The Manokwari Declaration: Challenges ahead in conserving 70% of Tanah Papua’s forests

Cámara‐Leret, Rodrigo; Schuiteman, André; Utteridge, Timothy M. A.; Bramley, Gemma L. C.; Deverell, Richard; Fisher, Laurel A.; McLeod, Jonathan D.; Lee, Hannah; Roehrdanz, Patrick R.; Laman, Timothy G.; Scholes, Edwin; Fretes, Yance de; Heatubun, Charlie D.

doi:10.24259/fs.v3i1.6067

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“…On the other hand, it sets a baseline for realizing the potential of New Guinea's natural resources before massive habitat degradation occurs (Novotny 2010;Sloan et al 2019). This is important given recent political commitments, where the Governors of Indonesia's two New Guinea Provinces declared in 2018 to, among other things, conserve 70% of the forest cover for the western half of the island, strengthen the role of indigenous peoples, support indigenous communities to develop appropriate economic development activities, and increase access to markets (Cámara-Leret et al 2019).…”

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Indigenous Knowledge of New Guinea’s Useful Plants: A Review1

Cámara‐Leret

Dennehy

2019

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We present the first large-scale synthesis of indigenous knowledge (IK) on New Guinea's useful plants based on a quantitative review of 488 references and 854 herbarium specimens. Specifically, we assessed (i) spatiotemporal trends in the documentation of IK, (ii) which are New Guinea's most useful ecosystems and plant taxa, (iii) what use categories have been better studied, and (iv) which are the best studied indigenous groups. Overall, our review integrates 40,376 use reports and 19,948 plant uses for 3434 plant species. We find that despite a significant increase in ethnobotanical studies since the first reports of 1885, all islands still remain under-investigated. Lowland and montane rainforests are the best studied habitats; legumes, palms, and figs are the most cited plant families; and Ficus, Pandanus, and Syzygium are the most useful genera. Medicinal uses have received the greatest attention and non-native species have the highest cross-cultural consensus for medicine, underscoring the culturally enriching role of non-native taxa to New Guinea's pharmacopeia. Of New Guinea's approximately 1100 indigenous groups, 217 are mentioned in the literature, and non-endangered groups remain better studied. We conclude that IK can contribute significantly to meet rising demands to make New Guinea's landscapes "multifunctional" and boost the green economy, but ambitious strategies will still be needed to mainstream IK and improve its documentation.

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Indigenous Knowledge of New Guinea’s Useful Plants: A Review1

Cámara‐Leret

Dennehy

2019

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“…Contributions by Galudra, 2019;Wulandari and Kurniasih, 2019;and by Tajuddin et al, 2019, offer important perspectives on these institutional issues. Third, recent years has also seen the emergence of specific policies related to adat in Tanah Papua, specifically around the question of who gets to decide how policy will unfold in Papuan forests (Cámara-Leret et al, 2019;Fatem, 2019). Finally, Bong (2019) also addresses the overall implications of formalization.…”

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“…The contributions concerning the two provinces of Tanah Papua, by Fatem (2019) and Cámara-Leret et al (2019) point to some significant and timely issues related to forest conservation. Both articles discuss the broader changes affecting the region, particularly those related to the policy dimensions of ensuring conservation in one of the world's most significant area of biodiversity.…”

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The politics, economies, and ecologies of Indonesia’s third generation of social forestry: An introduction to the special section

Fisher

Dhiaulhaq

Sahide

2019

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Although Indonesia is experiencing one of the most complex transformations of social forestry policy in the world, there is a need to step back and more closely examine the politics, ecologies, and economies that provide context for its implementation. This introduction offers a synthesis of the collection of special section submissions in Forest and Society. We begin by navigating the current social forestry moment by presenting a heuristic for identifying the discourses underpinning the rapid expansion in support of social forestry schemes. These perspectives are fragmented across four continuously contested discourses: community-first, legal-first, conservation-first, and development-first. We then contextualize the historical developments that brought social forestry into its current form by laying out a genealogy of its antecedents across three distinct generations. These three generations of social forestry are roughly aligned with the overall political changes that have taken place in Indonesia, each of which engaged in their own mechanisms for defining and administering social forestry. The first generation roughly follows the period of New Order rule; a second generation began as the regime unraveled, resulting in a period of reform and restructuring of the political system. At this time, new legal frameworks were introduced, followed by the development of new implementation mechanisms. We argue that social forestry has entered a third distinct period that is characterized by the expanding interests of numerous stakeholders to formalize permitting schemes. This third generation presents new possibilities for redefining land management on Indonesia’s vast national forests. The contributions to this special issue shed new light on the overall implications of these changes. We divide the findings across submissions, covering broad topical engagement on the economies, ecologies, and politics at different governing scales. From these findings we suggest a course for future research, and identify key policy challenges for the future of social forestry and for Indonesia.

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“…To our knowledge, no expert bird checklists exist for the major satellite islands of Tanah Papua, including Waigeo, Misool, Batanta, Japen, or Biak. This has resulted in considerable data gaps for Tanah Papua in terms of species distributions, habitat associations, breeding behavior, and species ecology in general (Beehler & Pratt, 2016;Noske et al, 2016). Particularly in the face of Tanah Papua's accelerating land-use change (Austin et al, 2017) and ambitious political pledge to increase conservation efforts in Tanah Papua (Cámara-Leret et al, 2019a), a stronger scientific focus on species distributions becomes increasingly important.…”

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An annotated bird checklist for Gam island, Raja Ampat, including field notes on species monitoring and conservation

Schrader

Parsch

Moeljono

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Species checklists are a fundamental component of biodiversity research. They foster understanding of species distributions and habitat preferences, thus reducing gaps of knowledge in geographical occurrences of species. Especially in light of the limited availability of data on species distributions for Tanah Papua, an increasing scientific focus on the region is crucial to foster and refine the knowledge of species occurrences and to inform potential conservation planning. Despite a strong focus on conservation of Raja Ampat´s marine areas, surprisingly few studies have focused on the terrestrial biodiversity of the archipelago. As a consequence, detailed species checklists are largely missing. Here, we provide a preliminary bird species checklist for the island of Gam and its surrounding islands, located in the central Raja Ampat archipelago. During nine sampling periods between 2013 and 2019, we recorded 132 bird species in six distinct habitat types. Of the detected species, six are considered threatened by IUCN Red List criteria. We further recorded three new species for Gam Island, thereby expanding their known extent of occurrence.

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The Manokwari Declaration: Challenges ahead in conserving 70% of Tanah Papua’s forests

Cited by 28 publications

References 5 publications

Indigenous Knowledge of New Guinea’s Useful Plants: A Review1

Indigenous Knowledge of New Guinea’s Useful Plants: A Review1

The politics, economies, and ecologies of Indonesia’s third generation of social forestry: An introduction to the special section

An annotated bird checklist for Gam island, Raja Ampat, including field notes on species monitoring and conservation

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