Life After Logging: Reconciling Wildlife Conservation and Production Forestry in Indonesian Borneo

by E. Meijaard, Scott Stanley, Anna Wong

Focusing on the wildlife of the Malinau District, the most forest rich area remaining on the island of Borneo, this book considers how vertebrate species are affected by logging and other associated activities, such as road building and hunting. As an area still rich in biodiversity but increasingly under threat from timber harvesting, Malinau is a prime site for studying both the effects of logging on wildlife populations, and the conservation opportunities that exist through improved forest management. Drawing on a vast and diverse literature and a broad array of expertise, this book provides the best available synthesis to date on logging and wildlife in the region. Compiling these data allows a number of new and original analyses. The book evaluates what makes a species vulnerable to certain interventions, and proposes how changes in concession management can benefit wildlife and improve the conservation value of logged over forest. It also gives detailed management recommendations for a list of species with high local importance, protected by Indonesian law, or threatened by global extinction. In presenting a new guide to improved production forest management in the Asian tropics, this book represents a major step forward. In addition, it identifies whre the most important knowledge gaps exist, and how these should be addressed in future research.

345 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2005