Protecting Biodiversity by Supporting People

Creation and Management of the Tesso Nilo Protected Area as a Centerpiece of Sumatra’s Tesso Nilo Bukit/Tigapuluh Conservation Corridor

Grantee Name: World Wide Fund for Nature

Hotspot: Sundaland
Location: Indonesia
Amount: $994,897
Dates: Dec 2003 – Jun 2007
Keywords: Community-based conservation, Policy/law, Protected Areas

Encourage federal and provincial governments to designate Tesso Nilo, a last stronghold of Sumatra’s fast-disappearing lowland forest, as a protected area and help to put in place a protected area management system endorsed and run by local stakeholders.

Strategic Direction :

3 Build alliances among conservation-minded groups in civil society and the private sector

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Creation and Management of the Tesso Nilo Protected Area as a Centerpiece of Sumatra’s Tesso Nilo Bukit/Tigapuluh Conservation Corridor

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