Adam Miller
The Idea
Community-led conservation in Indonesia
Organization
Planet Indonesia
In many Indonesian forest and coastal communities, rapid deforestation—driven by mining, logging, and palm oil—puts enormous pressure on local communities to sell land for short term gain.
About Adam
Back in 2013, Adam moved to Indonesia as a Fulbright Fellow to follow his childhood dream of becoming a tropical ornithologist. But after he saw the struggles of people living in rural Borneo, he realized that counting birds wasn't the best way for him to positively impact the planet. So Adam and three co-founders created Planet Indonesia to put Indigenous and local communities back in control of their social and ecological trajectory.
