Zoning for people within Indonesia's Kerinci Seblat National Park. (Special Issue: People in parks - beyond the debate: achieving conservation in human-inhabited protected areas.)

摘要

The Kerinci Seblat National Park's zoning plan provides for the establishment of use zones designed to stop further forest conversion while recognizing the land-use rights of people who have long resided within the park. Trial implementation focused on three villages, two of which qualified for use zone establishment. Park guards and local residents mapped with GPS units, and marked in the field, the boundary of special use zones within which villagers could continue to cultivate the land. Use zone agreements were drafted clarifying rights and responsibilities of local people, local governments, and park authorities; however, neither agreement was finalized. The successes and failures of the trial implementation are discussed.