PEOPLE RESOURCES AND CONSERVATION FOUNDATION
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Mission Statement
Established in 1995, People Resources and Conservation Foundation (PRCF) is a non-government, non-membership, non-profit organization incorporated in the United States of America, under Section 501(c)(3) of the US Internal Revenue Code. PRCF's goal is imbedded within its Mission Statement; “to conserve biodiversity, ecosystem services, and local cultural identities through participatory solutions that protect and promote the wise use of natural resources, support socioeconomic development of communities, and enable adaptation to climate change”. Since its inception, we have grown steadily and now operate in Southeast Asia as a federation of semi-autonomous Country Programs. PRCF Federation members oversee small and high priority projects, eventually becoming independent nationally registered non-governmental organizations, such as the Yayasan PRCF Indonesia. Members of the PRCF Federation share the insignia, operational philosophy, vision, mission statement, and accountability standards of the PRCF.
About This Cause
Under the uncertainty of climate change, we work to conserve biodiversity, ecosystem services, and local cultural identities though participatory solutions that protect and promote the wise use of natural resources and the socioeconomic development of affected communities. People Resources and Conservation Foundation (PRCF) was established in 1995 by a team of conservation professionals. The organization’s first project was in Indonesia, building a running water system for the small, isolated, and deprived village of Nanga Juoi in West Kalimantan. The project helped the village not only gain access to running water and become economically self-sufficient through agroforestry measures, it also contributed to a direct reduction in the negative impact of the villagers to the surrounding protected forests of Bukit Baka – Bukit Raya National Park, thereby conserving the habitat of several endangered species, including the Bornean Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) and Agile Gibbon (Hylobates agilis). PRCF has grown steadily since its inception and now carries out projects throughout Southeast Asia, including programs in Indonesia, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar, and Vietnam, with programs in the drawing for the Philippines and Laos PDR. Efforts to achieve our conservation and development mission focus on four strategic priorities: - Conservation of biodiversity and ecosystem functions - Sustainable management and use of natural resources - Community-based conservation initiatives - Cultural arts revitalization and ethnic minority livelihoods. PRCF’s strategy to benefit the preservation of species and habitat biodiversity conservation is to undertake activities that target global priority species and habitats, and link conservation with the development of sustainable livelihoods, particularly for communities living adjacent to protected areas, remnant forests, and degraded lands that hold conservation potential. PRCF works directly with local community members, stakeholder government authorities, and relevant private industry at the site to address the root causes of conservation threats and habitat degradation. The majority of PRCF conservation programs include community livelihoods components, through which we work to address poverty through activities that strengthen sustainable household agriculture, forestry, fisheries, and micro-enterprises. Often, our household activities are supported by establishment of village self-help groups fitted with revolving funds programs run by village women, and that hold regulations to ensure social equity, economic sustainability, and environmental concerns. Since about 2001, PRCF has established more than fifty such village self-help groups in its countries of operation, with more than 90% of these groups achieving sustainability. When a conservation program is started, PRCF is already thinking about an exit strategy that will ensure adoption and adaptation of measures by the local stakeholders to ensure sustainability of its conservation impact. Through its work, PRCF fosters activities with potential to sustain the natural environment while upholding the cultural and social identities of rural communities. Villagers are encouraged to take part in all aspects of PRCF projects, from planning and implementation, to monitoring and evaluation. This participatory emphasis, combined with the long-term experience of PRCF personnel, enables the effective development and implementation of innovative and site-specific management strategies that involve, empower, and benefit local communities, and which further biodiversity conservation efforts. It is through this focus that PRCF’s conservation projects are able to work for the preservation of species and their habitats. PRCF works primarily in Southeast Asia with the following species in focus: - Indonesia – Mueller Gibbon (Hylobates muelleri) and Tomistoma (Tomistoma schlegelii) - Cambodia – Giant Ibis (Thaumatibis gigantea) and White-shouldered Ibis (Pseudibis davinsoni) - Myanmar – Western Hoolock Gibbon (Hoolock hoolock) and Eastern Hoolock Gibbon (Hoolock leuconedys) - Thailand – Lar Carpenteri Gibbon (Hylobates lar carpenteri) - Vietnam – Francois’ Langur (Trachypithecus francoisi), Tonking Snub-nosed Monkey (Rhinopithecus avunculus), White-eared Night Heron (Gorsachius magnificus), Eastern Black-crested Gibbon (Nomascus nasutus) Because our approach is to work through community-based and collaborative management measures for biodiversity conservation, local people living in the landscape of these species’ habitats are fully involved in our efforts. Mostly, these are poor and marginalized ethnic minority groups, including H’mong, Dzao, Tay, Karen, Chin, and Dayak minorities. Benevity donations would be treated as unrestricted general operating support that invests in the People Resources and Conservation Foundation’s (PRCF) overall mission of biodiversity conservation with the participation of local communities. It will provide working capital that will allow PRCF to make smart, strategic choices to fulfill its mission and goals. Benevity funding will strengthen PRCF's resources and make it more resilient in the face of change. As PRCF is a federation of semi-autonomous country programs in Indonesia, Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam, it is important that the organization maintains an effective level of flexibility and stability in order to make a lasting impact in biodiversity conservation. Donations will enable PRCF to continue to make a difference in preserving both endangered species and their habitats, and to support the local communities that live side-by-side with them. Benevity donations will help the following: Indonesia: In West Kalimantan in Borneo, PRCF works with the local Dayak people to conserve and rehabilitate degraded remnant forests, grassland habitats, and protected areas in the Sintang, Kapuas Hulu and Bengkayang districts. Projects link sustainable forest management by local communities, and the protection of natural resources and the habitats of the endangered Mueller Gibbon and vulnerable Tomistoma (false gharial) with the attainment of sustainable livelihoods. Cambodia: PRCF is currently working with local communities living within and around the Lomphat Wildlife Sanctuary in Ratanakiri and Mondulkiri provinces, to strengthen community-based conservation of ibis nesting and roosting habitats. Work within the communities will empower the local villagers to actively take part in the conservation of the critically endangered Giant Ibis and White-shouldered Ibis, while at the same time improving their livelihoods. Myanmar: PRCF is working on community-based conservation of the motivate a new generation of young Burmese interested in conservation of the increasingly endangered Western Hoolock Gibbon and vulnerable Eastern Hoolock Gibbon. Respectively, our conservation work in the country is taking place though collaboration and empowerment of the Chin ethnic group and the Karen ethnic groups who have strong cultural believes about conservation of gibbons. Thailand: PRCF is working with ethnic Karen communities living in northwestern Thailand to help protect the habitat and populations of Lar Capernteri Gibbon sharing the landscape. Because of the strong cultural affinities of Karen people with gibbons, we are also researching and documenting cultural gibbon conservation traditions and oral history, and helping villagers to revive their traditional conservation practices to support ongoing conservation initiatives. Vietnam: PRCF works in northeastern Vietnam, targeting conservation projects to two globally endangered primate species, the Francois Langur and the Tonkin Snub-nosed Monkey, and the endangered White-eared Night Heron. Community-based management approaches have so far involved a number of ethnic minority groups living around protected areas, including Dzao, H’mong, Nung and Tay. Working together with the local communities, PRCF enacts community-based wildlife conservation as a frontline of defense against illegal poaching and habitat destruction.