Experience Gedepahala Corridor Programme

Forest Landscape Restoration:Gedepahala Corridor Program

Herwasono Soedjito*Conservation International Indonesia

**Indonesian Institute of Sciences - LIPI

Prana Dewi Resort, Bali, 12 – 15 May 2009

Gedepahala Corridor Program

• Last mountain rainforest in Java • Covered areas 135.332 ha

• Gunung Gede Pangrango National Parks ± 21.975 ha• Gunung Halimun Salak National Parks ± 113.357 ha

• Home to Java’s most threatened species: Owa jawa (Hylobates moloch), Elang jawa (Spizaetus bartelsi), Surili (Presbytis comata) dan Macan tutul jawa (Panthera pardus melas)

• Primary water catchment for 20 million people

Gunung Gede Pangrango NP Gunung Halimun Salak NP

Background

– GOAL: Ensure the continuity and sustainability of functions and role of a National Park as natural resources for the human race

– PERIOD: 5 years (2008 - 2012)

– TARGETS: Water catchments function; Critical land rehabilitation, focusing on upstream areas; Community participation; Private sector participation; Public awareness on the interconnectivity of all lives, both upstream and downstream

Gedepahala Corridor Program

GEDEPAHALA LANDSCAPE• By 2011, 135,000 hectares of biodiversity habitat in

the GEDEPAHALA corridor are functioning and sustainable by creating a “green wall” of vegetation to demarcate and secure the borders.

•Forest rehabilitation•Tree adoption•Species conservation•Awareness & Communication

Map of Gedepahala

• Create vegetation to demarcate and secure the borders

• Tree adoption – forest restoration• Hydrology study • Pilot project on micro-hydro electric power

for community livelihood with YBUL.

A “green wall”

DEGRADED LANDex Perhutani

Damaged Areas in the Parks : 9,823.50 Ha

HABITAT PROTECTION

“GREEN WALLS” Project

• Socialization and consultations• Social-economic research • Transit nursery and 50,000 seedlings• Conservation education and awareness • Biodiversity research • Ecotourism development • Preparing for planting on 200 ha lands

Daikin’s “GREEN WALLS” Project

Tree planting & community agro-forestry

Habitat Protection: ADOPT TREES Menteri Keuangan

Menteri PerdaganganMenteri Kesehatan

Menteri Pemberdayaan WanitaDeputi Bank Indonesia

IBU MENANAM

Habitat Protection: ADOPT TREES

q PDI Perjuangan (10 ha)q PWC (10 ha)q HSBC (2 ha)q Green Radio (10 ha)q DNP (5 ha)

Adopters

Plant fruit trees – gardenCanar – Smilax sp.Saninten – FagaceaeRabbit and goat raising

LIVELIHOOD

GEDEPAHALABy 2018, Sundaland viable populations of threatened and restricted range species in other Key Biodiversity Areas are conserved through long-term conservation management.

Javan Gibbon – rehabilitation programJavan Leopard – camera trappingJavan Eagle

Species conservation:JAVAN LEOPARDØ 20 camera traps placedØ High number of leopard pictures Ø The cub picture, an evidence still productiveØ High diversity of preyØ Re-evaluation for new assessment of the status

Population and Distribution of Javan Leopard in GGNP

Species Conservation: JAVAN GIBBON

Ø Rescue and rehabilitation program at JGCØ 27 gibbons (20 gibbons already paired)Ø 3 pairs already for release Ø Preparing for release siteØ Javan Gibbon ACTION PLAN

JAVAN GIBBON CENTER

MEDIA COVERED:• New York Time (US) • CNN (US)• PBS Partisan pictures (US)• 60 minutes program (Australia)• Red Communication (Malaysia)• Tempo• Pikiran Rakyat, etc•

Environment Services

• Pilot project on micro-hydro electric power for community livelihood with Yayasan Bina Usaha Lingkungan.

• Ecotourism.• Etc.

CIBODAS BIOSPHERE RESERVE108.000 Ha.

SukarajaSUKABUMI

Selabintana

Cimungkat

Nagrak

Bodogol

Cimande

Tapos

Cisarua

Gunung Mas

Puncak

CIANJUR

BOGOR

Ciawi

Cisaat

Karang Tengah

Cibadak

Cicurug

Gadog

Cimacan

Cipanas

Gn. Putri

Sarongge

Gedeh

Gekbrong

Cisarua

G. Masigit

G.Pangrago

G. Gede

Situgunung

Cibodas

Transition area (80.104 Ha)

Core area (15.196 Ha)

Bufferzone (12.700 Ha)

UniquenessCore area: insitu conservationBufferzone: exsitu conservation

Cibodas Botanical GardenSafari GardenTea plantation

Transition area: development area

Terima Kasih

Thank You!