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JAKARTA (FORESTHINTS.NEWS) - On Global Tiger Day this year, which coincides with the Chinese year of the tiger, Indonesia has its Forestry and Other Land Use (FOLU) NET SINK 2030 operational plan in place. Launched by the country’s Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya in March, it includes substantial legal provisions aimed at protecting the Sumatran tiger.
This means that, as part of the country’s efforts to achieve its FOLU NET SINK 2030 climate target, Indonesia is also prioritizing the conservation and protection of key wildlife species, including the Sumatran tiger, as well as their habitat.
Minister Nurbaya has expressed optimism on various occasions that the Sumatran tiger will never face extinction and that instead its population will continue to grow and thrive given the huge expanse of its habitat still in existence.
According to Environment and Forestry Ministry datasets, almost none of the forestry and palm oil permits involving Sumatran tiger habitat were granted during the Joko Widodo presidency, but instead came from previous administrations.
As it stands, Indonesia remains home to more than 8.15 million hectares of Sumatran tiger habitat, equivalent to over 112 times the size of Singapore, spread over areas where the permanent moratorium on primary forest and peatland development is in effect, constituting up to 60% of the country’s overall Sumatran tiger habitat.
In reality, this area is even bigger considering there is additional remaining Sumatran tiger habitat in existing forestry and palm oil concessions outside the permanent moratorium map.
Technical directions
In an effort to determine how to optimize the utilization of state forest areas, the FOLU NET SINK 2030 operational plan provides technical directions pertaining to the quality of forests. These refer to measures related to the level of forest cover, high carbon stock and high conservation value (HCS/HCV) forest areas, as well as the presence of megafauna, including the Sumatran tiger.
This underlines that the FOLU NET SINK 2030 operational plan focuses on key wildlife habitat, in this case that of the Sumatran tiger, as a technical measure in determining how to optimize the utilization of the state forest areas.
The FOLU NET SINK 2030 operational plan also stresses the role of law enforcement, encompassing partnership-based community and relevant stakeholder monitoring efforts, in ensuring the conservation and protection of flagship species against poaching, illegal trading and encroachment, including and especially of the Sumatran tiger and its habitat.
The conservation and protection of key wildlife habitat - including those remaining areas in which the Sumatran tiger lives - from deforestation also forms part of the efforts outlined in the FOLU NET SINK 2030 operational plan.
Looked at comprehensively, it is technically conclusive that the FOLU NET SINK 2030 operational plan ensures efforts to conserve and protect areas inhabited by the Sumatran tiger, which also contain habitat of other key wildlife species, take place not only in conservation areas and protection forests, but also in areas beyond these, both inside and outside of state forest areas.
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JAKARTA (FORESTHINTS.NEWS) - On Global Tiger Day this year, which coincides with the Chinese year of the tiger, Indonesia has its Forestry and Other Land Use (FOLU) NET SINK 2030 operational plan in place. Launched by the country’s Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya in March, it includes substantial legal provisions aimed at protecting the Sumatran tiger.
This means that, as part of the country’s efforts to achieve its FOLU NET SINK 2030 climate target, Indonesia is also prioritizing the conservation and protection of key wildlife species, including the Sumatran tiger, as well as their habitat.
Minister Nurbaya has expressed optimism on various occasions that the Sumatran tiger will never face extinction and that instead its population will continue to grow and thrive given the huge expanse of its habitat still in existence.
According to Environment and Forestry Ministry datasets, almost none of the forestry and palm oil permits involving Sumatran tiger habitat were granted during the Joko Widodo presidency, but instead came from previous administrations.
As it stands, Indonesia remains home to more than 8.15 million hectares of Sumatran tiger habitat, equivalent to over 112 times the size of Singapore, spread over areas where the permanent moratorium on primary forest and peatland development is in effect, constituting up to 60% of the country’s overall Sumatran tiger habitat.
In reality, this area is even bigger considering there is additional remaining Sumatran tiger habitat in existing forestry and palm oil concessions outside the permanent moratorium map.
Technical directions
In an effort to determine how to optimize the utilization of state forest areas, the FOLU NET SINK 2030 operational plan provides technical directions pertaining to the quality of forests. These refer to measures related to the level of forest cover, high carbon stock and high conservation value (HCS/HCV) forest areas, as well as the presence of megafauna, including the Sumatran tiger.
This underlines that the FOLU NET SINK 2030 operational plan focuses on key wildlife habitat, in this case that of the Sumatran tiger, as a technical measure in determining how to optimize the utilization of the state forest areas.
The FOLU NET SINK 2030 operational plan also stresses the role of law enforcement, encompassing partnership-based community and relevant stakeholder monitoring efforts, in ensuring the conservation and protection of flagship species against poaching, illegal trading and encroachment, including and especially of the Sumatran tiger and its habitat.
The conservation and protection of key wildlife habitat - including those remaining areas in which the Sumatran tiger lives - from deforestation also forms part of the efforts outlined in the FOLU NET SINK 2030 operational plan.
Looked at comprehensively, it is technically conclusive that the FOLU NET SINK 2030 operational plan ensures efforts to conserve and protect areas inhabited by the Sumatran tiger, which also contain habitat of other key wildlife species, take place not only in conservation areas and protection forests, but also in areas beyond these, both inside and outside of state forest areas.
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