Conservation and Sustainable Use of Tropical Peat Swamp Forests and Associated Wetland Ecosystems

The project’s goal is to ensure the conservation and sustainable use of globally significant biodiversity within Malaysia’s PSF areas through the pursuit of three objectives, namely demonstration of inter-sectoral planning, application of these plans, and institutional strengthening. The global biodiversity values found in Malaysia’s tropical PSF ecosystems are exemplified by the three sites selected for the present project, each of which represents a distinct PSF ecosystem complex in Malaysia. The three project sites collectively support at least 60 globally significant species of plants and animals. At each project site, a strategy will be adopted to sustainably remove threats on the basis of a two-tiered approach involving activities in the core “focal areas”, supplemented by activities in the surrounding “buffer areas”. This will contribute to implementation of both the Biodiversity Action Plan and the National Wetlands Plan by providing demonstrations of conservation and sustainable management of peat swamp forests.