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Length of Video: 28 mins.
Date Filmed: June 2007

First video made by indigenous Dusun villagers who live on the border of Crocker Range National Park in Sabah, Borneo, as part of an initiative to build capacity, build bridges and resolve conflict.

http://partnerportal.gn.apc.org/node/66

Southeast Asia is a region rich in biocultural diversity. Home to more than 600 million people, the contrast between the hectic pace of rapidly growing cities and quaint rural villages spread across a vast countryside is remarkable. As competition for resources and energy mounts, solutions are urgently needed to strike a balance between sustainable development and conservation of the region’s unique biodiversity.

The Global Diversity Foundation is committed to finding solutions through applied research, education and long term support of community-based initiatives. In Southeast Asia, our main priority is to develop alternative ways of managing the environment in areas where indigenous peoples live close to, or inside, protected areas. Through a blend of participatory research action and interactive training programmes, we are working intensively on exploring the issues between parks and people in Sabah (Malaysian Borneo), our focus site.