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POLICY STATEMENTS
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- DFR will be managed to provide a sustained yield of high quality timber and other
wood products to optimize economic returns to the State on a long-term basis by
maximizing utilization and efficient use of raw materials. In addition, every effort would
be undertaken by the SFD to demonstrate and promote forest rehabilitation and
silvicultural practices that jointly sustain ecological and economic forest values.
- The SFD will ensure that the conservation of a diversity of wildlife particularly for
orang-utans (Pongo pygmaeus), Pygmy elephants (Elephas maximus), and
Tembadaus (Bos javanicus) and the provision of suitable habitats for them and others
in DFR will be undertaken and managed.
- DFR serves as an example in promoting the conservation and restoration of native
flora and therefore, the SFD will continue to manage DFR in order to provide habitats
that support a diversity of native plant communities and species.
- Water resources management involves all water resources, values, uses, functions,
and delineations. The SFD will manage water resources in DFR within the context of
adaptive management, considering the wide range of potential impacts, issues and
opportunities relating to water resources.
- The SFD will ensure that conserving populations of rare, unique and endangered
species, as well as, other ecologically significant populations and examples of all
native plant communities in DFR will be aggressively undertaken. In addition, the SFD
will protect selected areas of special scientific, scenic or ecological significance in
DFR. Forest fragmentation, connectivity and patch distribution will be considered in
management decisions affecting resources in DFR.
- The SFD and other research institutions will continue to be involved in research
programs directed toward improving ecosystem management and SFM in DFR.
- In addition to what is prescribed in current legislations, regulations and conditions
concerning the environment, all possible environmental improvement initiatives will be
taken which are ecologically motivated, technically feasible and commercially viable.
The SFD will continue to demonstrate to all relevant stakeholders, national, and
international clients, on its efforts towards quality environmental management in DFR.
The SFD’s internal and external auditors shall monitor this.
- The SFD will expand current efforts on issues related to appropriate mechanisms for
capturing known values related to different goods and services supplied by the forests
in DFR, including environmental services such as, carbon sequestration, biological
diversity, watershed protection and ecotourism potentials.
- The SFD will continue to provide job opportunities and socio-economic development
activities, particularly to the local communities living adjacent to DFR, so as to improve
their living standard.
- Bribery, Sexual Harrasment & Gender Equality
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