{"id":11462,"date":"2015-09-08T10:15:24","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T10:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/april.hellopomelo.space\/2015\/09\/08\/talking-peatland-restoration-at-forests-2015\/"},"modified":"2025-02-20T07:47:28","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T07:47:28","slug":"talking-peatland-restoration-at-forests-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/april.hellopomelo.space\/id\/articles\/talking-peatland-restoration-at-forests-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"TALKING PEATLAND RESTORATION AT #FORESTS2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are now at the World Forestry Congress (WFC) in Durban, South Africa to share the story of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rekoforest.org\/index.php\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">RESTORASI EKOSISTEM RIAU (RER).<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1770\" style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/april.hellopomelo.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/aprilsept8.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1770\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1770\" src=\"https:\/\/april.hellopomelo.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/aprilsept8.jpg?w=605\" alt=\"APRIL at World Forestry Congress (WFC), Durban\" width=\"605\" height=\"454\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1770\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">APRIL at World Forestry Congress (WFC), Durban<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>RER is a project established by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aprilasia.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">APRIL Group<\/a> in 2013 to protect and restore important peatland areas on the Kampar Peninsula in Riau, Indonesia.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a multi-year collaborative project with partners <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fauna-flora.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Fauna &#038; Flora International (FFI)<\/a>, local social NGO Bidara as well as community groups to protect and restore 70,000 hectares of degraded forest under eco-restoration licenses granted by the Indonesian Government.<\/p>\n<p>In sharing our story, we\u2019re focusing on three key aspects: why we invest in landscape restoration, the role of plantation forests in sustainable development and why collaboration with the community is so important to the success of projects like this.<\/p>\n<p>RER incorporates the lessons we\u2019ve learned over the past decade about what works and doesn\u2019t work in conserving natural forest in Indonesia.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s important because the Kampar Peninsula is a special place and is one of the largest peatland areas in Southeast Asia. Kampar\u2019s tropical forests are rich in biodiversity and support endangered wildlife species, including the Sumatran tiger, flat-headed cat and sun bear.<\/p>\n<p>RER is part of a long-term investment by APRIL in sustainable forestry and landscape level conservation with a model of protection, assessment, restoration and management.<\/p>\n<p>The community is a key element, recognizing that our plantations can only operate sustainably as part of an integrated approach that takes into account the whole landscape from people to wildlife to ecology.<\/p>\n<p>We are making progress but also continue to learn as we go. A landscape\u2019s needs don\u2019t always follow lines on a map and finding a point of equilibrium is an ongoing challenge, reinforcing the need for community engagement.<\/p>\n<p>To work, it must be a long-term collaborative process, bringing together diverse stakeholders aiming to achieve a balance between multiple and sometimes conflicting objectives.<\/p>\n<p>We look forward to sharing our progress over the next two days and listening to the thoughts and ideas of the global sustainable forestry community.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are now at the World Forestry Congress (WFC) in Durban, South Africa to share the story of RESTORASI EKOSISTEM RIAU (RER).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11465,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[38,42],"tags":[579,82,581,369,583,85,585,209,487,381],"class_list":{"0":"post-11462","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-april-dialog","8":"category-perspectives","9":"tag-forests2015","10":"tag-april","11":"tag-degraded-forest","12":"tag-ffi","13":"tag-goh-lin-piao","14":"tag-indonesia-forest","15":"tag-kampar-riau","16":"tag-peatland","17":"tag-petrus-gunarso","18":"tag-restoration"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/april.hellopomelo.space\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/april.hellopomelo.space\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/april.hellopomelo.space\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/april.hellopomelo.space\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/april.hellopomelo.space\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/april.hellopomelo.space\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11464,"href":"https:\/\/april.hellopomelo.space\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11462\/revisions\/11464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/april.hellopomelo.space\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/april.hellopomelo.space\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/april.hellopomelo.space\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/april.hellopomelo.space\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}