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Oil Palm Plantation and the Orangutan: The Way Out ?

Oil Palm Plantation and the Orangutan: The Way Out ?. Eko Hari Yuwono , Suci Utami Atmoko Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation. Introduction. BOS F as local NGO work together with MoF to protect orangutans and their habitat since 1991

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Oil Palm Plantation and the Orangutan: The Way Out ?

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  1. Oil Palm Plantation and the Orangutan: The Way Out? Eko Hari Yuwono, Suci Utami Atmoko Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation

  2. Introduction • BOSF as local NGO work together with MoF to protect orangutans and their habitat since 1991 • Orangutans and their habitat are more threatened than ever • At present Oil Palm plantations are a major cause of forest loss, forest fragmentation and orangutan hunting • We need a sustainable solution NOW

  3. ORANGUTAN & THEIR HABITAT EXTINCTION • Forest fire • Illegal logging • Land conversion for oil palm plantation • Wildlife trafficing

  4. Human-orangutan conflict Competition of limited nature resources

  5. Habitat lost and fragmentation by human activity (conversion): Oil palm plantation Forest fire Logging Mining Infrastructure Cause of conflict

  6. Human-orangutan conflict at oil palm plantation started with: Process of Conflict

  7. 1. Land clearing

  8. 2. Burning

  9. 3. Young palm as main diet for orangutan

  10. 1. Starving orangutan enter the plantation Human-orangutan conflict (the victim):

  11. 2. Orangutan as pest (assumption by plantation)

  12. 3. Buried a life by the worker

  13. 4. Habitat fragmentation

  14. 5.Orangutan starving to death

  15. 6. Orangutan burning

  16. 7. Collecting bones from the killing fields

  17. 8. Baby orangutan as a pet (wildlife trafficking)

  18. Other victim…

  19. IN PRINCIPLE • Oil palms are a highly valuable crop and we need them • Enough land is available in Indonesia to support Oil palm development, however • Orangutans have a right to exist • Orangutans and people and oil palm development can co-exist • The technology to support this is available

  20. FACTS • From a small part of the oil palm plantation areas this year alone some 350+ orangutans were rescued by BOS in Central Kalimantan alone. • The present numbers of orangutans disappearing from the wild are unsustainable and will lead to orangutan extinction in the wild. • The work of BOS is merely treating symptoms even while saving many individuals; and without help it is financially no longer possible to continue the rescues. • The Oil palm industry, forestry plantations & coal mines are not doing enough to help; helping orangutans that they displace should be internalized in their programs. • Everyone benefits from a sustainable solution and everyone will suffer the consequences if we do not find a solution

  21. RESCUE AND TRANSLOCATION IN CENTRAL KALIMANTAN Cost $ 3,000/OU RESCUE

  22. Translocation Area +/-3000 ha 40 – 50 Orangutan Translocation Translocation area 10.000 ha (106 Orangutan) PBU (48 Orangutan)

  23. NUMBERS OF ORANGUTAN RESCUE FROM OIL PALM PLANTATION

  24. Working Area ofBOS • CENTRAL KALIMANTAN Program: • Nyaru Menteng Orangutan Reintroduction Project • Mawas Conservation Program • - wildlife habitat protection • - Tuanan (orangutan) and Danau Begantung (peat swamp) research center • - people empowerment • EAST KALIMANTAN Program: • Wanariset Samboja Orangutan Reintroduction Project • Samboja Lestari Program (re-forestry, sun bear sanctuary, eco-lodge)

  25. Orangutan Reintroduction Scheme infausta sick therapy quarantine Sanctuary Healthy/fausta Orangutan arrival Socialization PRE RELEASE Forest school Halfway house RELEASE

  26. www.orangutan.or.id BOSF Reintroduction Project at Wanariset Samboja East Kalimantan, Indonesia

  27. Learning to be wild

  28. SURVEY • Coordination with stakeholders to find good release sites: • Area status (protected) • No wild orangutan or very small pop. • Socio-economic, biodiversity, and carrying capacity • Socialization

  29. RELEASE Meratus 97-02, 300+ OU Sungai Wain 92-97, 82 OU

  30. Monitoring Orangutan

  31. BOSF REINTRODUCTION PROJECT AT NYARU MENTENG Central Kalimantan • Quarantine (63 OU) • Social cages (90 OU)

  32. 18 infants under 2 yrs of age • 7 baby-sisters in daytime, 3 at night • Play in forest from 06:30-17:00 Infant school……

  33. 236 individuals 47 Baby-sisters and 60 keepers Babyschool… (age 2 to 4) • Spend their days in the forest and with glee destroying as much as possible in their way • In general they are learning lots of things, but also spend a great amount of time just goofing around.

  34. 120 ha. 47 individuals 3 caretakers feed twice a day Daily observations Palas Island…

  35. Kaja 102 ha, Bangamat 40 ha. 47 orangutans on Kaja 22 orangutans on Bangamat 4-5 caretakers feed twice a day. Kaja & Bangamat Island….. • Already 8 births and all doing very well. • Daily observation

  36. BOS tries to provide information in the field on the protected status, • asks people not to kill orangutans, in schools, though villages • formulates manuals how to deal with the orangutans that lost their habitat and intrude on plantations and people gardens • Helps palm oil companies with various information and avoiding/handling the conflict (i.e. rescues of orangutans)

  37. Prepared by: Eko Hari Yuwono (BOSF) Purwo Susanto (WWF-Indonesia) Chairul Saleh (WWF-Indonesia) Noviar Andayani (UI/WCS-IP) Didik Prasetyo (UNAS) Sri Suci Utami Atmoko (UNAS/OC)

  38. WWF Netherlands

  39. CHALLANGE: Kalimantan Forest landcover 2000 Orangutan 2003 (red) Oil palm concession 2002

  40. 2. Orangutan Inventory and implementation of BMP in oil palm plantations (all visited companies who have conflict with orangutan)

  41. Habitat degradation is still running No save-place for orangutan Orangutan should be rescue and/or translocated, Rescue only for “emergency purposes” No site ready for orangutan release and relocation. over crowded in the Rehabilitation Center. FOREST CONVERSION FOR OIL PALM PLANTATION

  42. HEAVY DEFORESTATION IN CENTRAL KALIMANTAN

  43. In the form of : National park Protected forest Conservation forest URGENTLY NEEDED: PROTECTION THE HABITAT OF ORANGUTAN

  44. Orangutan habitat in Buntut Bali- Telaken Orangutan habitat in PT.Kalimantan Hijau Sentosa (5.000ha) and Production Forest in Cempaga- Seranau, Kotim regency (16.000ha) Orangutan habitat in Antang Kalang NON CONSERVATION FOREST WITH HIGH DENSITY OF ORANGUTAN

  45. BORNEO ORANGUTAN SURVIVAL FOUNDATION Antang Kalang Buntut Bali-telaken MAWAS PT.KHS n Kotim regency TN.SEBANGAU

  46. Forest area in Antang Kalang (hilly area 120 m asl) Five protected forest in Central Kalimantan TARGET SURVEY FOR RELEASE SITES

  47. Save the habitat, save the orangutan, save the rainforest, save the world from the global warming. How you can help usfor this programs

  48. Thank you …. BORNEO ORANGUTAN SURVIVAL FOUNDATION • Address : • Jln. Tumenggung Wiradiredja No.216, Cimahpar, Bogor Utara 16155 • INDONESIA • Telp.: +62-251–661023 / 661128, • Fax.: +62–251–660919 • Email: yayasanbos@orangutan.or.id

  49. Do they have a future?...

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