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The utilization of rosewood (Dalbergia latifolia Roxb.) by local community in Indonesia has opened a Pandora’s box for the fate of its conservation status

XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022









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    Conservation and utilization of natural orchids using a collaborative action model in the Lore Lindu Biosphere Reserve, Sulawesi, Indonesia
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    Lore Lindu National Park (LLNP) as the core zone of the Lore Lindu Biosphere Reserve in Central Sulawesi is home to a unique biodiversity. In the last decade, over exploitation of orchids and illegal timber logging caused a reduction of more than 50% of the orchid population and about 10% of orchids diversity in their natural habitat. Nowadays, there are 31 species remaining and 3 of them are endemic to Sulawesi. In 2015, the LLNP authority (BBTNLL) began conducting research on orchid gardens growing in the National Park. Based on the research results the NP authority has built a conservation model for orchids through the education of pupils by combining ex-situ and in-situ conservation efforts through collaborative action methods to increase public awareness and restocking/restoration of orchids to their natural habitat. The NP authority used the model for conserving orchids for an educational program in cooperation with one local senior high school (SMA). The conservation-based education is carried out in four stages; (i) scoping areas and target locations, (ii) preparation of local content education materials, (iii) orchid conservation education and restocking by taking at least 3 samples per species in pure lines), (iv) replicating the results of conservation education as lessons-learned. The result of the implementation of this model is the establishment of an orchid education project based on a conservation agreement between the NP authority and the SMA. Today, students, but also spontaneously formed women's groups cooperate in protecting, breeding and restocking of orchids. In total, students and women groups have already successfully restored 465 orchid plants. Thus, the local population has made an important contribution to the conservation of the remaining 31 orchid species. Of this amount at least 25% was restored in the natural forest to increase the populations in-situ. Further, two other schools adopted this project as best practice for ecological education. Beside all this, some women gain income by selling breed orchids. Thus, beside a high ecological and conservation value, this initiative of the NP auhority also has an economic value. Key words. Forest, Biodiversity, Restoration, Endemic Species, Participatory, Education ID: 3486083
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    Social forestry programs: A responsible investment to support sustainable forest management and provide alternative income for local communities, Indonesia
    XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
    2022
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    Community-Based Forest Management (CBFM) has had a long experience in Indonesia to support the sustainable forest management. The CBFM approach has evolved into a new model, i.e., Social Forestry (SF). The SF drives to a more legal access from local community to utilize forest area. This SF opens opportunity for a more responsible investment by private sector to create cooperation’s with community organizations. The Forest Investment Program-1 implements CBFM through SF and has conducted activities in 17 villages, targeted a 17,000 ha into an agreement between communities with FMU and private sectors. A SWOT analysis is used to identify potential commodities in the targeted village and also to assess capacity of community organization. Interviews and focused group discussions were conducted to facilitate the development of a proposed cooperation with external parties for potential investment. Within the FIP-1 villages, there are five licenses for Social Forestry. Additionally, 6 new licenses are in the process. A total of USD 5 Million investment is planned for 17 villages. In average, for those 5 villages that has obtained SF licenses, a total of USD 1.6 Million have been invested in creating alternative livelihood, including USD 100 K/village for bee keeping, aquaculture and handicraft business development, USD 1.3 M for forestry program, and USD 222 K for village infrastructure program. Keywords: social forestry, sustainable forest management, Kalimantan, community forest ID: 3488277
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    Reorientation in management and utilization of non-timber forest products commodity based on the local knowledge under new forest management unit in Indonesian New Guinea
    XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
    2022
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    Non-timber Forest Products have played the important roles to the entire livelihoods of the indigenous community living inside and outside the forest areas. These non-wood products are being ignored because of several reasons ranging from inadequate of formal regulations, which are mostly focused on timber harvesting,lack of data on their distributions in nature, less capital investment to their diversities is enormous made them difficult to put in the nomination focus. It seems that these forest product commodities are being neglected despite of their irreplaceable contribution of local and indigenous community in fulfilling their daily foods, energy, medicinal plants, protein, and other essential substances. Utilization of non-timber forest products in Indonesian New Guinea could be divided into seven classifications such as a) staple foods for carbohydrates, vitamin, mineral, protein and lipid, b) energy for daily cooking and warming traditional house or huts, c) material for traditional constructions of sea or river transportation, housing wall and roofing, d) sources of medicinal plants and herbs from nature, e) raw material for traditional handcraft (dyeing, natural fibres, sculpture), f) an extra income and informal works by direct selling their harvested non-timber commodities when their necessities are fulfilled, g) customary land right that could not be sold, transferred or replaced as natural forest providing shelter for ancestors, inspirations, magic, and others. Utilization of non-timber forest products have to be focused with local products already existed, and intervention could be focused for value added purposes such as branding, labeling, packaging, standardization, and marketing chain implemented as the new directions to improve direct contributions to local and indigenous community. Keywords: reorientation, Non-timber forest products, Indigenous knowledge, Indonesian New Guinea ID: 3486665

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