Major News
Kuala Lumpur, 28th August 2007
The Royal Society SEARRP signs a 7-year, £1 million sponsorship agreement with Malaysia’s Petra Foundation
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SEARRP is also funded and supported by:
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 Infapro Forest Rehabilitation Project
The Innoprise-FACE Foundation Rainforest Rehabilitation Project (INFAPRO) was established in 1992 as a joint venture between Innoprise Corporation and FACE Foundation (Forests Absorbing CO2 Emissions) of the Netherlands. The aim of INFAPRO is to promote the regeneration of 30,000 ha of highly degraded logged forest, largely by enrichment planting, and thereby to increase its capacity for CO2 sequestration. To date, the project has rehabilitated over 10,000 ha of forest. The INFAPRO area was selectively harvested from the mid 1970s to the early 1990s using a combination of tractor yarding in areas of moderate terrain and cable or 'high-lead' yarding on steeper slopes. In lightly to moderately disturbed areas, where dipterocarp seedlings either survived the logging operation or recruited subsequently, rehabilitation may simply involve cutting back the competing vegetation (release cutting) that would otherwise hamper the growth of regenerating seedlings. In more degraded areas, especially where high lead machines were deployed, it is almost always necessary to enrichment plant. The enrichment planting operation is supported by a large nursery (located close to DVFC) that has the capacity to produce over 1 million dipterocarp seedlings following mast fruiting events. The INFAPRO nursery aims to maintain stocks of 30 or more dipterocarp and other indigenous tree species. The INFAPRO project provides a valuable experimental resource for scientists working at Danum Valley - the area is highly accessible by road, data on the logging history of the INFAPRO area is near complete and the area is fully mapped. |
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