Orangutan Summit

Houston Zoo

October 2014

Finding common ground:

Operationalizing conservation in an oil

palm environment.

“The Executive Committee has subscribed to the RSPO. As of today, we are going to be sustainable”

THE END

…and we are working with Farmers

First Step:

Engaging the

Managers

Society

Economy Environment

Society

Sustainable Development

Environment

Society

Economy

“Sustainability” – Understanding the concept

This objective is NOT to find a win-win solution / it is to produce sustainable palm oil (whatever that takes) --- and maybe that results in win-win

situations too.

Society

Environment

This is the sustainability concept

Sustainable

Palm oil

production

Palm oil

production

Embracing the responsibility

Sustainable Palm Oil

Agriculture

Community

Environment

Understanding the responsibility

This means;

Society

Environment

Palm oil

production

EQUAL attention!!!

Palm oil

production

Society

Environment

Equal attention is NOT necessarily equal resources

Optimization and Intensification: BMP

Rainfall Variable

Topography Constant

Vegetation Variable

Land-use

ChangeVariable

Hydrology Constant

Fertilizer

ApplicationVariable

Harvest of

FFB - YieldVariable

Optimization and Intensification

Flora and Faunal Surveys: Baseline and Detailed

Identification, preservation and management of conservation areas.

Rehabilitation of suitable degraded areas

Advice on Integrating BioD into Estate Operations and Best Management Practices

What’s an HCV?

The HCV areas are defined as follows:

HCV1: areas containing globally, regionally or nationally significant concentrations of biodiversity values (e.g., endemism, endangered species)

HCV2: areas containing globally, regionally or nationally significant large landscape natural habitats, contained within, or containing, the management unit, where viable populations of most if not all naturally occurring species exist in natural patterns of distribution and abundance.

HCV3: areas that are in or contain rare, threatened or endangered ecosystems.

HCV4: areas that provide basic services of nature in critical situations (e.g., watershed protection, erosion control).

HCV5: areas fundamental to meeting basic needs of local communities (e.g., subsistence, health).

HCV6: areas critical to local communities’ traditional cultural identity (areas of cultural, ecological, economic or religious significance identified in co-operation with such local communities).

:

Orangutan = 0 Sunbear = 0

False Gharial = 0 Gibbon = 0

Conservation Biologists = 2

Bule = 1

Let’s go fishing….

47 Species of Fish

9 Endemic to Central Borneo

1 undescribed (new species?)

Camera Traps

Mist Nets (Understory Birds)

Standard Ecological Surveys compared to

“HCV Assessment”

Animal Species *Until May 2014

NO Species Common Name

IUCN

INDONESIAN LAW Endemic?

PP NO. 7 TAHUN 1999

265 Species 6 ~ 27

RSPO compared to ISPO

HCV’s not recognized under ISPO

Indonesian Regulations:

Ijin Lokasi (Concession)

IUP (Plantation Permit)

Hak Guna Usaha --- HGU

No HGU for Conservation Areas!

Now what?

Alternative: Hak Guna /Hak Pakai (Special Permit based on Management Plan)

“Monitoring and Managing Conservation Areas”

SCB ASIA Conference

MELACCA, 2014

Biodiversity Division

UNITED PLANTATIONS BHD/PT. SURYA SAWIT SEJATI

Central Kalimantan

Ultimate IPM ?

RSPO ?

Rats are considered one of the most serious pests in oil palm estates.

Rats cause damage to fruit bunches resulting in significant economic loss.

Use baits/poison to keep rat populations low

Barn owls (Tyto alba) as biological pest control

Barn owls not native to Borneo…. and not very common

Leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis) are common in many palm oil estate

Very little is known about leopard cats as rat predators in oil palm plantations

Methodology

Trap 10 leopard cats in purpose-made cage-traps

Fit them with VHF radio-transmitters

Deploy 20 camera traps in a 2000m x2500m trapping grid

Estimate rat population cat study sites using 100 small mammals traps. Use Capture-Mark-Recapture

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4

6

8

10

12

14

16

Leopard Cat

DomesticCat

Activity pattern of leopard cat and domestic cat

in an oil palm landscape

(Silmi, et al 2013)

Code: LC B

Caught: July 16, 2014.

Code: LC A

Caught: July 02, 2014 .

Home Range (Ha)

ID Species

Sex 95 % MCP

LC A M 61.77

LC B M 23.35

Movement LC A

Day 1 (m) Day 2 (m)

Daily Movemen

t

2018.63 923.26

Shrub Species Compositions

No. Species Habit

1 Ageratum conyzoides Herb

2 Eupatorium odoratum shrubs

3 Ficus aurata shrubs

4 Lycopodium sp. Fern

5 Lygodium microphyllum Liana

6 Melastoma malabathricum shrubs

7 Mikania sp. Liana

8 Mucuna sp. Liana

9 Nephrolepis sp. Fern

10 Pseuderanthemum polyanthum Herb

11 Sida acuta shrubs

12 Stenochlaena sp Fern

13 Uncaria sp. Liana

Comprehensive understanding of habitat use and dispersal of leopard cat in the oil palm landscape.

Alternative native species for Integrated Pest Management.

IMPLEMENTATION OF SMART SOFTWARE FOR PATROLING CONSERVATION AREA IN PT SSS

1. Login

2. Map of conservation area

1

3. Employee List

4. Agency and Rank List

2

5. Patrol 5a. Patrol type and transportation list

5b. Patrol Mandates list

3

5c. Patrol Teams List

5d. Patrol Stations List

4

6. Creating and selecting member for new patrol plan

5

8. Data Input

8a. Updating Track from GPS

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16 Apr 2013 15.01

PATROL REPORT APRIL 2013

1

Patrol ID Type Patrol

Start Date

Patrol

End Date

Station Team Objective Mandate Armed Patrol

Leg ID

Leader Patrol

Transport BIOD_000 Ground 11 Apr

2013

30 Apr

2013

Patrol Station Runtu Estate

Runtu

Team

Patrol for Illegal Logging

Logging

Control

false 1 Mislan Mislan [19740001

Motorbike

BIOD_000 Ground 13 Apr

2013

13 Apr

2013

BIOD HQ Lada

Team

Patrol to check the condition HCV area in Lada Estate April 2013

Law

Enforceme

false 1 Sakti Anggara Bayu Murti [19850001

Truck

BIOD_000 Ground 16 Apr

2013

30 Apr

2013

BIOD HQ Water Quality Team

To check water quality and sampling

Water

Sampling

false 1 Sakti Anggara Bayu Murti [19850001

Truck

BIOD_000 Ground 16 Apr

2013

16 Apr

2013

BIOD HQ Lada

Team

To patrol HCV area in Lada Estate

Law

Enforceme

false 1 Muhamma Silmi [19820001

Truck

Bjorn Dahlen bdahlen@gmail.com Green Harvest Environmental www.greenharvestconsulting.com Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia