Ecoregional Assessment of Biological Diversity in East Kalimantan

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East Kalimantan Ecoregional Assessment: Chapter 3 – Portfolio Results & Assessment Summary F. Current Conservation Strategies and Priority Portfolio Areas In order to reduce or eliminate threats to the portfolio of conservation sites, it is essential to understand the nature of those threats; the key players involved in making those threats worse or better; and to recognize opportunities to engage multiple partners to change the course of those threatening activities. This can be accomplished by developing a suite of concurrent and complementary conservation strategies. In the case of conservation of the portfolio of sites in East Kalimantan, the best strategies will be those that balance the need for human prosperity with the ecological integrity of the system and species targets. The challenge of protecting large functional landscapes will rely on planning for responsible and sustainable harvest of their natural resources. This is where innovative partnerships with some of those responsible for the major threats to these sites will be necessary and most effective in both the short and long term. When the portfolio map is viewed in this light, the layers of forest concessions, road networks, coal mines, gas and oil fields, forest villages, and island communities forms an ominous picture. Working at each of these levels requires a flexible approach that integrates the needs of the many stakeholders (those who are interested in the products and services the forests provide) with the responsibility of making sure the forests and rivers and their inhabitants remain for future generations to both enjoy and gain a living from. In the United States, TNC is able to work with private landowners to conserve a portion of these large functional landscapes – in some cases by purchasing their homeland, farm, or ranch to accomplish this goal. In Indonesia this approach is not possible, but there are reasonable alternatives. We are already working with some forest concessionaires to pay them for the lost productivity of significant blocks of their forest leases (HPH) to preserve standing timber for the benefit of orangutans, gibbons, and many of the other target species and ecological systems. This process is still in development, but it holds great promise. In other cases, we are working with other conservation groups and the Forest Products Industry to develop a meaningful certification process that will recognize responsible forest managers by labeling their timber products as “environmentally friendly” in the way they were harvested and processed. This labeling will ostensibly permit the owners/operators to sell their product on the world market at higher than average prices or at markets that will only accept environmentally sound harvested wood – thereby rewarding them for taking the extra steps to manage their forests in a more ecologically sensible way. This too is in an experimental phase. It remains to be seen if this certification process will allow responsible forest managers to out-compete the illegal loggers and pulp and timber mills in the global marketplace. Constant vigilance will be required to spot and arrest any actions to defraud the labeling/certification process along the journey from concession forest to destination markets. And finally, by working together with local governments at the National, Provincial and District levels, it is hoped that this ecoregional conservation assessment will be integrated into their own spatial plans for the management of the vast natural resources in East 11
East Kalimantan Ecoregional Assessment: Chapter 3 – Portfolio Results & Assessment Summary Kalimantan. Early presentations of the ecoregional assessment process have been received with much enthusiasm on the part of these local government officials – recognizing the value in planning on a large-scale level for the benefit of local industries and the local peoples. In the Berau regency district alone, the local government has adopted 80% of the recommended portfolio sites within their jurisdiction (S. Stanley, pers. comm. 2004). We are hopeful this action will lead to other governmental entities and conservation groups working with The Nature Conservancy to accomplish the goals of this assessment on a much larger scale than we can do alone. 12
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