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The data also show that historical fire patterns may be changing. The Papua province, for example, has seen an uptick in fires in recent years. In 2015, fires alerts spiked to 14,500, compared to an average of roughly 3,200 fire alerts each year between 2001-2015. With more than 35 percent of fires detected since 2001 occurring inside protected areas and illegal burning on the rise, its relatively untouched forests are becoming increasingly threatened.

The USD 42.4 million investment in this programme is expected to leverage more than USD 185 million in co-financing. The programme will improve management of primary forests by reinforcing effective and inclusive conservation and sustainable use of protected and conserved areas, including other effective area-based conservation measures. It will support sustainable management of buffer zones around protected and conserved areas, enhance connectivity, diversify and improve livelihoods of Indigenous Peoples and local communities, increasing their resilience to socio-ecological shocks. The programme will further aim to improve governance, develop pathways for land tenure recognition, scale up financing for primary forest conservation and sustainable use, and enhance partnerships, knowledge sharing, capacity, and communications to sustain programme achievements.

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The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) will lead the Indo-Malaya Critical Forest Biome Integrated Program of the Global Environment Facility (GEF). This flagship GEF programme will support countries in conserving globally critical intact forest landscapes through interventions inside and outside protected areas.

The 63rd Council Meeting of the GEF selected IUCN to lead and FAO to co-lead the programme for their collective leadership in protected area governance and management, rights-based conservation, forest landscape governance and management, and the agriculture, forest and other land use sectors. The programme will build on the comparative strengths of IUCN and FAO to create enabling policies for integrated planning and governance reforms, by establishing partnerships and leveraging investments to maximise global environmental benefits, poverty alleviation and improved economic development.

To commence the reforestation programme in Indonesia, the planting of 1.5 million trees has begun in Tanjung Puting National Park, Kalimantan with another 60,000 trees to be planted in the Citarum River Basin, West Java by the end of the 2020 season. The AZ Forest Indonesia programme marks the start of the local partnership through a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to plant 10 million trees in Tanjung Puting National Park, Kalimantan with local partner, Friends of the National Park Foundation and another 10 million trees in the Citarum River Basin, West Java with local partner, Trees4Trees. The overall programme will support a healthy environment.

While we stayed at a villa in Seminyak, we made sure to get out and explore other parts of Bali on day trips. One was to Ubud, the renowned spot for yogis, stunning forest views, and some of the best Bali photo opportunities. The two main attractions we saw during the day were the Bali Swing and the Ubud Monkey Forest.

In 2010, Norway pledged up to $1 billion to help Indonesia reduce greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation, with payment based on results. As deforestation rates fell in 2017, Indonesia is set to receive its first payment under the deal between the two country this year.

Informed by local intelligence, Syaf said there had been a significant increase in illegal logging and forest conversion into palm oil and coffee plantations during the pandemic compared to last year.

The proposed omnibus bill would scrap the obligation to carry out environmental and social impact assessments for new business licenses, remove a requirement for all regions to maintain a minimum of 30% of their territory as forest area, and eliminate a strict liability rule that compels companies to protect their land from fires.

Habitat: Naturally found in forest, but appears to be able to adapt to encroachment by humans and can be found in treed neighborhoods and city parks. Is almost always found on tree trunks and branches well above the ground.

In response to unsustainable timber production in tropical forest concessions, voluntary forest management certification programs such as the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) have been introduced to improve environmental, social, and economic performance over existing management practices. However, despite the proliferation of forest certification over the past two decades, few studies have evaluated its effectiveness. Using temporally and spatially explicit village-level data on environmental and socio-economic indicators in Kalimantan (Indonesia), we evaluate the performance of the FSC-certified timber concessions compared to non-certified logging concessions. Employing triple difference matching estimators, we find that between 2000 and 2008 FSC reduced aggregate deforestation by 5 percentage points and the incidence of air pollution by 31%. It had no statistically significant impacts on fire incidence or core areas, but increased forest perforation by 4 km2 on average. In addition, we find that FSC reduced firewood dependence (by 33%), respiratory infections (by 32%) and malnutrition (by 1 person) on average. By conducting a rigorous statistical evaluation of FSC certification in a biodiversity hotspot such as Indonesia, we provide a reference point and offer methodological and data lessons that could aid the design of ongoing and future evaluations of a potentially critical conservation policy.

