![]() ![]() This expansion allows more women and youth to participate, while providing insight into the impact of traditional practices on the presence of at-risk wildlife. In 2020, to facilitate the conservation of community-managed forests adjacent to the wildlife sanctuary, the research team expanded their survey to include more forests actively used by Iban farmers. ![]() Many forest stands within Iban territories are maintained as community fruit gardens, and research has shown that these forests serve as "hot spots" for wildlife. Lanjak Entimau Wildlife Sanctuary is part of a 1.1 million hectare (2.7 million acre) transboundary area of contiguous primary forest, home to Sarawak's largest population of orangutans and bordered by a large indigenous Iban community. Since 2016, the Conservation Ecology Center team has collaborated with Sarawak Forestry Corporation to conduct camera trap studies and bi-monthly phenology surveys of important wildlife foods (fruits and seeds) within Lanjak Entimau Wildlife Sanctuary and the surrounding forest. ![]() The project's aim is to promote the sustainability of Borneo’s forests by engaging communities in the conservation of their local wildlife through traditional practices merged with conservation goals. They are working directly with local communities and protected-area staff to generate data about clouded leopards, sun bears, orangutans, pangolins and other species. Researchers are gathering baseline data on at-risk species and working to improve ecological monitoring. Throughout Sarawak, forests bordering protected areas are threatened by illegal hunting, expanding industrial agriculture and logging. Much of the expansion is expected to take place at the expense of lands used by traditional communities.Conservation Ecology Center scientists are examining how wildlife use habitats in remote communities bordering protected areas in Sarawak, Malaysia (Borneo). The government is now planning a massive scale-up in mining, hydroelectric dams, and timber plantations. Sarawak’s forests have been rapidly destroyed in recent years by industrialized logging operations and conversion to oil palm plantations. Global Forest Watch was developed over several years by the World Resources Institute, Google, and about 40 other partners. The Sarawak Geoportal comes on the heels of the release of Global Forest Watch, a platform that provides monthly deforestation alerts for all the world’s forests. Map showing areas cultivated in Sarawak before it became part of Malaysia State of Sarawak’s forests in the 1960’s compared with 2010 The importance of public access to environmental information has been recognized by the United Nations’ Aarhus Convention.” We expect that the next government will release all relevant land use data to the public. “The data have deliberately been shut away in order to facilitate the land grab by the political elite under outgoing Chief Minister Taib Mahmud. “All this information should have been made public by the Sarawak government long ago”, BMF director Lukas Straumann said. The new platform suggests the actual number is closer to 11 percent. It could help counter misinformation promulgated by officials who have made increasingly outlandish claims about the state of its forests, including an assertion in 2011 by Chief Minister of Sarawak Pehin Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud that 70 percent of Sarawak’s rainforests are intact. The tool provides greater insight into the state of Sarawak’s forests, aiming to boost transparency around land use in a state that has become notorious for mismanagement and corruption. It also shows recent deforestation and areas that will be inundated by new dams. Read more about deforestation in Borneo, then join the discussion on Facebook.Ī new online platform released by the Bruno Manser Fund reveals large-scale destruction of Sarawak’s rainforests, peatlands, and traditional lands.ĭrawing from a variety of sources, the Sarawak Geoportal includes data on logging concessions, oil palm plantations, existing and proposed dams, historical forest cover, the extent of indigenous cultivated areas, election results, and area where there are current native customary rights (NCR) disputes. Read more below to find out how they created this platform and how it works. ![]() The Bruno Manser Fund recently released a platform that allows us to see the large-scale destruction of Sarawak’s rainforests, peatlands, and traditional lands for use in palm oil plantations, timber concessions, and other environmentally damaging industries. ![]()
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