Actions in this pledge

• Conserving trees and forest landscapes

  Supporting actions

  Permanent conservation

  Secure a forest through acquisition or legal agreement to avoid planned or unplanned deforestation or degradation, and/or ensure permanent conservation of land

  Conservation support activities

  Support the operating costs and activities of existing conservation areas, including advocacy for conservation policy

  Additional details

  APRIL employs a four-phase model of forest protection, restoration and conservation using a landscape approach.

  1) Protecting the landscape – APRIL adopts appropriate protection strategies that include the establishment of a formal guard and patrol function and bespoke community resource management and protection schemes. APRIL works with local community groups to ensure that solutions are practical and effective.

  2) Assessing the Ecosystem and the Social Environment - APRIL investigates and assesses the present conditions of the flora, fauna and wildlife habitats, assisted by expert partners. Initial assessments of the area, physical and social environments are also completed to establish a baseline against which future assessments can be benchmarked, and to ensure that communities are part of this process.

  3) Restoring Native Plant and Wildlife Species - Once protected and assessed, APRIL carefully restores degraded sites through a process of restocking, using seedlings from surrounding forests. We establish nurseries to cultivate seedlings collected from the wild before carrying out a program of staged replanting. Water level restoration where required will be designed to maintain water levels critical to the health and functioning of the peat forest ecosystems, with continual evaluation of the effectiveness of our efforts.

  4) Managing for Sustainability - APRIL develops comprehensive, long-term management plans with our advisory panel of international and local specialists to ensure the sustainability of the restored forest areas. These incorporate consultation with local communities, government and adjacent forest concession license-holders, and are distributed widely for feedback.

  Production-Protection Model - A critical element of the APRIL initiative is the adoption and maintenance of an integrated production-protection model, where plantation operations on the perimeter of the restoration area not only provide protection, but actively fund ecosystem restoration and forest protection. Years of experience have shown that this is a reliable and effective economic model for restoration in Indonesia, given the resources that are required for ongoing active management.

  

  Conserving

  Land area

  > 85'000 hectares

• Restoring and growing trees and forest landscapes

  Supporting actions

  Assisted natural regeneration

  Actions that support natural regeneration without tree planting, such as Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration, forest soil remediation, exotic species control, disease prevention, and wildfire protection

  Reforestation

  Re-establishment of forest through planting and/or deliberate seeding on land classified as forest, that has been degraded or where trees are unlikely to regenerate naturally

  Agroforestry

  Activities that establish and manage the integration of trees into agricultural landscapes, silvopastoral systems, farming in forests and along forest margins and tree-crop production

  Other restoration and tree growing activities

  Active protection, fire prevention through community engagement, wildlife protection from poaching and illegal trade

  Additional details

  Achievement of the target involves securing additional restoration licenses and/or partnerships with communities and conservation organizations. APRIL is currently developing a landscape management process and framework which includes a commitment to work with community partners in meeting conservation and restoration opportunities. Further information will be provided in the future.

  

  Restoring & Growing

  Land area

  >10'000 hectares

• Enabling activities for trees and forest landscapes

  Supporting actions

  Nursery and seedling development

  Establish tree nurseries, including actions such as identification and collection of seeds and/or growing seedlings

  Sustainable forest management

  Activities that support the stewardship and use of forests (including by local communities and indigenous peoples), to maintain their biological diversity, productivity, and regeneration capacity, as well as their potential to fulfil relevant ecological economic and social functions

  Market development for sustainable forest products

  Activities that create markets and demand for ecologically and socially responsible timber and non-timber forest and agroforestry products, e.g. capacity-building for the harvesting and processing of agroforestry products, forest certification standards, etc.

  Education and capacity building

  Forest / tree species conservation and restoration education programmes, targeted educational and behaviour change campaigns, training and capacity building, including promotion of local and traditional knowledge and practices

  Community mobilisation

  Community mobilisation and engagement activities for conservation, restoration and reforestation, including enabling systems of community governance, etc.

  Youth engagement

  Engagement of young people and/or youth networks to catalyse a restoration generation

  Data collection, management and technological tools

  Activities that provide data and/or technological tools to support conservation and restoration (e.g. monitoring etc.)

  Other enabling activities

  Fire Free Alliance

  Additional details

  We are making sure that a significant portion of our landscape is conserved, protected and biodiverse to deliver Thriving Landscapes. A set percentage of revenue from our plantation forests will go towards forest restoration and conservation. This includes expanding conservation and restoration areas outside our own operating footprint and ensuring zero net loss of protected forest area to achieve measurable gains in ecosystem values. Tropical peatland science will be advanced through a new research hub and Eco-Camp within our RER restoration area.

  For more details about our commitments for APRIL 2030, please visit https://april2030.aprilasia.com/april2030-indicators/

  

  Enabling