Country:
Indonesia
Date:
2017
Implementor:
Yayasan Hutanriau
Funding Amount:
9,900
Details:
The project successfully mapped 550 hectares of Bukit Betabuh protected forest to complete the application for a Social Forestry permit, as well as the planting of approximately 30 hectares of jernang, an important forest product in the area. Forest farmer groups are patrolling the jernang with the added benefit of monitoring illegal logging and encroachment in the protected forest. A new forest farmer group with 27 members was formed in a neighbouring village. Finally, the project identified NTFPs with the potential of being cultivated in the protected forest. Of the initial nine proposed, community members settled on sialang (Koompassia excelsa) tree cultivated honey.