How You Can Help

Since it was established by Bradley and Debbie Gardner in 1999, Begawan Foundation has made major contributions to the local community in the areas of the environment, education and health.

For the past 10 years, the Gardners have financed almost all of the Foundation’s activities, aside from generous donations of funds and equipment for its Bali Starling Conservation Project, which were received from the Charles Engelhard Foundation in the USA, Mr. Theo Pagel, Director of the Cologne Zoo and Markus Shaw, former Chairman WWF Hong Kong. Begawan Foundation would also like to thank Dr. Willie Smits, director Gibbon Foundation, for his donation towards the first release of the Bali Starlings on Nusa Penida in 2006.

Begawan Foundation is deeply committed to expanding the scale of our existing projects and initiating new ones that will serve to fulfill our Mission. If you share our goals, we would sincerely appreciate any assistance that you can give us.

If you would like to make a donation to assist in monitoring the future of the Bali Starling on Nusa Penida, or to assist in the costs relating to further breeding at Green School, we would appreciate hearing from you. As the population of the breeding birds grows, further cages will be required, socialization cages will be set up and prior to release, a training cage will be built where the birds learn to take the responsibility for finding food, water and shelter.

If you are interested to visit the site on Nusa Penida or at Green School, we would appreciate hearing from you in order for us to arrange a guided site visit.

If you are interested to see how the birds have increased in number over the years, we will gladly share the studbook information with you.


Carolyn Kenwrick
Email: carolyn@begawanfoundation.org
Tel: +62 361 973506

If you wish to make a donation:
Beneficiary: Yayasan Begawan
Bank: CIMB Niaga Tbk
Address: Jl. Raya Sayan No. 52 Ubud, Gianyar Bali Indonesia 80571
Acct No.: 489-01-00084-00-0