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Economic incentives to conserve orangutan habitat
Dr. Johannes Refisch, UNEP GRASP
January 2012
Sabah Wildlife Conservation Colloquium
GRASP: a UN-led partnershipRegistered as WSSD Type II Partnership
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• UNEP and UNESCO
• Convention secretariats: CBD, CITES, CMS, WHC, Ramsar
• 23 great ape range states
• Over 40 NGOs, 4 private businesses
• Donors governments and foundations
Threats
• Habitat loss and fragmentation
(logging, agriculture, mining…)
• Poaching & Bushmeat
• Diseases such as Ebola
• Conflict and instability
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SpeciesChimpanzee Bonobo Gorilla Orangutan
How can we provide economic incentives to conserve orangutan habitat?
• We compared two pilot sites, the swamp
forest in Tripa and mountain forest in Batang
Toru, both Sumatra
• We calculated potential income from REDD+
and other forms of payment for ecosystem
services and compared these figures with
income from current land use forms
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Batang Toru, non-peatland, mountain forest
Deforestation driver: Encroachment by migrants, illegal logging, plantation expansion, potential road development
Opportunities:
Carbon, Water, SFM, Tourism, NTFP
Tripa, peatland, swamp forest
•Deforestation driver: Conversion of forest into oil palm plantations
•Opportunities:
Carbon, Water, SFM, Tourism, NTFP
Net present values for different land uses are from Tata and van Noordwijk (2010), carbon prices from Butler et al. 2009
In Tripa, if forest patches are conserved inside oil palm plantations, a minimum price of 5.2 USD/tCO2 would be needed to offset profit made from business as usual scenario where forest patches are converted.
Conclusions and recommendations• The carbon value of forests on non-peatlands is estimated at USD
3,711 – 11,185 per ha for a 25-year period. This value is higher than that for all other land uses assessed (agroforestry, sustainable logging and coffee, among others) except for oil palm, which has a value in the range of that of carbon (Net Present Value of USD 7,832 per ha).
• For forests on peatlands the range of net present values for carbon credits from avoided deforestation (USD 7,420 – 22,090 per ha for a 25-year period) are sufficient to offset the opportunity costs for the conversion of primary forest to oil palm plantation.
• Including the value of other ecosystem services (USD 3,735 per ha for a 30-year period) in the comparison could make forest conservation even more competitive than that of all alternative land uses.
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Conclusions and recommendations
Focus further resource development including planned expansion of oil palm plantations on low current use value lands taking into account all social and environmental implications
Transformation from an economy based on consumptiveuse to a green economy based on non-consumptive use
provides many
•new jobs
•low carbon footprint
•equity
•sustainability
•Increase adaptive capacity
Opportunities:
Case for holistic approaches
• Traditonal Integrated Conservation and Development Projects (ICDPs) generated additional income, but funding leveragedcannot compete with drivers of deforestation and forestdegradation.
• These drivers include
•Energy
•Timber supply
•Small scale agriculture
•Large scale agrobusiness including oil palm
Transformation Gap
Integrated Conservation
and Development Projects
(IDPs)
Transformation
gap
Income from traditional ICDPs is not sufficient to sustain thetransformation process
Addressing the drivers will need to raiseadditional funds, e.g. private and public
Climate Change and REDD+ (Reduced Emissions through deforestationand degradation) one way to kickstart the transformation process
For forests, estimates suggest that € 4 per tonne of carbon dioxide would be a sufficient incentive to reduce current deforestation rates by 25% by 2015
Public funding to accessperformance payment
Private funding forperformance payment
Leverage funding forinvestments intoother forest andincome sources(water, tourism, timber, energy)