Final Report (Phase : March 2008-February 2009) A Global Partnership for Community-Based Environmental Conservation in Salak Mountain : From Community Engagement to the Deepening Benefits of Forest Conservation Conducted By Funded By Peka Indonesia - Wildlife Trust Chevron Corporate Printed on recycle paper Content Summary............................................................................................................................................1 Chapter I : Introduction.....................................................................................................................2 1.1 Rationale ................................................................................................................................2 1.2 Historical Background............................................................................................................3 1.3 Goal and Objectives ...............................................................................................................4 Chapter II : Project Design and Strategy...........................................................................................5 2.1 Project Preparation................................................................................................................5 2.2 Program Design and Schedule...............................................................................................5 Chapter III : Inititave for Collaboration Management.....................................................................10 Chapter IV : Biodiversity Resaerch ...................................................................................................12 4.1. Monitoring Lucanide Beetle Population................................................................................13 4.1.1 Population status ...................................................................................................................13 4.1.1.1 Study Area and Sites ..............................................................................................................13 4.1.1.2 Insect Sampling......................................................................................................................15 4.1.1.3 Result .....................................................................................................................................15 4.1.2 Bettle Trading.........................................................................................................................18 4.2 Moth Community Structure...................................................................................................19 4.2.1 Study Area and Sites ..............................................................................................................19 4.2.2 Insect Sampling......................................................................................................................19 4.2.3 Result .....................................................................................................................................20 4.3 Frog community around Chevron compound .......................................................................23 4.3.1 Study Site ...............................................................................................................................23 4.3.2 Survey Methods.....................................................................................................................24 4.3.3 Results....................................................................................................................................25 4.3.3.1 Permanent Stream.................................................................................................................27 4.3.3.2 Terrestrial Habitat..................................................................................................................28 4.3.3.3 Permanent Ponds...................................................................................................................30 4.3.4 Discussions.............................................................................................................................31 Chapter V : Environmental Education ..............................................................................................34 5.1 School link ..............................................................................................................................34 5.2 Strenghthening Teacher Network..........................................................................................34 5.3 Increasing Teacher Capacity ..................................................................................................35 5.4 Increasing awaraness of young generation through student competition...........................35 i Chapter VI. Community Empowerment...........................................................................................36 6.1 Strenghtening Local involvement in Protecting and Conserving Biodiversity of Salak Mountain..............................................................................................36 6.2 Establishing Eco-agriculture Practices (Organic Farming System)...............................................36 6.3 Local economic development................................................................................................38 6.3.1 Analysis of potential non-timber forest product for economic development .........................................................................................................................38 6.3.2 Setting the community business cluster (agriculture, fresh water fisheries, small home business )....................................................38 6.3.3 Market development for organic farming product and banana/casava crisp...............................................................................................................39 6.3.3.1 Marketing for Banana and Crips ...........................................................................................39 6.3.3.2 Marketing for Organic Farming Product................................................................................39 Chapter VII. Financial Expenditure ...................................................................................................41 Chapter VIII : Evaluation and Lesson Learned ..................................................................................43 8.1.1. Project preparation and design .............................................................................................43 8.2. Biodiversity research..............................................................................................................43 8.3. Environmental Education.......................................................................................................43 8.4. Community empowerment ...................................................................................................44 8.5. Institutional Collaboration.....................................................................................................44 ii Summary During the project implementation, we have conducted follow-up plan for each programs: corridor ecology research, community empowerment and conservation education. Our achievements: (i) Strengthening collaborative management: Protection and conservation of corridor ecosystem initiative has always been a collaborative management approach involving multi stakeholders. We have been actively involved in strengthening collaborative management through discussion series and field actions. (ii) Biodiversity research: status of frog community as well as it’s habitat, the dynamic interaction between insect and frog, and continuing with the population monitoring of Lucanid beetle to get more accurate information on the status of the beetle. We also advanced our investigation on moth diversity. Since information on moth species in Java is very limited, our research on this taxa group has valuable contribution on moth database in Indonesia. (iii) Environmental education: strengthening the development of the model of rural school based – environmental education and it’s link to the local environmental problem in Salak Mountain, valuing the importance of the remaining natural resources of forest corridors. Teacher network initiative is the most effective approach to increase local awareness and participation together to face conservation challenges of the remaining forest corridor. (iv) Community empowerment, conservation of the remaining corridor ecosystem is still the main agenda and can only be achieved by involving local community. We have established close collaboration with Jarmaskor (Salak Corridor Community Network) to develop eco-agriculture practices, enhancing the collective action of the community to tackle local livelihood problem, to improve the projection analysis on socio-economic development of local community. Since local involvement in protecting local biodiversity and improvement of community livelihood can‘t be separated, therefore a request to improve income generating should be further followed by establishing market place for local product. Through this project, we are trying to build up a market for local organic farming product. 1 Chapter I. Introduction 1.1. Rationale Nature conservation and meeting the need and aspiration of a growing population are two important societal goals. If the steps needed to achieve these two goals always coincided, then there would be