TY - JOUR
T1 - Tropical forest and peatland conservation in Indonesia
T2 - challenges and directions
AU - Harrison, Mark E.
AU - Ottay, Juliarta Bramansa
AU - D’Arcy, Laura J.
AU - Cheyne, Susan M.
AU - ., Anggodo
AU - Belcher, Claire
AU - Cole, Lydia
AU - Dohong, Alue
AU - Ermiasi, Yunsiska
AU - Feldpausch, Ted
AU - Gallego-Sala, Angela
AU - Gunawan, Adib
AU - Höing, Andrea
AU - Husson, Simon J.
AU - Kulu, Ici P.
AU - Soebagio, Siti Maimunah
AU - Mang, Shari
AU - Mercado, Lina
AU - Morrogh-Bernard, Helen C.
AU - Page, Susan E.
AU - Priyanto, Rudy
AU - Ripoll Capilla, Bernat
AU - Rowland, Lucy
AU - Santos, Eduarda M.
AU - Schreer, Viola
AU - Sudyana, I. Nyoman
AU - Taman, Supardi Bin Bakeri
AU - Thornton, Sara A.
AU - Upton, Caroline
AU - Wich, Serge A.
AU - van Veen, F. J. Frank
N1 - This paper stemmed from discussions at a workshop held in Cornwall, UK, for which we thank the Biotechnology and Biosciences Research Council (BBSRC) through a GCRF‐IAA grant to the University of Exeter, and Borneo Nature Foundation (BNF) for funding. M.E.H.'s drafting of this paper was supported financially by BNF and A.H.'s research was funded through a doctoral scholarship by DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service).
PY - 2019/11/19
Y1 - 2019/11/19
N2 - Tropical forests and peatlands provide important
ecological, climate and socio‐economic benefits from the local to the
global scale. However, these ecosystems and their associated benefits
are threatened by anthropogenic activities, including agricultural
conversion, timber harvesting, peatland drainage and associated fire.
Here, we identify key challenges, and provide potential solutions and
future directions to meet forest and peatland conservation and
restoration goals in Indonesia, with a particular focus on Kalimantan.Through a round‐table, dual‐language workshop
discussion and literature evaluation, we recognized 59 political,
economic, legal, social, logistical and research challenges, for which
five key underlying factors were identified. These challenges relate to
the 3Rs adopted by the Indonesian Peatland Restoration Agency
(Rewetting, Revegetation and Revitalization), plus a fourth R that we
suggest is essential to incorporate into (peatland) conservation
planning: Reducing Fires.Our analysis suggests that (a) all challenges have
potential for impact on activities under all 4Rs, and many are
inter‐dependent and mutually reinforcing, implying that narrowly focused
solutions are likely to carry a higher risk of failure; (b) addressing
challenges relating to Rewetting and Reducing Fire is critical for
achieving goals in all 4Rs, as is considering the local socio‐political
situation and acquiring local government and community support; and (c)
the suite of challenges faced, and thus conservation interventions
required to address these, will be unique to each project, depending on
its goals and prevailing local environmental, social and political
conditions.With this in mind, we propose an eight‐step adaptive
management framework, which could support projects in both Indonesia and
other tropical areas to identify and overcome their specific
conservation and restoration challenges.
AB - Tropical forests and peatlands provide important
ecological, climate and socio‐economic benefits from the local to the
global scale. However, these ecosystems and their associated benefits
are threatened by anthropogenic activities, including agricultural
conversion, timber harvesting, peatland drainage and associated fire.
Here, we identify key challenges, and provide potential solutions and
future directions to meet forest and peatland conservation and
restoration goals in Indonesia, with a particular focus on Kalimantan.Through a round‐table, dual‐language workshop
discussion and literature evaluation, we recognized 59 political,
economic, legal, social, logistical and research challenges, for which
five key underlying factors were identified. These challenges relate to
the 3Rs adopted by the Indonesian Peatland Restoration Agency
(Rewetting, Revegetation and Revitalization), plus a fourth R that we
suggest is essential to incorporate into (peatland) conservation
planning: Reducing Fires.Our analysis suggests that (a) all challenges have
potential for impact on activities under all 4Rs, and many are
inter‐dependent and mutually reinforcing, implying that narrowly focused
solutions are likely to carry a higher risk of failure; (b) addressing
challenges relating to Rewetting and Reducing Fire is critical for
achieving goals in all 4Rs, as is considering the local socio‐political
situation and acquiring local government and community support; and (c)
the suite of challenges faced, and thus conservation interventions
required to address these, will be unique to each project, depending on
its goals and prevailing local environmental, social and political
conditions.With this in mind, we propose an eight‐step adaptive
management framework, which could support projects in both Indonesia and
other tropical areas to identify and overcome their specific
conservation and restoration challenges.
KW - Fire
KW - Forest
KW - Kalimantan
KW - Peat-swamp forest
KW - Restoration
KW - Revegetation
KW - Revitalization
KW - Rewetting
U2 - 10.1002/pan3.10060
DO - 10.1002/pan3.10060
M3 - Article
SN - 2575-8314
VL - Early View
JO - People and Nature
JF - People and Nature
ER -
