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cv.Ekonexion is a 100 % locally-owned Limited Partnership with registered office in Sorong (on the northwestern tip of New Guinea's Bird's Head Peninsula), organized after the laws of the Republic of Indonesia, the Papua Special Autonomous Region, the novel province of West Papua, and the regency of Sorong Town.

Founded in June 2005, we are exclusively active in the domain of ecotourism, both as an independent travel operator specializing in bird-watching and general natural history tours throughout Papua, as a consultancy for regional ecotourism planning and development. While the practical organization of environmentally and socially responsible travel constitutes our core activity, additional services that we can provide range from in-depth in situ assessments of ecotourism potential to multi-lingual web marketing solutions to further its development.

Throughout our business activities, emerges the foresight to embrace and expand upon existing conservation priorities, as well as the endeavor to create through responsible travel, economically viable and sustainable income-generating mechanisms for secluded communities living at the heart of biodiversity, as an independent yet entirely complementary means of strengthening and fine-tuning both conservation as community development initiatives and policies. In order to maximize the outlook of tangible results in these fields, each ecotourism destination in Papua that we promote, as a start, has been carefully selected on the basis of biodiversity richness and species endemism, existing conservation priorities, ecosystem and habitat intactness, accessibility, and not least community receptiveness.

Our efforts recently culminated into an ambitious and innovative Community Conservation and Ecotourism Agreement that brings new hope for globally threatened wildlife on Waigeo Island in the fabled Raja Ampat archipelago off New Guinea's western tip.

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Read on about our Community Conservation and Ecotourism Agreement for the Orobiai River catchment on Waigeo Island (from www.PapuaExpeditions.com).

Traditional societies in Papua are rapidly being overtaken by the 21st century. Ever increasing cash-dependency and the decay of customary land tenure systems incite indigenous communities to no longer principally oppose resource extraction an sich, but to merely expect to reciprocally benefit from it. Any conservation project intervention thus requires effective cash-generating alternatives to rival destructive resource use, even if communities do understand the long-term deleterious impact of such practices. Ecotourism, in no small part, can make a difference here. (Like Wijaya, Founder, cv.Ekonexion)