{"id":17288,"date":"2025-10-20T08:26:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T08:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/april.hellopomelo.space\/?p=17288"},"modified":"2026-05-18T08:28:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T08:28:02","slug":"april-signs-5-year-science-partnership-with-iucn-at-world-conservation-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/april.hellopomelo.space\/id\/articles\/april-signs-5-year-science-partnership-with-iucn-at-world-conservation-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"APRIL Signs 5-year Science Partnership with IUCN at World Conservation Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row type=&#8221;in_container&#8221; full_screen_row_position=&#8221;middle&#8221; column_margin=&#8221;default&#8221; column_direction=&#8221;default&#8221; column_direction_tablet=&#8221;default&#8221; column_direction_phone=&#8221;default&#8221; scene_position=&#8221;center&#8221; text_color=&#8221;dark&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; row_border_radius=&#8221;none&#8221; row_border_radius_applies=&#8221;bg&#8221; 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column_position=&#8221;default&#8221; gradient_direction=&#8221;left_to_right&#8221; overlay_strength=&#8221;0.3&#8243; width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243; tablet_width_inherit=&#8221;default&#8221; animation_type=&#8221;default&#8221; bg_image_animation=&#8221;none&#8221; border_type=&#8221;simple&#8221; column_border_width=&#8221;none&#8221; column_border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221; text_direction=&#8221;default&#8221;]\n<ul>\n<li><em>The strategic collaboration with IUCN will advance conservation science and benefit the company\u2019s conservation programmes.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Businesses are \u201c<\/em><em>expected to move beyond pledges and deliver,\u201d said Anderson Tanoto, RGE Managing Director.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Company business and sustainability leaders presented APRIL\u2019s on-the-ground conservation experience at the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Abu Dhabi.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a class=\"post__metaLink\" title=\"Digital Team\" rel=\"author\">APRIL Group has signed a\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/iucn.org\/press-release\/202510\/iucn-and-april-launch-five-year-collaboration-advance-conservation-science#:~:text=The%20collaboration%20brings%20together%20IUCN&#039;s,national%20and%20international%20biodiversity%20goals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">five-year strategic collaboration<\/a>\u00a0with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) aimed at strengthening conservation science and applying evidence-based solutions.<\/p>\n<p>Announced at the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Abu Dhabi, the collaboration will combine APRIL\u2019s operational reach in Indonesia and IUCN\u2019s global scientific expertise, and will help the company to expand its use of conservation tools in the natural landscapes it manages \u2013\u00a0around 465,000 hectares in total.<\/p>\n<p>The collaboration is also intended to advance robust conservation science and build capacity that supports national and international biodiversity goals.<\/p>\n<p>Anderson Tanoto, Managing Director at RGE and member of the Executive Committee at APRIL, said the company\u2019s approach to conservation was focused on practical action, rather than aspirational targets. \u201cBusinesses today are expected to move beyond pledges and deliver results that are credible, practical and measurable on the ground,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy combining global science with local action, this partnership enhances our conservation and restoration programmes and engages a wider network of experts and stakeholders to achieve meaningful biodiversity outcomes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Leading from the landscape<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The IUCN World Conservation Congress also saw a number of APRIL and RGE senior business and sustainability leaders sharing presentations about APRIL\u2019s approach and lessons from implementation on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>APRIL Group Chairman, Bey Soo Khiang, addressed a session on how to scale successful conservation initiatives. This is a pressing problem because although around two thirds of conservation initiatives globally are effective at halting or even reversing biodiversity loss, animals and plant populations are still declining globally. Nearly three quarters of wildlife populations have been lost since the 1970s.