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- 1. THE BRINCC EXPEDITION: Biodiversity monitoring, social research, and conservation in the rainforests of Central Borneo Peter R. Houlihan Department of Behavioral Biology The Johns Hopkins University Project Leader – Entomology, BRINCC www.brinccexpedition.org www.brinccexpedition.org
- 2. Outline • About BRINCC Expedition • Community Focus • Social Team Research • Biodiversity Team • Future of BRINCC Logo Logo www.brinccexpedition.org 2
- 3. About BRINCC Expedition Who are we? BRINCC is an independent scientific organization working with local communities to protect a remote rainforest ecosystem in Indonesian Borneo Logo
- 4. About BRINCC Expedition Overall Research Aims • Document the flora and fauna of the Murung River? • Identify how distribution and abundance of biodiversity varies across forests of differing levels of disturbance • Determine if gibbon population densities are influenced by vegetation characteristics in the area? • Assess the level of human disturbance in the area, and how resource mapping and other social techniques can be used to identify local needs along the Murung river? Logo
- 8. About BRINCC Expedition Biodiversity Team Social Team Logo
- 9. About BRINCC Expedition Social Team • Participatory Mapping • Resource and land use • Political Ecology • Economics of resource use • Anthropology Biodiversity Team • Gibbons • Amphibians • Butterflies • Small Mammals • Nocturnal Mammals • Birds Logo • Botany
- 10. About BRINCC Expedition People Oriented Research • Participatory and GIS mapping of • Community forest and traditional forest • Sites of cultural and spiritual importance • Ecosystem services • Social science research focussing on • Land use by local people • Livelihoods and forest resources • Economic value of forest resources to communities • The political ecology of land use by local people and companies Biodiversity Surveys in Community Forest Logo
- 11. Why engage with local communities? • Building good relations • Mutual benefit • Local knowledge, history, background and context • It’s their land! • Poor and remote, marginalised communities Without local communities the landscape doesn’t make any sense • Influencing spatial planning process • Community prioritised conservation • High Conservation Value (HCV) assessments Logo
- 12. BRINCC Social Research Socialization Logo
- 13. BRINCC Social Research Participatory mapping Logo
- 14. BRINCC Social Research Resource Use and Land Use • Focus Group Discussions (e.g. timelines and seasonal calendars) •Formal and informal interviews •Questionnaires •Types of forest and use patterns •Species used for food, medicine, trade, construction, fuel etc Logo
- 15. BRINCC Social Research Social Anthropology • Aim: to understand how habitats and species relate to traditional culture. •Participant observation •Informal Interviews. •Researchers were postgraduate students from same ethnic background. Logo
- 16. BRINCC Social Research Political Ecology • To understand the process by which land rights, mining and logging concessions are granted •Understanding the power relations between and within the community regarding decision making •Tracing the investment and supply chains for extractive resources •Mapping the actors and stakeholders involved Logo
- 17. BRINCC Social Research Livelihood Economics • Analyse the transition between subsistence and market based economy •Gain understanding of local perspectives on impacts on livelihoods and forest •Understand concerns and benefits of resource extraction to the local communities Logo
- 18. Training and Capacity Building Local People • GPS training • Biological Research • Local to Latin Names Students • Research Design • Fieldwork Experience • Data Analysis Logo
- 19. Tumbang Tujang Village Forest Logo
- 20. Tumbang Tujang Village Forest Logo
- 22. 0315: Wake up Daily Routine 0330: Go into the field for gibbon triangulation 0400: Arrive at gibbon listening post 0930: Return to camp from gibboning and eat breakfast 1030: Check butterfly traps 1330: Return for lunch or eat in the field, then continue with traps 1630: Return to camp to ID specimens and relax 1900: Dinner 2000: Frogging and/or nocturnal mammal surveys 2300: Sleep. Logo
- 23. BioQuip Products Sponsorship "BioQuip Products is pleased to have our collecting gear and books be part of the BRINCC Expedition. As the premier producer of entomological supplies, BioQuip has been dedicated to advancing the study of insects by providing quality products, books and customer service for 64 years" Logo www.bioquip.com
- 25. Butterfly Research Bootstrapped Species Accumulation Curves 35 30 25 Number of Species 20 15 Tumbang Tujang Borah Forest 10 5 0 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 Sampling Day Logo
- 26. DNA Barcoding with BOLD Logo
- 27. Frogs • 37 species recorded • 1 potentially new species, and 2 extremely rare records • Highest diversity in pristine Borah forest, followed closely by Tumbang Tujang village forest • Lowest diversity and abundance in Kalasin unprotected forest Logo
- 29. Birds Diversity • 223 species • 16 endemics (50 in Borneo) • Bora = 13 • Tumbang Tujang = 6 • Kalasin = 4 Marketable Species Logo
- 30. Large Mammals • 10 mammals recorded on camera traps • Bearded pig • Bornean muntjac • Common porcupine • Greater mouse deer • Mouse deer • Pig-tailed macaque • Red langur • Sambar deer • Short-tailed Mongoose • Squirrel • 6 additional species from signs or sightings • Clouded Leopard • Marbled cat • Banded palm civet • Sun bear • Leopard cat • Otter • Small- toothed palm civet Logo
- 31. Primates • 8 species identified Logo
- 32. Primates • Density estimates for gibbons =1.59-3.04 groups/km2 Logo
- 33. SMALL MAMMALS • 10 species were identified • IUCN Red List Data Deficient Chestnut-Bellied Rat (Maxomys ochraceiventer) Logo
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- 37. Future 2012 • Summer – Expedition members return to villages to present results and discuss future initiatives • Publish results in scientific journals • Networking at conferences 2013 • Expedition tentatively planned back to Murung Raya Next Few Years • Provide thorough standards for Environmental Impact Assessments to be conducted by mining and logging companies in the area, and offer to carry out these studies • Establish GPS and GIS training programs for Indonesians • Design additional education programs for students • Develop a scholarship program for students to join expeditions Logo
- 38. Follow us! Website: www.brinccexpedition.org Blog: brinccexpedition.blogspot.com Facebook: Search Pages Twitter: twitter.com/BRINCCexped Logo
- 39. THANK YOU! To our sponsors and supporters www.brinccexpedition.org
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