Report: As human-wildlife conflict increases, some plantations see value in setting aside land for conservation
KOTA KINABALU, June 29 — After decades of going through human-wildlife conflict, plantations in Sabah are seeing benefits from designating land for conservation purposes.
The idea is to create a wildlife corridor for the animals to keep them away from the crops, while also protecting the plantation by providing a buffer against the risk of floods. The sanctuary also helped recoup costs from the mangrove rehabilitation. Wildlife and plantation conflicts are inevitable as some 10,000 of the estimated 75,000 orangutans in Borneo, are now found on palm oil estates, while at least 200 elephants died in the last decade, many killed on or near palm oil plantations.
According to its senior manager for environment and conservation Ram Nathan, SSB’s efforts has reaped benefits as crop damage from human-elephant conflict fell from some RM500,000 a year between 2004 and 2011, to RM5,000 in 2018. Similarly, orangutan conservationist NGO HUTAN is working with Melangking Oil Palm Plantation , which covers 8,000 hectares in the Kinabatangan area, in setting aside 500 hectares for conservation.
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