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HCV2. Forest areas containing globally, regionally, or
nationally significant large landscape level forests,
contained within, or containing the management unit,
where viable population of most if not all naturally
occurring species exist in natural patterns or distribution
and abundance.
In Indonesia there is a relative paucity of data on population distribution and genetics for
almost all species. Therefore this HCV should be considered in two parts. The first
pertains to remaining forest in relation to the island it sits on. The second pertains to
viable populations; it is believed that conservation of large blocks of habitat retain
species in viable numbers.
Rationale
Forests that contain viable populations of most or all native species will be large in size,
and relatively unaffected by recent human disturbance and fragmentation.
In the Indonesian context this toolkit has identified the following components:
2.1 FMU is a large level landscape forest
2.2 FMU is an integral part of a large level landscape forest
2.3 The FMU maintains viable populations of most naturally occurring species
HCV2.1 FMU is a large level landscape forest
Rationale
This HCV pertains to an FMU that comprises a large level landscape forest in its own
right. Examples of large landscape level forest include, but are not limited to:
• A forest of an entire island
• A significant proportion of the remaining forest of a large island that holds
together as a reasonably unfragmented block
A FMU which is a large landscape forest is considered HCV.
Instructions for forest managers
Identification of HCV 2.1
Task Guidance Examples
Determine the extent of
remaining forest on the
• CITRA Landsat
Image (or other
Information may be sought
from:
island, and that which the
remotely sensed
• BAKOSURTANAL and