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The Rimba Raya Biodiversity Reserve REDD Project

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<strong>The</strong> comparative analysis will be used to assess the effectivenessof <strong>REDD</strong> across sites, which will contribute to this nacentapproach to conservation and development.<strong>Rimba</strong> <strong>Raya</strong> will be one of six “intensive” study sites, whereCIFOR researchers will spend about 2-­‐3 months at each site,involving household, village, and proponent surveys. This willmake <strong>Rimba</strong> <strong>Raya</strong> the representative site for Indonesia and willprovide additional education and outreach for the project.<strong>Project</strong> proponents have beguncollaborating with theUniversity of Redlands andRedlands Institute to develop a series of spatial analysis projectsfor <strong>Rimba</strong> <strong>Raya</strong>, which will provide an important exchange ofeducational and project benefits. University of Redlands directsprograms in Geographic Information Science and is a partner toESRI, the leader in GIS software. Redlands Institute is a partnerorganization that conducts applied GIS such developingconservation monitoring tools and analysis modules. <strong>Project</strong>proponents are currently hosting a senior analyst from RedlandsInstitute in Kalimantan to assist in applying and improvinganalysis for <strong>Rimba</strong> <strong>Raya</strong> monitoring. This collaboration will alsoinclude educational exchanges with the university, anddevelopment of tools, workflows and systems for building andmaintaining the monitoring database.ESRI, the leader inGIS software,established thenon-­‐profit ESRI Conservation Program to assist NGOs worldwideto develop and use GIS for conservation management. OFI is alongtime partner and recipient of ECP grants and <strong>Rimba</strong> <strong>Raya</strong> is anew focus of GIS work under ECP. This year, July 2010, the <strong>Rimba</strong><strong>Raya</strong> <strong>REDD</strong> project will be featured at the ESRI International UserConference hosted and supported by the ECP-­‐founded Societyfor Conservation GIS (SCGIS). Communication, informationexchange and learning are the focus of these activities and haveincluded technology transfer to Indonesia and U.S.-­‐based trainingof OFI’s Indonesian GIS staff. <strong>The</strong>se same activities will be carriedout by project proponents for <strong>Rimba</strong> <strong>Raya</strong>.146

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