Stories

Communities Find a Voice through Photography

Date: July 23, 2012
In This Story:
- Borneo and Sumatra

In 2010, WWF started a program in West Kalimantan, Indonesia that enables communities to find a voice through photography. The program, Panda CLICK! (Communication Learning toward Innovative Change and Knowledge), encourages community members to capture photos and video of their surroundings—images they feel are significant to their culture and daily life. Participants are of all ages and include fishermen, farmers, teachers, students and tribal leaders.

Panda CLICK! is part of WWF’s contribution to community education about nature conservation. The program encourages communities to transfer knowledge to younger generations through visual and written documentation.

View some of the incredible photographs that have been captured by Panda CLICK! participants:

Wrinkled hornbills are often found on the banks of the Kapuas River.
Before harvest women create wicker baskets to catch shrimp or small fish.
Danau Sentarum National Park’s pond resembles a giant mirror because it reflects surrounding objects perfectly.
Tortoises like this one hide inside their shells to avoid the attacks of other predators.
Local people named this plant the fanfold orchid.
This leaf-eating primate is endemic to Borneo. Proboscis monkeys are usually found in groups hanging from trees, but they’re good swimmers too.
Shoulder baskets are used to carry forest and farming products.
Illipe nuts are collected from the forest and then smoked. Smoking is one of the traditional methods to preserve and process the nuts before they are sold at the markets.