Rattan, honey and river fish
Families stay on the Meratus ridge when there is income that does not rely on the mine. The programme is attaching buyers to rattan, honey and river fisheries.
The case for keeping the Meratus forest standing has to compete with a haul road that pays cash today. For a family, income that does not rely on the mine is what makes the difference.
The programme supports rattan, honey and river fisheries, and attaches buyers to each, so production has somewhere to go. Progress is reported per household, not as a landscape average, because an average hides the families it has not reached.
The haul road pays quickly. The forest pays slowly.
A harder standard
Reporting household by household means a family that has not yet seen a benefit shows up as exactly that. The programme has chosen that standard on purpose.
Critical and Severely Critical Land within Forest Areas
