Johannes Refisch, of the United Nations Environment Programme’s Great Apes Survival Partnership, asks how we can provide economic incentives to conserve orangutan habitat - and reaches some interesting conclusions. The carbon value, plus the value of other ecosystem services, can make forest conservation more competitive than all alternative land uses. He gave this presentation at the ‘Linking Great Ape Conservation with Poverty Alleviation’ workshop hosted by CIFOR in January 2012.
10. Net present values for different land uses are from Tata and van Noordwijk (2010), carbon prices from Butler et al. (2009)
11. In Tripa, if forest patches are conserved inside oil palm plantations, a minimum price of 5.2 USD/tCO2 would be needed to offset profit made from business as usual scenario where forest patches are converted.
15. Conclusions and recommendations Focus further resource development including planned expansion of oil palm plantations on low current use value lands taking into account all social and environmental implications
Forest patches as step stones and corridors Carbon prices range from USD 9.43 / t CO2 to 17 USD / tCO2 More CO2 stored in Tripa per ha than in Batang Toru
Hope that our work can help to reconcile development and conservation, development is necessary and can be done in a smart way