The Rimba Raya Biodiversity Reserve REDD Project

Delineation of the Project Zone. To ensure the inclusion of allcommunities that potentially derive some form of livelihood fromthe area, the Project Zone will comprise the 47,000 ha ProjectArea plus an additional 44,215 ha of surrounding lands includingall 12 communities on the Seruyan River within the potentialsphere of influence of the project. Land inside Tanjung PutingNational Park, to the west of the Project Area, has been excludedfrom the Project Zone. Recent community surveys indicate thatthe national park was previously used for logging but is no longerused for this purpose as a result of recent improvements in lawenforcement. Additionally, land use for purposes other thanlogging would likely be met in forests located closer to thecommunities, inside the Project Area but outside the nationalpark.Figure 9. Project Area, Project Zone, Tanjung Puting NationalPark, and villages (desa) surveyed during the December 2008Daemeter social survey (labeled in red).The Project Zone extends west to the border of Tanjung PutingNational Park, south to the Java Sea, east to the Seruyan Riverand north to the land surrounding KUCC oil palm plantation. Thisbroad delineation extends management and co-­‐benefits of theReserve as far as the major geographic and administrativeboundaries that have historically constrained land use activitiesin the Rimba Raya region. To the north, the Project Zone extendsmore than 25 kilometers beyond the Project Area to forests andcommunities surrounding KUCC plantation in order to extendclimate, community and biodiversity benefits to a threatenedpark border, at-­‐risk lowland and peat swamp forest, and sixcommunties that lie far beyond Project Area boundaries. Thisinclusive delineation of the Project Zone promotescomprehensive community planning in the Seruyan and preventsthe formation of marginalized frontiers between importantgeographic boundaries.22