*There are a variety of staying lengths, researchers options and different camps to stay at. There is no set plan. Please inquire with SAFE for more specific details*

 

The Stability of Altered Forest Ecosystem (SAFE) Project is located in the rainforests of Malaysian Borneo. It stands among the world’s largest ecological experiments. The SAFE Project consists of three interconnected projects:

 

• The first of these examines ecological changes along a gradient of forest modification, scrutinising differences in how the ecosystem functions and the species that survive in a forest as it becomes lightly logged, heavily logged, fragmented and eventually converted into an oil palm plantation.

• The second project relies on experimentally designed forest fragments to investigate how the spatial structure of a landscape can mediate or exacerbate the ecological impacts of logging.

• The third project is focused on the role of forest remnants in protecting waterways, investigating how changing the width of the riparian vegetation that shelters permanent streams impacts the quality of water emerging from forests and plantations.

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SAFE hosts many different ecological researchers over a variety of research areas.

• 208 projects completed, in progress or being developed at the SAFE Project.

• 18 research areas that cover the breadth of research at the SAFE Project.

• 445 researchers participating in planning and carrying out these projects and hundreds more who have worked with the vital data collected at the SAFE Project.

• 190 recorded outputs that researchers have linked to from this site.