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Empowering Communities

BEST Society works to empower communities’ ability to conserve the natural resources they depend upon. We invest in capacity building and skills enhancement to strengthen their role as stewards of the environment and improve their livelihoods.

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Elevating Income

We work with low income communities to help them elevate their income by creating employment opportunities through our integrated community-based tourism and sustainable agriculture projects.

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Meeting Basic Needs

BEST Society helps provide people with resources focusing on medical assistance, clean water, better infrastructure and improved sanitation.

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Environmental Conservation

We focus on grassroots conservation, education and the introduction of improved technologies among indigenous rural communities to enable livelihood improvement through sustainable agriculture practices and greater integration between nature and communities.

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Communities Empowered

Borneo Eco Tours embarks on Phase 2, namely, to hand back the primary responsibility to the local community members to operate their own products and enjoy its benefits.

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Donate

Support our initiatives through generous giving. Contributions can be made in the form of cash, cheque, wire transfer, postal order or bank draft and all donations are tax deductible under Malaysian law. We also encourage you to consider different ways you can connect with us to better understand the impact your contributions have on local communities.

Internship and Volunteering

No amount of gold will buy you time and no job is too small to make a difference. Intern with us for a meaningful on-the-job training that will add great value to your CV. We would like to encourage you to give your time and skills through volunteering for worthy causes, simple acts of service, and ground-up efforts.

Partnership

If you are working towards the same cause, get in touch with us. With like-minded partners, we are able to move more mountains. We work with our partners to find innovative solutions to socio-economic problems. Partnerships form powerful synergies that will lead to lasting impacts. Let’s partner up!

Expertise

BEST Society calls on a network of supporters near and far to help carry our work forward and upward. We are looking for experts in various fields - accounting, landscaping, furniture making, application of agricultural knowledge, hospitality and tourism management to name a few. Your expertise is invaluable and will help to grow and strengthen existing knowledge and skills as part of capacity building for community development.

GIVING BACK WHILE YOU TRAVEL

Whenever you choose to travel with Borneo Eco Tours and stay at Sukau Rainforest Lodge, you are not just choosing a holiday in Borneo. You will also be part of something much greater as your travel will help to fund our community and social projects in Malaysian Borneo through our non-profit organisation, BEST Society.

HOW?

Every international adult guest staying at Sukau Rainforest Lodge through Borneo Eco Tours contributes to our conservation efforts through a shared funding initiative; RM20.00 is contributed by the guest, RM8.00 by Borneo Eco Tours.
On top of that, Sukau Rainforest Lodge will contribute RM4 respectively to BEST Society.
Indirectly, you are helping to fund a total of RM32 contribution for conservation and at the same time, playing your part in the offsetting of carbon footprint.

Since the year 1996, BEST Society has received donation from individual donors and corporations amounting to RM 1,115,262.00. As of December 2025, Borneo Eco Tours have contributed RM 1,893,056.00 and Sukau Rainforest Lodge with RM 800,811 out of the total amount of RM 3,844,129.00.