Site |
Focus of environmental service |
Conditionality applied (see Fig. 1) |
Type of scheme and current status |
|
Indonesia |
Bungo |
"Jungle rubber" agroforestry system for conservation of the
diversity of local plant species and wildlife habitat |
Level IV Management plan for rubber agroforestry in general, including
specified agricultural techniques No slash-and-burn practices Minimizing
illegal logging at the buffer zone of the adjacent national park and
traditional community forests "lubuk larangan" No intensive or
commercial harvesting of nontimber forest products or hunting |
"Hutan desa" ("village forest") recognition by central government for local
forest management role within watershed protection forest Testing mini-hydropower as
intermediate reward for biodiversity conservation A private buyer (automotive wheel
industry) showing interest in rubber for "green" vehicles |
Cidanau |
Water quality and regular flow for private water companies |
Level II Planting and maintaining timber and fruit trees with the total
minimum of 500 trees ha−1 for 5 years |
A private water company is paying
US$120/ha for the contract |
Singkarak (Watershed) |
Water quality for hydropower, native fish conservation, and
ecotourism |
Level IV Planting a 40-ha grassland with timber and fruit
trees |
Conservation fund from local government to revitalize organic coffee in the upstream watershed |
Singkarak (Voluntary Carbon Market) |
Carbon sequestration for voluntary markets under land rehabilitation
setting |
Level I Planting and maintaining a specified number of trees to achieve
an agreed amount of carbon sequestration |
Carbon market negotiated with
private buyer (consumer goods distributor) |
Sumberjaya (Community Forestry) |
Watershed rehabilitation for the District Forestry Service |
Level II Planting and maintaining a specified number of trees with a
particular composition of species |
Conditional tenure rewarded to
farmer groups |
Sumberjaya (River Care) |
Water quality for hydropower |
Level I Conducting collective action in riparian rehabilitation and
sedimentation reduction to achieve a specified percentage (> 30%) of erosion
reduction |
Hydroelectric power company (HEP)
royalty agreements signed for River Care groups along the river |
The Philippines |
Bakun |
Water quality for hydropower |
Level III Setting up management plan to rehabilitate watershed,
including sustainable horticulpractices |
HEP royalty agreements signed |
Kalahan |
Carbon sequestration under voluntary market |
Level I Planting and maintaining a specified number of trees to achieve
agreed amount of carbon sequestration |
Carbon market initial agreement with private buyer (automotive industry) |
Nepal |
Kulekhani |
Water quality for hydropower |
Level III Setting up management plan to rehabilitate watershed,
including sustainable horticulture practices |
HEP royalty agreements signed |