Land on Pt4951-Pt4955 and Pt4987-Pt4991 in Mukim
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PROPOSED OIL PALM PLANTATION DEVELOPMENT ON 8,094.43 HECTARES (20,001 ACRES) LAND ON PT4951-PT4955 AND PT4987-PT4991 IN MUKIM TEMBELING, DISTRICT OF JERANTUT, PAHANG DARUL MAKMUR. Table of Content 1.0 Introduction........................................................................................................................................... 1 1.1 Project Background ........................................................................................................................ 2 2.0 Basis of Assessment ............................................................................................................................. 2 3.0 Methodology ........................................................................................................................................ 3 3.1 General Ecology Assessment ....................................................................................................... 5 3.1.1 Pre-Assessment of the Project Area ................................................................................... 5 3.1.2 Habitat Assessment and Classification .............................................................................. 5 3.2 Fauna Diversity Assessment .......................................................................................................... 6 3.2.1 Direct Observation ................................................................................................................. 7 3.2.2 Elephant Dung Pile Count ..................................................................................................... 9 3.2.3 Camera Trapping ................................................................................................................. 10 3.2.4 Animal Identification ........................................................................................................... 15 4.0 Study Findings ..................................................................................................................................... 15 4.1 Fauna Diversity Assessment ........................................................................................................ 15 4.2 Mammals ........................................................................................................................................ 17 4.3 Avifauna ......................................................................................................................................... 19 4.4 Herpetofauna ................................................................................................................................. 22 5.0 Potential Impacts on Wildlife ........................................................................................................... 24 5.1 Habitat Loss .................................................................................................................................... 24 5.2 Disruption of Ecological Corridors .............................................................................................. 25 5.3 Increased Risk of Poaching ......................................................................................................... 26 5.4 Increased Human-Wildlife Conflict ............................................................................................ 28 5.4.1 Elephant Disturbance on Oil Palm Trees .......................................................................... 29 5.4.2 Elephant Disturbance on Human Safety .......................................................................... 29 6.0 Wildlife Management Action Plan .................................................................................................. 30 6.1 Mitigation Measures Prior to Project Implementation ............................................................ 30 6.2 Cooperation with Department of Wildlife and National Parks .............................................. 32 6.3 Allocation of Riparian Buffer Zone and Other Preserved Areas ............................................ 32 6.4 Management of Wildlife Conflict ................................................................................................ 34 6.4.1 Best Management Practice for Wildlife Management .................................................. 34 6.4.2 Elephant Conflict .................................................................................................................. 35 6.4.3 Other Wildlife Conflicts ........................................................................................................ 36 6.4.4 Frequent Plantation’s Floor Clearing ................................................................................. 36 6.4.5 Dialogs ................................................................................................................................... 37 6.4.6 Own Prevention Action ....................................................................................................... 37 6.4.7 Contingency Plan ................................................................................................................ 37 6.5 Program Monitoring and Wildlife Rescue .................................................................................. 38 6.6 Management Access to Plantation Area ................................................................................. 39 7.0 Project Impact Management to Residential Kg. Orang Asli ...................................................... 39 8.0 Conclusion .......................................................................................................................................... 39 WIRANDA (M) SDN BHD 0 PROPOSED OIL PALM PLANTATION DEVELOPMENT ON 8,094.43 HECTARES (20,001 ACRES) LAND ON PT4951-PT4955 AND PT4987-PT4991 IN MUKIM TEMBELING, DISTRICT OF JERANTUT, PAHANG DARUL MAKMUR. 1.0 Introduction Human-Elephant conflicts exist since 1950’s when Malaysia adopting Rancangan Malaya to boost the country economic by aiming in the agricultural sector. From there, Malaysia land use has started to change from a forested area to agricultural sites by giving way to commercial commodities such as oil palm, rubber and etc. Numerous of lowland forests have been converted to plantation and residential area. Lacking of foraging habitat and shelter for the elephant and other wildlife triggered them to move out of the jungle where they used to be comfortable with. A raise of the conflict cases between human-elephant put Department of Wildlife and National Parks in the more active role in managing all the conflict issues. Department of Wildlife and National Parks is the only federal authority in the position to manage all the wildlife related issues. Nevertheless, Non-government organization stakeholders (WWF- Malaysia, WCS, MYCAT and etc.) also play an active role in compliment the Department’s role in resolving the raising conflict issues. The drafting of the Wildlife Management Plan (WMP) for the development of oil palm plantation in Jerantut, Pahang is basically to compliment to the Department of Wildlife and National Parks role in managing human-wildlife conflict issues. The elephant has been highlighted in the plan as this species is the flagship species and high conservation value wildlife species. Human-wildlife conflict management is the gist of the management plan as other species is foreseeable to escape to other forest patches during the systematic earthwork phase as discussed under the Environment Impact Assessment. The plantation management as stakeholder is willing to pay active role in reducing the potential negative impacts incurred following the conversing of land use status of the proposed development area. The objective of the plan is to draft a guideline for the oil palm plantation development management in confronting all potential human-wildlife conflict. WIRANDA (M) SDN BHD 1 PROPOSED OIL PALM PLANTATION DEVELOPMENT ON 8,094.43 HECTARES (20,001 ACRES) LAND ON PT4951-PT4955 AND PT4987-PT4991 IN MUKIM TEMBELING, DISTRICT OF JERANTUT, PAHANG DARUL MAKMUR. 1.1 Project Background The wildlife inventory study had been conducted with the permission from PERHILITAN through a letter with a reference number: JPHL&TN (IP): 100-34/1.24 Jld 14 (59) dated on 25th July 2019. The Project Area is located in PT4951-PT4955 and PT4987-PT4991, Mukim Tembeling, District of Jerantut, Pahang Darul Makmur. The Project Area covers the total area of 8,094.43ha (20,001 acres) and mostly categorized as logged-over forest at different logging cycles. The Project Area is located within three permanent forest reserves; Yong, Yong (Tambahan B) and Yong (Lipis) Forest Reserves. Almost 67% (13,406 acres) of the total Project Area is located within Central Forest Spine (CFS) under CFS1-SL2: Krau Wildlife Reserve – Bencah Forest Reserve – Som Forest Reserve – Yong Forest Reserve. 2.0 Basis of Assessment This section describes the existing biological components in the study area for mammals, herpetofauna and avifauna. The description below is based on available published and unpublished data, interviews with local residents and relevant authorities, as well as data collected from the field surveys. The wildlife composites in the proposed project area were surveyed to assess the potential impacts of project implementation on the biological system. Field samplings were augmented by cross references with other surveys carried-out in the nearby vicinity. The proposed project involved converting of the logged-over forest to oil palm plantation which required