Forest resource management and biodiversity conservation: the Indonesian agroforest model

Rural life in Indonesia is still greatly dependent on forests, Although resource use by local populations often tends to be exploitative. While predication of in situ resources does exist, there are also interesting examples of conservative resource management outside natural forests by local populations' throughout the archipelago. As native populations' traditional access to natural forests becomes more and more limited, forest resources are often managed through an agro-forestry reconstruction of the ecosystem: the agro-forest. In the present context of degradation of natural ecosystems and of generalized dilapidation of their resources, indigenous agro-forests reaffirm traditional responsibility over natural resources by native farmers and societies.Besides management of useful species, these agreforest also allow conservation of a good part of animal and plant diversity levels between natural forests, several agroforests and mono-specific plantations show the high potential of this original type of resource management system in conservation forest biodiversity in agricultural lands.

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