Strategies to manage deforestation

Strategies to manage deforestation

Lesson Objectives

List the strategies implemented to manage the rainforests in Kalimantan

Evaluate effectiveness of one of the measures taken to manage the rainforests in Kalimantan

What is Deforestation?

The permanent clearing and destruction of forests is known as deforestation.

This reduction in the area covered by forests is due to human activities.

Strategies to manage deforestation

Ministry of Forestry

CEO of Kalimantan

Timber Pte Ltd

Local Government of

East Kalimantan

Managing the Rainforests in Kalimantan• The Ministry of Forestry(MOF)

- MOF issues licences to timber companies

and monitor their activities.

• Community involvement

- MOF involves local people such as local

governments, native people and villagers.

• Sustainable management

- refers to the careful use of resources, such as forests to

allow people to continue using the

resources in future.

Four Main Policies of MOF

• Afforestation and reforestation

• Controlled logging

• Conservation

• Controlling forest fires

Afforestation and reforestation

• Afforestation

- planting trees on areas that were not covered with forests.

• Reforestation

- planting trees in formerly forested areas that have been cleared by logging.

Controlled logging- controlled logging involves careful management of

forests that are being logged. (law enforcement & education)

e.g. Selective cutting VS clear cutting

Conservation

• - refers to the careful use of resources to protect

forests from destruction.

- e.g. setting aside as nature reserves.

Controlling forest fires• Forest fires

1. Law enforcement (make clearing forest by fire illegal)

2. Campaigns to discourage

3. Monitor forest fires through ‘Fires Protection System’ and ‘National Fire Management Plan’

Our Role in Forest Conservation

• Simple actions such as making use of both

sides of a piece of paper can help to reduce

wastage of forest resources.

• To help reduce deforestation

in other countries, we can buy

furniture made of timber

from sustainably managed

forests.

Four Main Policies of MOF

• Afforestation and reforestation

• Controlled logging

• Conservation

• Controlling forest fires

Homework

In groups, work on the PEEE table of the 4 policies

You may do it on Microsoft Word or Googledocs.

Send your completed work to me at nursyafiqahsaini@gmail.com OR transfer it to me in a thumbdrive.

Completed work will be graded and added to your CA marks.

PEEE Table: Evaluate the effectiveness of strategies implemented to manage deforestationPoint What is the policy/strategy?

Explanation •What does  this policy involve?•How does  this manage the impact of deforestation? 

Evaluation & Example (success)

•Give a specific  example of where 

this has been effective 

Evaluation & Example (limitations

•Give a specific  example of where this has limited effectiveness