WEST KALIMANTAN
Mendawak Landscape
Mendawak is an ecologically significant, yet largely unprotected landscape in West Kalimantan, characterized by critical orangutan habitat, deep peatland areas, tropical forest, and the province’s largest mangrove forest expanse. Dominated by concessions, interspersed with community-managed forests, its incredible biodiversity.
The Mendawak landscape in West Kalimantan overlaps four districts: Kubu Raya, Kayong Utara, Ketapang, and Sanggau. It is situated just north of the Palung landscape, home to the 108,000 ha Gunung Palung National Park. Gunung Palung is one of the most significant orangutan strongholds in West Kalimantan... ​
Multi-stakeholder engagement
Sangga Bumi began working in the Mendawak landscape in 2020, advocating for the adoption of sustainable development practices on the landscape’s oil palm and pulp and paper concessions. Recognising that Mendawak’s forests were threatened, we began facilitating multi-stakeholder discussions with the landscape’s key public and private land-use actors...
Sangga Bumi supports innovative multi-stakeholder management
Sangga Bumi’s vision is for the Mendawak landscape to be actively managed under one comprehensive conservation plan, which brings together multiple public and private stakeholders, amplifies community voices in concession-dominated conservation planning, and advances innovative sustainable forest management and connectivity solutions across the landscape. We are achieving this vision through the Sangga Innovation Hub, through which we implement our Sangga STEM approach:
Sangga Innovation
Sangga Canopy
Sangga Farming