Projects in the S-E Asia Bioregion

Over the last ten years, rhino and elephant habitat in Southeast Asia has been rapidly logged or converted to oil palm and pulp wood plantations.

Fires used to clear land have raged out of control consuming additional forests. The smoke from the fires of the late 1990s could be seen from space and made international headlines.

WWF has worked to establish Sumatra's Bukit Tigapuluh National Park in Riau province and destroyed access to logging roads within the park to prevent illegal logging.

WWF is also working in the policy arena to develop best management practices for palm oil plantations and working with the international banking sector to discourage the financing of environmentally destructive practices.

As in other Asian regions, human-elephant conflict is a problem, and AREAS searches for ways to reduce it.

• Northern Borneo, Malaysia & Indonesia
• Peninsular Malaysia & southern Thailand
• Riau, Sumatra, Indonesia
• Bukit Barisan Selatan, Sumatra, Indonesia
• Ujung Kulon, Java, Indonesia
  

Priority Landscapes in the Indochina Bioregion	Global 200 Ecoregions	Estimated rhino population			Estimated elephant population*
		Greater one-horned	Javan	Sumatran
Northern Borneo ("Heart of Borneo"): Kinabatangan to Sebuku- Sembakung Landscape (Malaysia, Indonesia)	Borneo Lowland and Montane Forests, Sundaland Rivers and Swamps			~30-70	<2,000
Peninsular Malaysia & Southern Thailand	Peninsular Malaysian Lowland and Montane Forests			~50	~600
Riau, Sumatra (Indonesia)	Sumatran Islands Lowland and Montane Forests, Sundaland Rivers and Swamps				~700
Bukit Barisan Selatan, Sumatra (Indonesia)	Sumatran Islands Lowland and Montane Forests, Sundaland Rivers and Swamps			20-40	present in small numbers
Ujung Kulon, Java, (Indonesia)	Banda-Flores Sea		50-60

* Elephant population data are for the most part speculative at best. Several elephant populations have likely continued to decline, making it even more likely that numbers presented here have significant margins of error.