Borneo WoodFiber Concession 2016 WRI

A pulpwood concession is a right granted by governments to plantation companies for the establishment and management of industrial, monoculture timber estates (mainly Acacia, or Eucalyptus in Borneo) for the production of pulp and paper. For Kalimantan, concessions were digitized and adapted by Greenpeace from: MoFor (2014) IUPHHK-HTI, Ministerial Decree SK 5984/Menhut-VI/BRPUK/2014, Ministry of Forestry, Indonesia, November 2014, http://www.dephut.go.id/index.php/news/details/9671. Pulpwood plantations are regulated and issued by one ministry: the Ministry of Environment and Forestry. For Sarawak, concessions were obtained from the Bruno Manser Fund report (1) in pdf format, scanned and digitized in ArcGIS. Faeh D (2011) Development of Global Timber Tycoons In Sarawak, East Malaysia. History and Company Profile. Basel, Switzerland: Bruno Manser Fund. For Sabah, concession data could not be obtained.