Towards sustainable management of peat swamp forest: A case study of Loagan Bunut National Park, Sarawak, Malaysia.
| dc.creator | PIPOC 2007 International Palm Oil Congress Palm oil: Empowering change | |
| dc.creator | Efransjah, E. | |
| dc.creator | Hj Sapuan Ahmad | |
| dc.creator | Landong, Wilfred | |
| dc.creator | Liam, Jack | |
| dc.creator | Sayok, Alexander K. | |
| dc.creator | Malaysian Palm Oil Board, MPOB | |
| dc.date | 2007. | |
| dc.description | Peat swamp forests (PSF) are unique habitats for flora and fauna, with a high proportion of endemic species. They play an important role in stabilizing the ecosystem, particularly in the control of flood, microclimate, water purification and soil formation. They serve as gene banks of potentially useful varieties of plant species. Most peatlands in Sarawak are located behind the coastline with some extend along the lower reaches of the major rivers. Logging in Sarawak in the 1950s started in the PSF. Logged-over forests do recover naturally to some extent when left to regenerate and where logging intensity is low. Since the 1970s extensive agriculture developments were undertaken in peatlands as areas with mineral soils become exhausted. This move had decreased PSF in Sarawak which stood at 1,455,000 ha in the 1970s to just 320,000 ha within the Permanent Forest Estate by 2004. Utilisation of PSF for development necessitates clearfelling followed by drainage which inevitably cause drastic and irreversible change to the PSF following changes in the hydrological regime. These approach threaten the ability of the remaining swamp to play their roles calling for a more holistic management. Although fundamental rules of sustainable forest management used in other forest types also is applicable to PSF and to some extent silvicultural treatment in PSF reap some degree of successes, it is the precautionary principles that need consideration, as PSF are different ecologically in terms of hydro-pedological and biodiversity aspects. The Peat Swamp Forest Project (MAL/99/G31) is an initiative of the Government of Malaysia with the assistance of United Nations Development Programme/Global Environment Facility (UNDP/GEF) in three sites in Malaysia. Started in June 2002, this Project aims to promote conservation and sustainable use of PSF and associated wetland ecosystems in Malaysia. The paper discusses on how the Project attempts to manage the PSF in three sites in Malaysia with more emphasis given to the Project site at Loagan Bunut National Park, Sarawak. | |
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| dc.description | Peat swamp forests (PSF) are unique habitats for flora and fauna, with a high proportion of endemic species. They play an important role in stabilizing the ecosystem, particularly in the control of flood, microclimate, water purification and soil formation. They serve as gene banks of potentially useful varieties of plant species. Most peatlands in Sarawak are located behind the coastline with some extend along the lower reaches of the major rivers. Logging in Sarawak in the 1950s started in the PSF. Logged-over forests do recover naturally to some extent when left to regenerate and where logging intensity is low. Since the 1970s extensive agriculture developments were undertaken in peatlands as areas with mineral soils become exhausted. This move had decreased PSF in Sarawak which stood at 1,455,000 ha in the 1970s to just 320,000 ha within the Permanent Forest Estate by 2004. Utilisation of PSF for development necessitates clearfelling followed by drainage which inevitably cause drastic and irreversible change to the PSF following changes in the hydrological regime. These approach threaten the ability of the remaining swamp to play their roles calling for a more holistic management. Although fundamental rules of sustainable forest management used in other forest types also is applicable to PSF and to some extent silvicultural treatment in PSF reap some degree of successes, it is the precautionary principles that need consideration, as PSF are different ecologically in terms of hydro-pedological and biodiversity aspects. The Peat Swamp Forest Project (MAL/99/G31) is an initiative of the Government of Malaysia with the assistance of United Nations Development Programme/Global Environment Facility (UNDP/GEF) in three sites in Malaysia. Started in June 2002, this Project aims to promote conservation and sustainable use of PSF and associated wetland ecosystems in Malaysia. The paper discusses on how the Project attempts to manage the PSF in three sites in Malaysia with more emphasis given to the Project site at Loagan Bunut National Park, Sarawak. | |
| dc.identifier.url | https://catalogo.fedepalma.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=20599 | |
| dc.language | ng | |
| dc.publisher | Kuala Lumpur : MPOB, | |
| dc.subject | Sostenibilidad. | |
| dc.subject | Palma de aceite | |
| dc.title | Towards sustainable management of peat swamp forest: A case study of Loagan Bunut National Park, Sarawak, Malaysia. | |
| dc.type | text |