The Rimba Raya Biodiversity Reserve REDD Project

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Project Profile HighlightsProject OwnerProject DeveloperNGO Partner & Project BeneficiaryHost CountryRegionProvinceRegencyForest TypeTotal Project Zone (Project Management Area)Total Area at Risk of DeforestationPT Rimba Raya ConservationInfinite-‐Earth, Ltd.Orangutan Foundation InternationalIndonesiaKalimantan (Island of Borneo)Central KalimantanSeruyanHCV Tropical Peat Swamp Forest91,215 ha91,215 haProject Area (Carbon Accounting Area)47,006 ha30-‐year Carbon Emissions Avoided in the Carbon Accouting AreaTotal Carbon Stocks in Project Management Area96,376,455 t CO 2 e>250 million t CO 2 eProject Start Date by Project Developer November 2008Primary Deforestation DriverREDD StandardsEndangered, Threatened & Vulnerable Mammals in Project ZonePlanned Deforestation (Government Policy & Palm Oil)CCB & VCS29 including the Endangered Bornean OrangutanEndangered, Threatened & Vulnerable Species (All) in Project Zone 94+Communities in Project Area and Project Zone0 in Project Area. 14 in Project Zoneiv
ContentsContents ................................................................................................................................................................................................. 5GLOSSARY OF ACRONYMS ............................................................................................................................................................. 8GLOSSARY OF PROJECT SPECIFIC TERMS ................................................................................................................................ 9EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .................................................................................................................................................................... 1G1. Original Conditions in the Project Area ............................................................................................................................................................................... 7G1.1. Project Location and Basic Physical Parameters ........................................................................................................................................................... 7G1.2. Types and Condition of Project Area Vegetation ........................................................................................................................................................ 13G1.4. Current Carbon Stocks within the Project Area .......................................................................................................................................................... 24G1.5. Description of Project Zone Communities .................................................................................................................................................................. 30G1.6. Current Land Use, Property Rights, and Conflicts ...................................................................................................................................................... 40G1.7. Description of Project Zone Biodiversity.................................................................................................................................................................... 43G1.8. Project Zone High Conservation Value Evaluation ..................................................................................................................................................... 54G1.8.1. Significant Concentrations of Biodiversity Values ................................................................................................................................................... 57G1.8.2. Significant Large Landscape-Level Areas ............................................................................................................................................................... 66G1.8.3. Threatened or Rare Ecosystems .............................................................................................................................................................................. 69G1.8.4. Areas Providing Critical Ecosystem Services .......................................................................................................................................................... 71G1.8.5. Areas Fundamental for meeting the basic needs of local communities ...................................................................................................................... 77G1.8.6. Areas Critical for Traditional Cultural Identity ........................................................................................................................................................ 78G2. Baseline Projections ......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 79G2.1. Most Likely ‘Without Project’ Land-‐Use Scenario ........................................................................................................................................................ 79G2.2. Documentation of Project ‘Additionality’................................................................................................................................................................... 97G2.3. Estimated Carbon Stock Changes for ‘Without Project’ Reference Scenario .............................................................................................................. 107G2.4. ‘Without Project’ Scenario Effects on Project Zone Communities ............................................................................................................................. 121G2.5. ‘Without Project’ Scenario Effects on Project Zone Biodiversity ............................................................................................................................... 123G3. Project Design and Goals ................................................................................................................................................................................................. 126G3.1. Summary of Project Climate, Community, and Biodiversity Objectives ..................................................................................................................... 126G3.2. Description of Major Project Activities ..................................................................................................................................................................... 127G3.3. Project Boundaries and Location of Major Project Activities ..................................................................................................................................... 147G3.4. Project Lifetime, Accounting Period, and Implementation Schedule .......................................................................................................................... 148G3.5. Risks to Expected Climate, Community, and Biodiversity Benefits............................................................................................................................ 157G3.6. Project Design and High Conservation Values .......................................................................................................................................................... 163G3.7. Project Benefits Beyond Project Lifetime .................................................................................................................................................................. 163G3.8. Stakeholder Identification and the Rimba Raya Process Framework .......................................................................................................................... 166G3.9. CCBA Public Comment Period ................................................................................................................................................................................. 176G3.10. Grievances and Conflict Resolution ........................................................................................................................................................................ 176G3.11. Project Financing .................................................................................................................................................................................................... 178G4. Management Capacity and Best Practices ....................................................................................................................................................................... 179G4.1. Project Proponents and Governance Structure ........................................................................................................................................................... 179v
Page 1 and 2: The Rimba Raya Biodiversity Reserve
Page 3: AcknowledgementsWith Special Recogn
Page 7 and 8: BIODIVERSITY SECTION ..............
