Restorasi Ekosistem Riau ecosystem restoration programme continues to boost biodiversity on Riau’s Kampar Peninsula

Prefacing the report, Bey Soo Khiang, Chairman, RER Advisory Board, said: “These achievements illustrate our model where RER is complemented by production forestry, which provides the financial resources to fund restoration, as well as the protection provided by an actively managed ring of fiber plantations”.

Established by APRIL Group in 2013, RER is an ecosystem restoration programme that works to protect and restore ecologically important peatland forest within Indonesia’s Riau Province.

Located on Sumatra’s eastern coastline, RER is comprised from five government ecosystem restoration licenses totalling 150,000 hectares of peatland forest, with 130,000 hectares located on the Kampar Peninsula and an additional 20,000 ha located on nearby Padang Island. The restoration area at Kampar Peninsula is twice the size of Singapore.

Another notable highlight was the discovery of the restoration area’s 300th bird species. Known as the Blue-winged Pitta (Pitta Mollucensis), it joins several IUCN-listed endangered or rare species, and now means that representatives of 18 per cent of Indonesia’s bird species have found safe haven inside RER.

The Annual Report reflects that at the end of the year, RER’s technical staff had identified 718 species of fauna and flora, 70 species of mammals, 107 species of amphibian and reptile, 89 species of fish and 112 different types of tree and 40 non-tree species within the restoration area.

Many of these species are rare, threatened or endangered, with no fewer than 48 classified as globally threatened by IUCN, with 79 listed in the CITES Appendices, and 101 listed as a protected species under Indonesian law.
more at:  https://www.aprildialog.com/en/2018/04/12/restorasi-ekosistem-riau-ecosystem-restoration-programme-continues-to-boost-biodiversity-on-riaus-kampar-peninsula/

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