Like in many other locations, establishing tenure in the form of forest logging concessions has often not been effective due to conflicting incentives and ineffective government responses [8,9]. In principle, traditional concessions employ the Indonesian Selective Cutting and Planting System (TPTI), which sets rotation time and the diameter of the harvested trees, necessitates replanting in the presence of low natural restocking rates and bans on logging on sensitive areas, but does not require reduced logging techniques [10]. However, the TPTI implementation has been flawed [10]. Furthermore, even when logging companies hold the formal rights over concessions, communities living in or around the concession land, especially those that are reliant on natural resources for their livelihoods, can also contribute to deforestation and degradation [11,12]. For example, in Berau District (East Kalimantan), about 150,000 cubic meters of timber (21% of all timber from the district) in 2000 were harvested by different illegal operations involving local communities [11]. These trends are likely to persist in Indonesia: Timber has become a significant source of revenue both for local governments and local communities because of the political and administrative decentralization process that began in 2001, coupled with the weak enforcement capabilities of the government [13,14]. Thus, because of mismanagement, deforestation and forest degradation due to uncontrolled logging and wildfires combined with the conversion of logged forests into oil palm plantations, the area of traditional logging concessions decreased from 59 million ha in 1990 to 25 million ha in 2011 [10].

Very few studies have attempted to examine the causal impacts of the FSC program using a quasi-experimental approach. Brandt et al (2014) examine how the source of foreign capital (which presumably could influence the extent of compliance with sustainable forestry) impacts deforestation in the Congo basin, but do not focus on policies per se, including FSC certification [27]. Using data from community forest management associations in Acre, Brazil, de Lima et al (2008) to find some evidence that FSC increased awareness of regulations and management plans, better waste disposal, better use of fire, and restrictions on hunting [28]. Medjibe et al (2013) examine whether number of damaged trees, length of skid trails, width of logging roads, changes in species composition and loss in the above-ground-biomass is different on a FSC certified plot compared to adjacent conventional logging plot in Gabon [29]. Cerutti et al (2011) argue that FSC reduced harvested timber volumes by 18% in Cameroon [30]. However, the design of the latter two studies does not allow for statistically rigorous inference. Collectively, these studies confirm the lessons from recent reviews of better management practices for timber and for forest certification that very few studies use a statistically rigorous empirical design in general, focus on tropical forests and on Asia [20,23,31].

Following numerous calls for evaluating the performance of certification programs [20,23,32], we present the first statistically rigorous evaluation of the environmental and socio-economic impacts of FSC certification in Kalimantan. To our knowledge, this is one of very few studies filling the important knowledge gap regarding whether or not FSC helps preserves forests and improves the socio-economic dimensions of human wellbeing in a setting where it potentially matters most. Compared to our effort, most of the literature comprises of consulting reports with unknown scientific protocol for data collection and analysis, micro-ecological studies of limited scale (e.g., a few plots in idiosyncratic landscapes) and limited scope (e.g., ignore poverty and other socio-economic outcomes) or rhetorical policy opinion pieces. More generally, our work responds directly to recent reviews and calls for rigorous evaluation of conservation policies [26,33,34].

We focus on the impact of the FSC forest management certification program between 2000 and 2008 in Kalimantan (Fig 1, Table 1). A blend of practicality and innovation influenced the choice of data used in our analysis. For example, the spatial and temporal frames were determined by the data availability. Because only two FSC concessions were established outside Kalimantan (in Sulawesi and Sumatra) prior to 2008 and because there are no reliable spatial boundaries for the original (pre-2008) concessions in Sumatra and Sulawesi, we did not include them in our analysis. While some firms applied for FSC certification as early as 2000, most completed the process in 2006 (or very close to 2006). For this reason, we use 2006 to mark of the start of FSC certification for the concessions in our sample and treat the year 2000 as our baseline. e24fc04721