Based on the three pillars “Protect, Produce,
Restore”, the project’s objective is to make palm oil production more
sustainable and to stop deforestation. The target in Tabin landscape is to
reach 20,000 hectares of middle- and small-growers to be certified by the
Roundtable of Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) by 2025. It is also planned to create
a land-use plan to underpin sustainable agriculture and forestry and to work
with the project partners to protect the natural habitat of endangered wild
animals in Tabin Wildlife Reserve. And finally, to establish at least one
ecological corridor through restoration of forest habitats, which allow wild
animals to move freely between previously separated forests. The project
partners also want to stabilize the population of endangered species such as
the orangutans, and to minimize the human elephant conflicts in the project
area over the next five years.
The Tabin landscape covers a total of around 400,000
hectares of land – roughly four and a half times the size of Berlin. Approximately
half of this is covered by palm oil plantations. The Tabin Wildlife Reserve is
the natural habitat that safeguards many threatened and endangered species,
including around 1,250 orangutans, 350 Borneo elephants, 50 Banteng and 40
Sunda clouded leopards.