[\/vc_column_text][image_with_animation image_url=&#8221;17290&#8243; image_size=&#8221;full&#8221; max_width=&#8221;100%&#8221; max_width_mobile=&#8221;default&#8221; animation_type=&#8221;entrance&#8221; animation=&#8221;None&#8221; animation_movement_type=&#8221;transform_y&#8221; hover_animation=&#8221;none&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; border_radius=&#8221;none&#8221; box_shadow=&#8221;none&#8221; image_loading=&#8221;default&#8221; display_caption=&#8221;1&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221; text_direction=&#8221;default&#8221;]Bey explained how APRIL\u2019s Production-Protection approach, where the company\u2019s conservation areas benefit from the physical protection provided by being surrounded by a ring of plantation, \u00a0means encroachment by people who might conduct illegal logging or wildlife poaching is much harder.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that the company\u2019s protection is also financial. For every tonne of plantation wood delivered to the company\u2019s mill site, APRIL sets aside one dollar for its conservation fund, with US$14.8 million allocated in 2024. This finances its own conservation work, but has also been used to support other conservation projects in financial distress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have built resilience in terms of protecting our own conservation area as well as trying to apply this concept of Production-Protection to scale up conservation beyond our concessions,\u201d said Bey.<\/p>\n<p>Lucita Jasmin, RGE\u2019s Group Director of Sustainability, emphasised that effective sustainability and nature conservation strategies must be anchored in purpose, endorsed by the Board and management, and embedded in operations, rather than treated as parallel initiatives. Close collaboration between sustainability and operational teams is critical to translate these strategies into measurable outcomes on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDelivery gives you integrity and transparency gives you trust. We believe that progress in sustainability is not built on dramatic gestures, but on consistent work on the ground that makes a real difference,\u201d Jasmin conveyed in a session on \u2018The Business Case for Nature.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>A commitment to doing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Congress attendees got a description of what the APRIL\u2019s conservation commitment looks like on the ground. \u201cWe\u2019re involved in conservation, because we can be. We have the financial resources to do it,\u201d APRIL\u2019s Director of Sustainability, Craig Tribolet told a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/iucncongress2025.org\/programme\/unusual-coalitions-indigenous-peoples-communities-and-private-sector-unite-biodiversity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">session on conservation partnerships<\/a>\u00a0between local communities and the private sector.<\/p>\n<p>But he added that the company also has the advantage that it can invest and learn as it progresses, in a way that the public sector can\u2019t always do.[\/vc_column_text][image_with_animation image_url=&#8221;17291&#8243; image_size=&#8221;full&#8221; max_width=&#8221;100%&#8221; max_width_mobile=&#8221;default&#8221; animation_type=&#8221;entrance&#8221; animation=&#8221;None&#8221; animation_movement_type=&#8221;transform_y&#8221; hover_animation=&#8221;none&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; border_radius=&#8221;none&#8221; box_shadow=&#8221;none&#8221; image_loading=&#8221;default&#8221; display_caption=&#8221;1&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221; text_direction=&#8221;default&#8221;]\u201cBecause APRIL funds its own investment, it has greater latitude than projects reliant on public funds to adopt a trial an error approach where appropriate to investigate what works,\u201d said Tribolet.<\/p>\n<p>An example of that is APRIL\u2019s Community Conservation scheme where the company is working with local communities to incentivize them to preserve areas of natural forest that they control. The intention is to more than triple the size of the scheme to 100,000 hectares by the end of the decade.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will pay for the environmental service of conservation,\u201d said Tribolet, \u201cbut we have to be prepared to learn from each other and be prepared to engage with people whose perspectives are going to be very different from ours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>John Pereira, Deputy Head of Operations at Restorasi Ekosistem Riau (RER), APRIL\u2019s flagship forest conservation project, shared updates on progress achieved over the last decade. The RER project is an area of highly biodiverse peat swamp forest around the size of Greater London that is home to Sumatran tigers and Sunda pangolins among 80 species listed by the IUCN Red List.<\/p>\n<p>In the past year, it has played host to biologists studying the behaviour and ecology of Malayan Sun Bears as well as a separate study on the conservation status of medium to large terrestrial mammals. 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