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West Papua as Conservation Province
West Papua Province contains globally significant reserves of biodiversity, and supports
unique traditional cultures. It’s forests and rivers, and coastal and marine ecosystems contain
globally significant biodiversity, and carbon stocks.
The province is now in the early stages of economic development; changes which will bring
benefits, but also threats if not well managed. To help guide this development, the province of
Papua Barat has set forth a bold vision.
The ‘Conservation Province’ policy initiative is an opportunity to set a sustainable development
pathway that aims to balance and mitigate these opportunities and risks.
West Papua’s Natural Assets
9 million
hectares
of forest
1750
reef fish
species
35 %
primary
forest intact
50 %
of Indonesia
animals and
plants species
the world's
tropical forests
carbon
of plants
found nowhere else
on earth
hold
75 %
hard coral
species in
the world
70 %
of the mangrove
forests in
Indonesia
The People of West Papua
12
major tribes with unique cultures and
languages that reflect their spiritual
connection to nature
This policy will support local livelihoods, facilitates economic growth and protect
globally significant biodiversity, and ecosystem services including carbon
sequestration.
1. Ensure the well-being of the Papuan
people by setting a course for sustainable
and equitable development that maintains
natural capital.
Land, water, and climate supports local agriculture and food production system
major
tribes
The West Papua Government’s Conservation Province policy initiative has brought
together government, non-government, community, academic and religious partners to
create a groundbreaking new pathway for sustainable development. The creation of a
provincial policy framework will links ‘green’ government planning and budget cycles
and implementing agencies and departments, with clear sustainability goals and
targets.
Strategies to Achive the Vision of ‘Conservation Province’
0.6 %
60 %
What is ‘Conservation Province’?
80%
still living
in rural areas
of Papuan still living in rural areas
with a strong reliance on
natural resources for livelihoods
existing ‘traditional natural resources management practices’ which include complex,
inter-generational tenure systems, and ‘sasi’ seasonal closure systems
2. Protect customary rights over natural
resources, to support resource-based
livelihoods in the long-term.
3. Industries developed are compatible
with the Conservation Province vision,
and industrial extractive industries or
large-scale development follow best
practice sustainability principles.
4. Globally significant biodiversity is
protected and conserved through
effective formal and informal mechanisms.
Management of biodiversity (including
endemic species, endangered,
charismatic species with ecotourism
value) also considers and mitigates
climate change impacts, and protects
carbon reserves.
5. Support the West Papua Governor’s
commitment to the 2014 Rio Branco
Declaration by reducing the rate of
deforestation by 80% by 2020. Within this,
establish a clear threshold for the
proportion of lands to be managed as
protected forest and conservation areas, in
order to avoid deforestation and loss of
carbon and biodiversity.
6. Protect 30% of the essential marine,
coasstal, and estuarine ecosystem through
an effective and multiuse Marine Protected
Area (MPA) network that links land and
aquatic ecosystems.
7. Well-managed coastal fisheries support
food security and the livelihoods of coastal
communities.
8. Integrated watershed management
supports conservation and sustainable
production.
Conservation International’s Commitment to the Province of West Papua – From Ridge to Reef
CI Indonesia has a long-term commitment to supporting the sustainable development
of West Papua Province. We maintain project offices in Manokwari, Raja Ampat and
Kaimana and employ more than 40 local staff in the province. Over the last decade,
CI Indonesia has led the globally recognised Bird’s Head Seascape program, which
has seen over $50 million invested in the province to establish a network of marine
protected areas in West Papua with total areas of 3.6 million hectares. CI is using
‘build and transfer’ approach in the program, where we focus to build an effective
natural resources management capacity of the local community.
We are currently seeking financial support to develop and facilitate a landscape
approach for landscape management that considers sustainable production and
environmentally friendly. In the long term, we envisage a province-wide 'ridge-to-reef'
approach which can supports communities and government to achieve truly sustainable development.
‘Models of
engagement’
to support
community,
government and
private sector roles
Sustainable
production systems
are based on
secure natural
capital
Supports
low-carbon
development,
climate change
mitigation and
adaptation
Strong legal basis
and spatial
planning
framework
Financing
mechanisms
exist for conservation
and management
of natural capital
'From Ridge to Reef'
- CI's approach
to integrated
management
of land and sea
Incorporates
protected
areas and other
actions to achieve
biodiversity
conservation
Ecosystem-based
approach links
the land, coast
and sea
Social, economic
and cultural
outcomes
clearly defined
Adequate
institutions
and capacities
support
effective
management
West Papua Conservation areas
Conservation International Indonesia
A: Pejaten Barat 16A
Kemang, Jakarta 12550 (Address)
P: +62 21 7883 8626 ext.132
F: +62 21 780 6723
M: +62 811 910 966
www.conservation.org