Support for Peatland Rehabilitation and Conservation in Southeast Pahang Peatland Landscape
This project aims to support enhancement of the activities in the Bukit Leelau Mini Landscape including maintenance and expansion of the rehabilitation measures. In addition, this project also initiates the support toward the local communities to improve their welfare through improvision of water sources facilities.
Aim/Objectives:
To provide a necessary support from previous Bukit Leelau Mini Landscape Project to ensure sustainability in term of ecosystem recovery and local community livelihood enhancement.
Key Activities:
- Community patrolling.
- Maintenance of planting plot.
- Maintenance of hydrology enhancement structure.
- Upgrading welfare facilities by providing solar system and water pump at Kampung Orang Asli Melogo, Pekan Pahang.
- Established sustainable livelihood options for local community linked to NTFP.
Key Outcomes:
The project helped support the maintenance of canal blocks and replanted area within the Bukit Leelau Mini Landscape (BLML), support community-based patrolling programme, develop sustainable livelihood options (e.g. bee-keeping and mushroom farming) and support on installation of solar powered system that provides electricity and clean water sources. The community patrolling and fire prevention measures continued between 2020 to 2024 through support from other parties.
One of the key milestones achieved is the absence of peat fires at the project sites since the joint-multistakeholder intervention.
Fire Prevention, Forest Rehabilitation and Community Welfare in Western Portion of the Southeast Pahang Peatland Landscape (SEPPL)
The SEPPL is the largest peatland area in Peninsular Malaysia covering 230,000 hectares (ha) of which about 110,000ha is still covered with peat swamp forests of global significance for biodiversity and climate mitigation. This landscape is still home to at least 19 villages of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLCs) of Jakun tribe.
This project builds on its first phase (2019–2020), aiming to further support and expand the activities initiated earlier, including community-based fire patrolling, livelihood and welfare programmes for IPLCs in the area.
In parallel, the project adopts a Nature-based Solutions (NbS) approach to maintain the existing rewetted areas and to expand the forest rehabilitation programme in the western portion of SEPPL.
Aim/Objectives:
- To support maintenance of the existing rewetted area and expansion of the forest rehabilitation programme in the western portion of the SEPPL;
- To support continuation and expansion of the community-based patrolling programme in the western portion of the SEPPL; and
- To support livelihood and welfare activities of the indigenous people and local communities in the western portion of the SEPPL.
Key Activities:
- Support the maintenance of existing rewetted areas.
- Expand rehabilitation efforts on degraded land or within community land (with fruit trees species).
- Conduct rapid assessment at targeted areas.
- Continuous support towards the existing community-based patrolling team from three villages.
- Establish new community-based patrolling team from two additional villages.
- Organise several Communication, Education and Public Awareness (CEPA) Programmes.
- Develop and implement livelihood programmes with the local communities.
- Improve the welfare of communities in marginalised areas with limited access to basic necessities by installing solar lighting systems and water filters.
- Biodiversity monitoring in the oil palm plantation, buffer zone and community areas within the project site.
