Central Kalimantan High Conservation Value Provincial Assessment

The assessment finds that 60% of Central Kalimantan's land area contains High Conservation Value (HCV) areas, with 62% of these areas threatened by development. The report identifies critical hotspots in five districts and highlights logging and spatial planning as primary drivers of forest loss, which declined by 32% between 1973 and 2012.

• High Conservation Value (HCV) areas are widespread in Central Kalimantan, covering approximately 60% of the province's land area, totaling 9,405,716 hectares.
• A significant majority of identified HCV areas are at risk, with nearly 62% (5.8 million hectares) threatened by one or more factors.
• Logging is the most extensive threat to the identified HCV areas, potentially affecting nearly 35% of them.
• Spatial planning poses a high risk of forest conversion, potentially affecting nearly 18% of all mapped HCV areas and more than 25% of HCV 3 (rare or endangered ecosystems) areas.
• Forest cover in Central Kalimantan decreased by 3.98 million hectares (32%) between 1973 and 2012, averaging a loss of approximately 100,000 hectares per year.
• Five districts—Katingan, Murung Raya, Gunung Mas, Kapuas, and Seruyan—are identified as critical priorities, collectively containing 62% of the province's total HCV areas.
• Murung Raya is the district with the largest cumulative HCV area, totaling nearly 2.1 million hectares.
• The assessment identified five specific HCV types: Protected Areas (HCV 1.1), Large natural landscapes (HCV 2.1), Transition ecosystems (HCV 2.2), Rare or endangered ecosystems (HCV 3), and areas prone to erosion and sedimentation (HCV 4.2).
• Future projections indicate a further loss of approximately 1.1 million hectares of forest due to planned conversions under current spatial planning.

APA

Ibie, B. F., Rumbang, N. Y. N., & Ibie, E. (2016). Central Kalimantan High Conservation Value Provincial Assessment. Climate Policy Initiative. https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/PILAR-Central-Kalimantan-High-Conservation-Value-Provincial-Assessment-low-res.pdf

Chicago

Ibie, Bismart Ferry, Nina Yulianti Nyahu Rumbang, and Evaphilo Ibie. Central Kalimantan High Conservation Value Provincial Assessment. Climate Policy Initiative, 2016. https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/PILAR-Central-Kalimantan-High-Conservation-Value-Provincial-Assessment-low-res.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{ibie2016central, author = {Ibie, Bismart Ferry and Rumbang, Nina Yulianti Nyahu and Ibie, Evaphilo}, title = {{Central Kalimantan High Conservation Value Provincial Assessment}}, institution = {Climate Policy Initiative}, year = {2016}, month = oct, url = {https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/PILAR-Central-Kalimantan-High-Conservation-Value-Provincial-Assessment-low-res.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }