at Besikalung temple (Batu karu mountain) to celebrate “Indonesian Planting Day” and the anniversary of the Tabanan Regency. The Tabanan regency and local government officials will also attend.

FNPF will purchase many birds for release at the ceremony. 

We will purchase “Peaceful Doves” and “White Vented Mynahs” for release during the ceremony.

If you would like to release a bird, please donate Rp 60,000 and we will purchase a bird for you.

The Besi kalung temple committee, 5 villages and 9 subaks have invited FNPF to help them transform their area (approx 50 sqare kms) into a sanctuary for birds and other wildlife, in the same way that FNPF partnered with the villages to transform the whole island of Nusa Penida into a sanctuary. It is a beautiful location and easy to get to from Ubud, sanur or other place in Bali . This is a new project area for FNPF and your attendance would really help us demonstrate support to the local communities. 

You will need to make your own way to Besikalung temple (near Utu village). It is 1 about 1 hour drive from Ubud

Please send an email to info@fnpf.org for details.

Note :

Dress code : Traditional Balinese

Norm & I were happy to be invited to the recent TEDx talk in Bali last month. Speakers from a range of environmental fields highlighted the need to protect Bali’s natural image.

The stand our speaker was Pak Dharma Putra M.Sc from Udayana university, speaking on the importance of protecting Bali’s marine life & the new proposed marine parks located at key coastal areas in Bali including Nusa Penida. Thanks for organising this event Alan Bywaters, we look forward to the next one.

For those of you who don’t know about TED talks, please click here to learn more about this informative & often inspiring nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading.

My favorite talks at the moment is: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/pranav_mistry_the_thrilling_potential_of_sixthsense_technology.html

2 lovely photos of Pesek being the perfect model

Please see our website for information on our Orangutan Treks in Sumatra.

This is a chance for you to see the beautiful Sumatran Orangutan, now critically endangered due to poaching and habitat loss.

By taking this trek you are directly supporting local Trekking guides and Park rangers who care for the Orangutans.

Photos from a recent trip to Sumatra of Darma’s new Homestay at his house in the village in Bukit Lawang.

Darma has 1 room for guests already completed and is now adding another bungalow facing the mountain range. For any friends of Darma, who would like to help with this new project, please contact me.

This month Oska & I joined our Balinese families children Putu & Susi in the Potong Gigi ceremony.

It was an amazing experience with most of the community calling in over 5 days, sharing food, helping to make elaborate decorations, finishing with a traditional dance in the evening with a local dance troop and gamelan orchestra.