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Terrestrial Program

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Berau, East Kalimantan Rainforests provide ecological services, including storing hundreds of billions of tons of carbon. © YKAN

Yayasan Konservasi Alam Nusantara. (YKAN) believes that development and conservation can happen simultaneously.

Terrestrial Program supports sustainable and low emission forestry practices based on science and encourages multi-party collaboration between government, corporations, and the public in the form of aligned partnership. These efforts are manifested in four strategies:

  • to Wungun Forest of the Mapnan People in Long Duhung, Berau, Kalimantan Timur

    Community-Led Conservation

    YKAN supports community empowerment through SIGAP approach by facilitating rights for access and management to manage natural resources, develop sustainable livelihood, and strengthen village governance More info

  • One of the Hutan Wungun conservationist at Long Duhung Village, Berau, East Kalimantan

    Sustainable Forest Management

    YKAN supports sustainable production forest management (Pengelolaan Hutan Produksi Lestari or PHPL) by promoting mandatory PHPL certification through providing natural production forest concession technical supports More info

  • Each oil palm plant is carefully placed on a grid, with more than 100 trees for each area of ​​land the size of a football field

    Sustainable Palm Oil

    YKAN facilitates protection of high conservation value areas (HCVA) by technical support to the Government of East Kalimantan Province and Berau Regency More info

  • Gugusan Pohon Rasau di Danau Gambut Desa Muara Siaran, Kabupaten Kutai Kartanegara.

    Peatland Conservation

    Restoring Indonesia's peatlands is essential to reducing emissions and protecting the ecosystem. YKAN and partners conduct research and restoration in Kalimantan and Jambi to support science-based policies and community involvement in peat protection More info

Tackling Climate Change A sustainable world in 2050 is possible if we work together, pacing under the same vision, and creating new collaboration.

Terrestrial Program Goals By 2030:

  • Hutan lestari

    11M

    11 million ha of forests are sustainably managed.

  • Logging

    2M

    2 million hectares of forests are avoided from conversion.

  • Co2 icon

    56M

    contributing to 56 Million tCO2e/year emission reduction and improving the well-being of 56,000 people.

To view the previous report click here.

Deliberating Long Duhung village, Berau Regency, East Kalimantan. © Christianus Djoka
Berau, East Kalimantan The diversity of flora and fauna in Indonesia is among the highest in the world, much higher than South America and Africa, which also have tropical climates. © YKAN
Mapping YKAN worked together with corporation partners to practice Reduced Impact Logging Carbon (RIL-C). © Bridget Besaw
Nyadeng Lake Located in Merabu Village, Berau Regency, East Kalimantan, Lake Nyadeng, a Merabu ecotourism icon, is an oasis in the middle of the karst forest. © YKAN
Oil palm harvest Sustainable oil palm plantation is one of YKAN’s efforts in encouraging alternative economic sources in East Kalimantan. © YKAN