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Alumni Association (HA) IPB University, through an autonomous body Independent Volunteers Action (ARM) donates logistics in the form of 2000 N95-standard masks, 100 portable oxygen tanks, and various drugs to help people in Riau, which is in a middle of smoke disaster due to forest fires. The donation was distributed to the locals, especially inRead more

Mega Putri Amelya, a student from the Department of Biology, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences (FMIPA) of IPB University, loves the world of fungi. Her hobby in exploring nature and finding diversity of fungi is channeled through social media named Instagram. Because of this hobby, Mega became one of eleven mentors requested by SMPRead more

Indonesia, as a mega-biodiversity country in the world is blessed with abundant biodiversity and ecological exclusivity in a great geographical structure. This trait can be made as a foundation for a sustainable development. Threats against rare trees in Indonesia has become more imminent as the time passes. The real threat against the trees is excessiveRead more

Hundreds of forestry researchers discussed innovations for the sustainability and challenges of Tropical Silviculture in the 2nd International Conference on Tropical Silviculture (ICTS) 2019 with the theme of ‘Forest Research and Innovation for Sustainable Development’. The event that was held by the Silviculture Department, Faculty of Forestry IPB University in collaboration with the Ministry ofRead more

There was a difference with Healthy Morning Walk (Japas) IPB University 2019. Thousands of participants brought their own tumblers while attending the morning walk. Japas was the proof of commitment of IPB University to achieve green campus, in which one of the commitments was reducing the use of plastic packaging. The participants could fill theirRead more

The issue regarding orangutans lately has been a spotlight. The emergence of various problems between humans and orangutans is one of the factors. Orangutans’ deprived habitat, decreasing food source, and dwindling population each year are some of many problems happening in Indonesia. Indonesia has three endemic species of orangutans which became the attention of theRead more

Various efforts to overcome waste problems continue to be made. One of them is Dare to Fight Trash / Berani Atasi Sampah (Berantas) which was initiated by the Ministry of Environment, Student Executive Board (BEM) of Student Family (KM) of IPB University. Read More>>Read more

Human activity is inseparable from the use of plastic. Plastic takes a long time to decompose, causing pollution problems. One solution to overcome the problem of plastic is to reduce the use of plastic, especially plastic bottles. Read More>>Read more

Communities in Patra Manggala Village, Kemiri Subdistrict, Tangerang Regency, Banten used to think that the presence of mangroves disturbed tiger shrimp culture. Large scale mangrove tree felling had also been carried out in this area. In 2006, the harvest of tiger shrimp reached 20 kilograms per day. But after the absence of mangroves, shrimp yieldsRead more

Dozens of IPB University students who are members of the Marine Science and Technology Student Association (Himiteka) went through the Himiteka VI Expedition to Sabira Island, Northern Seribu Islands (6-10/8). The activity that took place every year was aimed at taking coral hydrobiology data and mangrove ecosystems, acoustic data collection for marine instrumentation to takeRead more