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Management of viable orangutan populations in oil palm landscapes
Proportion of the area of the contribution comprising Key Biodiversity Areas: 47.3%
For the past decade, we’ve worked on managing orangutans in oil palm landscapes through two flagship projects: the Lower Kinabatangan (Sabah) and the Essential Ecosystem Area (Ketapang, Kalimantan). Both are now moving toward long-term financing to sustain the most detailed studies and adaptive management of orangutans in fragmented forests. Insights from these efforts—combining cutting-edge tools like thermal drones and AI with citizen science monitoring—are shaping our recommendations to the IFC on Performance Standard 6. This approach has proven powerful for understanding and supporting orangutan survival in oil palm-dominated landscapes.
Potential conservation benefits in saving biodiversity
Potential reduction of species extinction risk resulting from threat abatement actions
The chart below represents the relative disaggregation of the selected contribution's total potential opportunity for reducing global species extinction risk through taking actions to abate different threats to species within its boundaries. The percentages refer to the amount of the total opportunity that could potentially be achieved through abating that particular threat.