Yayasan Masarang – unit Tasikoki Wildlife Rescue Centre
Mission statement
The Masarang Foundation works all over Indonesia but their goals aim to have a global impact. The aim of the Masarang Foundation is to save the environment through the active participation of local people.
Through its projects, the foundation works on solutions for the most pressing problems the world currently faces: climate change, extinction of plants and animals, destruction of ecosystems, poverty and underdevelopment. The projects link the possibilities of nature, the potential of local people, local traditions and customs, science and technology.
Tasikoki Wildlife Rescue Centre is a unit of the Masarang Foundation dealing specifically with wildlife biodiversity issues.
ASAP Species they are working to conserve
ASAP Partner since: 2017
Country focus: Indonesia
News & Stories
Earlier this year, a significant breakthrough was made in one of the projects funded by ASAP’s Species Conservation Fund. After a long search, the dedicated team rediscovered the very first specimen of an Mesilau Stream Toad, thought to have been lost to science.