Rimba Raya Biodiversity Reserve

[3] The reserve is located on the island of Borneo in the Province of Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, where ever-expanding palm oil plantations have wreaked havoc on the forest and the communities and wildlife that depend on it.

The project provides a critical buffer to the Tanjung Puting National Park, home to world-renowned Camp Leakey research center and is bounded by the Java Sea to the south, and the Seruyan River to the east.

[4] The Rimba Raya Reserve is home to a wide variety of vegetation The various land classifications include: mangrove and tidal/brackish water swamps near the coast line; marshy, grass-dominated wetlands; riparian and freshwater swamp forest associated with the Seruyan River and its many tributaries; peat swamp forest developing on peatlands of various depths (up to and exceeding 5 meters deep), kerangas (heath) vegetation of various forms (tall to stunted) on sandy soils; and lowland mixed dipterocarp forest on mineral soils.

[5] Biodiversity The Rimba Raya REDD+ project aims to eliminate the destruction of the forests and peatlands of Central Kalimantan which houses more than 75% of Indonesia’s greenhouse gas emissions.

Rimba Rayahas partnered with renowned Primatologist and Conservationist Dr. Biruté Mary Galdikas[6] to provide natural habitats for endangered orangutans in Borneo.

This initiative was introduced in 2016 and provides necessary rural health services which were previously inaccessible and unaffordable to villages in the Rimba Raya concession.