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Sulbar Habitat
Sulbar
Habitat is located in the Province of Sulawesi Barat on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia. It covers more than 1 million hectares, includes all the forests of the Province and touches the lives of some 1 million people in one of the poorest parts of Indonesia.
Sulbar
Habitat is located in the Province of Sulawesi Barat on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia. It covers more than 1 million hectares, includes all the forests of the Province and touches the lives of some 1 million people in one of the poorest parts of Indonesia.
The Sulbar Habitat Model
Our Sulbar Habitat model is innovative. It is based on principles of sustainable forest management. Our model is implemented with the consent of communities, businesses and all levels of government because they are all stakeholders in the forests.
Initially, we employ people to establish forest plantations on degraded landscapes next to areas of virgin forest. Employment gives an incentive to protect the virgin forest. It raises awareness of the value of the forest. On-ground activities give on-ground protection from deforestation.
Once the initial area of virgin forest is protected, we can measure the carbon emission saved by stopping deforestation. These carbon credits can be sold. Much of the revenue from the sale of carbon credits is then re-invested in helping establish more forest plantations to protect other virgin forest areas. In turn, this provides additional carbon revenue to help establish more plantations to protect more virgin forest. And so the cycle of employment, planting, protection, carbon revenue, and re-investment continues.
With the Sulbar Habitat model, we re-invest much of the carbon revenue generated from stopping deforestation. This benefits both people and forests. The result is economically sustainable communities who benefit from sustainably managed natural forests. Communities prosper from a sustainable supply of plantation timber and new timber industries. In this way, individual prosperity is directly linked to forest protection, reforestation and sustainable forest management. It’s win, win, win.
More about Sulbar Habitat
Since then we have redesigned and refinanced Sulbar Habitat because of the global financial crisis.
We are currently negotiating with financial institutions for them to be the Finance Partner in Sulbar Habitat and to raise initial funding for the redesigned Sulbar Habitat.
Our Indonesian partners and stakeholders in Sulbar Habitat include PT Inhutani I, the Provincial and District Governments of Sulawesi Barat, PT Sulwood leading a consortium of forest concession holders, and the Indonesian Ministry of Forestry. We are represented in Indonesia by PT Empat Delapan Saudara.
Download our new and easy to read Sulbar Habitat leaflet here
