Forest Management
The GER Forestry Division focuses on the protection and monitoring of forest areas on the ground and by satellite radar imagery. This work is aimed at establishing and enforcing forest boundaries, monitoring changes in forest cover for illegal logging activities and working with local law institutions and forestry officials to investigate and halt forest crimes.
One of the Forestry Division’s central approaches to forestry management is the harmonization of traditional forest conservation with local communities living in the forest. 100% of GER’s Forestry Officers come from communities living in the forests that they help protect and have undergone multiple specialized training by GER’s Senior Forest Managers and partners.
Current Projects: Malinau
Malinau Regency in East Kalimantan Province of Indonesian Borneo is home to some of GER’s initial forest management planning. Current project planning is focused on the cessation of old growth forest loss and degradation in three pilot forest areas in Malinau Regency.
By providing on-the ground monitoring and protection, the Forestry program aims to discontinue conventional logging and prevent and protect against illegal logging activities over the next 30 years.
Current Projects: Leuser
The Leuser Ecosystem in Aceh Province on the island of Sumatra is the focus area for the establishment of a project level and sub-national provincial baseline to quantify the carbon stock as and REDD project.
The Leuser Ecosystem covers just over 2 million hectares of forest in the Indonesian province of Aceh. GER is in the process of establishing an REDD (Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation) project to quantify the carbon stock that is under threat on a project level and sub-national baseline.
The financial flows created by carbon credits will be used to fund sustainable development and conservation activities in line with the Governor’s Aceh Green vision, which calls for hard investments in electrification projects, agro-forestry and timber farms as well as soft investments in education, healthcare and community development.
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