WWF ( World Wide Fund for Nature) is the world's largest and most experienced independent conservation organization. It has 4.7 million supporters and a global network active in 96 countries.

WWF's mission is to stop the degradation of the planet's natural environment and to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature by conserving the world's biological diversity ensuring that the use of renewable natural resources is sustainable promoting the reduction of pollution and wasteful consumption.

WWF Indonesia - Project Bukit Tigapuluh is a Non-Profit Organization was formed in 1995 with NORAD assistance to design a five-year project to support the establishment and management of a protected area in Bukit Tigapuluh.

In May 1997, an internal evaluation of the project recommended that, in view of rapid escalation in the number and severity of threats to Bukit Tigapuluh National Park, the project should reorient itself to focus on the use of advocacy to counter these threats.

More recently WWF Riau program has focused on the development of conservation in a wider area of Riau, known as the Tesso Nilo Conservation Landscape.

This landscape focus of WWF includes Bukit Tigapuluh National Park, Bukit Batabuh Protection Forest, Rimbang Baling Game Reserve, Tesso Nilo forest complex, and the Kerumutan Game Reserve. These five protected areas covermore than 6000 km2, containing one the largest remaining blocks of lowland rain forest in Sumatra. This area holds the highest vascular plant diversity of any tropical lowland forest known to science. The protected areas cover peat swamp, lowland rain forest and montane forest ecosystems of Sumatra. Forested corridors connecting the protected area are under severe pressure of illegal logging and conversion to palm oil and Acacia plantations.

This Riau program, which includes Bukit Tigapuluh, is to be implemented in collaboration with many other NGO partners, and encompasses 7 modules :

• Forest Crime
• Tiger Protection
• Park Management
• Human-Elephant Conflict
• Corporate Relations
• Community Relations
• Project Management

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Updated by Staf TNBT pada Selasa 20 Oct 2009 pukul 00:00:00

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