Project Abstract
This TNC ecoregional
planning document will facilitate decisions made by TNC regarding the
selections of the best places for them to work in East Kalimantan.
In particular, to
select sites that best represent
·
existing biological diversity;
·
to ensure conservation of
functional landscape scale systems; and
·
to leverage conservation gain
in East Kalimantan and elsewhere in Indonesia.
It is also expected
that this plan will influence other spatial plans in East Kalimantan to
adopt sensitive approaches to planning for biological resources as well as
for other land uses.
In East Kalimantan, ERP
is strongly dependent on the identification of repeated landscape scale
patches of rather similar target ecological systems, physiography and
climate. Then obtaining representation of these different target systems in
a portfolio of conservation sites that is ordered spatially to retain
functional elements of the overall East Kalimantan landscapes- which are
strongly dominated by large meandering rivers with extensive upper
catchments areas and substantial deltas.
Natural history
information on plants and animals at a species level is very sparse for East
Kalimantan. No plants or animals were found to have accurate and
representative distribution maps that are essential to select them as target
species for this ERP. Because of this paucity of information, target
ecological systems were selected and developed that reflect the potential
habitat variety (principally major vegetation types and their different
substrates and major rivers) and which reflect biological diversity.
Opposite is an
illustrative guide as to the process used to compile a portfolio of these
target ecological systems throughout East Kalimantan.
