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Improving community-based carbon-stock monitoring: lessons from Batu Majang, East Kalimantan, Indonesia
Author
Subekti Rahayu and Atiek Widayati
Year
2014
Publisher
World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) Southeast Asia Regional Program
City of Publication
Bogor, Indonesia
Series Number
Brief 48
Number of Pages
4
Call Number
PB0089-15
Abstract:
The Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradationplus conservation (REDD+) mechanism that was introducedunder the United Nations Framework Convention on ClimateChange has involved reducing emissions from deforestation andforest degradation, conserving forest carbon-stock, enhancingforest carbon-stock, practising sustainable forest management andconserving biodiversity (Brofeldt et al 2014). Communities thatsurround a forest and interact with it on a daily basis, who wellunderstand the condition of the forest and who receive benefitsfrom it are potential contributors to REDD+ activities. Batu Majang Village, located in an enclave of a private concessionforest in Mahakam Hulu District in East Kalimantan Province,Indonesia, proposed to conserve a patch of about 500 ha of forestas ‘customary forest’ owing to the environmental services providedby the forest, such as water, timber, medicines and erosioncontrol. This customary forest, thus, also became a strategic areafor conserving carbon stock and the biodiversity of indigenousor endemic commercial timber and animal species, such as thehornbill, a cultural and ecological symbol of Kalimantan.
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