Page 9 and 10: GLOSSARY OF PROJECT SPECIFIC TERMSC
Page 11 and 12: REDD, which is necessarily conserva
Page 13 and 14: Rehabilitation Center (OFI), home t
Page 15 and 16: estricted-‐range, or otherwise
Page 17 and 18: HydrologyWatersheds in the Project
Page 19 and 20: SoilA soil map for the Project Zone
Page 21 and 22: ClimateRainfall in the Project Zone
Page 23 and 24: Compositionally, freshwater swamps
Page 25 and 26: selective logging, intensive loggin
Page 27 and 28: G1.3. Boundaries of the Project Are
Page 29 and 30: Communities in the Project ZoneThe
Page 31 and 32: Delineation of the Project Zone. To
Page 33 and 34: the project and recommending that t
Page 35 and 36: During the ground surveys, aerial s
Page 37 and 38: Stratification by Peat Distribution
Page 39 and 40: G1.5. Description of Project Zone C
Page 41 and 42: Only a few of the communities have
Page 43 and 44: livelihoods, providing protection f
Page 45 and 46: Similar to the other villages along
Page 47 and 48: company. On average, farmers and fi
Page 49 and 50: categories: housing, office, agricu
Page 51 and 52: Table 6. Current Community Conflict
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eight are listed as Vulnerable. Eig
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2004). These losses highlight the i
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small mammal species richness decli
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even fewer forest species than plan
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Other threats to biodiversityAdditi
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HCV1.1Table 8. Preliminary evaluati
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of water supplies and prevention of
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ladang agriculture, scrub, short se
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Table 11. Critically Endangered Hig
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d. areas that support significant c
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G1.8.2. Significant Large Landscape
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It is possible that a degree of per
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The revised Toolkit for Indonesia i
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the assessment area; and second, an
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HCV 4.3HCV 4.3 aims to identify and
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Within the Project Area and neighbo
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G1.8.6. Areas Critical for Traditio
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In 2004, five oil palm estates were
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Figure 23. Comparison of the new dr
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Table 15. Extent of Overlap w/ Oil
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Baseline analysis: LandcoverIn orde
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All survey data has been entered in
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For a complete report on the Carbon
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Identification of Baseline Scenario
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Under Indonesian legislation, Law (
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drained due to the realization that
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conversion for urban, rural, and in
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to 2002. Furthermore, deforestation
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Local Perspective. Tanjung Puting N
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Table 17. 2000-‐2008 Palm Oil E
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Provincial Government Targets Rimba
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to recovery from past disturbance,
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StratumTable 20. Calculations of CO
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Year ofProjectArea loggedyr-‐1T
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GHG removals from oil palm sequestr
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Year ofProjectArea burnedyr-‐1T
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Year ofProjectArea burnedyr-‐1T
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Yr ofProjectTable 26. Net baseline
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environmental impacts and the need
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triggered by palm-‐oil companie
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G3. Project Design and GoalsG3.1. S
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elements and an assessment of the P
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habitat in terms of canopy and food
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Funding of OFI activitiesTanjung Pu
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interventions can improve the poor
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Community Agro-‐Forestry. In ke
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The only requirement is to pump the
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The Rimba Raya project proponents i
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www.kiva.org as highly reputable fi
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purchases more than $24 million dol
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The comparative analysis will be us
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G3.4. Project Lifetime, Accounting
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Table 28. Rimba Raya Implementation
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2-‐Establishment ofRimba RayaRe
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6-‐Development ofSocial Buffer2
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7-‐Outreach andEducation3-‐
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Pembuang Hulu and Tanjung Hanau reg
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.7. Determination of the need for s
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elationship with oil palm companies
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capital.” In order to ensure that
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G3.8. Stakeholder Identification an
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2. Improve multi-‐stakeholder p
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Community Involvement during Projec
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31 26/12/08 Burhanudin Merchant Des
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Table 31. Rimba Raya Project Proces
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G3.9. CCBA Public Comment PeriodDes
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In some contexts, for example where
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Table 32. Required Skill Sets , Key
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Develop areforestationprogramaround
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Figure 38 PT Rimba Raya Conservatio
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Figure 40. Project Organizational C
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manipulated to serve someone’s pe
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13). One area of special considerat
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also provide training in the skills
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Communitycenters &librariesWater fi
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C102 - Social Security (Minimum Sta
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G5.2. Documentation of Project Appr
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Figure 42. Official Land Area Verif
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Figure 44. Original Letter from Gov
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Figure 45. Original Minister’s De
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Encroachment by Palm Oil Plantation
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CLIMATE SECTIONCL1. Net Positive Cl
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CL1.5. Double Counting of Emissions
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Negative leakage is the unanticipat
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undervalued. Moreover, the argument
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et. al., 2005). However the long te
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edistributed such that the most eff
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The intersection of the hypothetica
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dedicated to bio-‐fuel producti
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Without project activities are disp
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Table 36. Assessment of risk factor
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Table 36. ...continuedRiskFactorLik
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Table 37. ...continuedRisk Factor %
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degraded portions of the Project Ar
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CL2.4. Leakage and non-CO2 GasesNon
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Monitoring of the boundary of the p
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Monitoring will be conducted by a p
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Table 38. InfiniteSUSTAINABILITY Ma
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Phinisi FloatingClinicMicro-Finance
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Table 39. Threats and management re
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Hunting - Communities in the Projec
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All five of these capital assets ar
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Hygiene improvesProportion of house
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LARASITAProject proponents will wor
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B1.2. Impact of Project Activities
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HCV 1.1 Support Function to Protect
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further losses. Protection of non-
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five are listed as Endangered by IU
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HCV 2.3 Areas that Contain Populati
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Table 42. Species to be used for Ri
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negative. In this scenario, net bio
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permanent 10-‐20 km transects s
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high resolution imagery) and field
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e present in the Seruyan River insi
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The Rimba Raya Project is located i
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intentionally or unintentionally, f
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GL3. Exceptional Biodiversity Benef
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Table 44. Endangered & Critically E
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GL3.2.2. Species with Large but Clu
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Gibbs, H., (2008) Carbon payback ti
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