Opportunities for forestry investment in Asia and the Pacific through carbon offset initiatives. (1997): 3 OPPORTUNITIES AND CONSTRAINTS IN THE FORESTRY SECTOR: 3.3 Forestry Examples in the Asia/Pacific: 3.3.2 Malaysia: Tropical Forest Rehabilitation

Opportunities for forestry investment in Asia and the Pacific through carbon offset initiatives. (1997)

3 OPPORTUNITIES AND CONSTRAINTS IN THE FORESTRY SECTOR

3.3 Forestry Examples in the Asia/Pacific

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		3.3.1 Indonesia: Reduced Impact Logging
		3.3.2 Malaysia: Tropical Forest Rehabilitation
		3.3.3 Malaysia: Reduced Impact Logging
		3.3.4 Fiji: Community Forestry Pine Plantations
		3.3.5 Solomon Islands: Natural Forest Management
		3.3.6 Papua New Guinea: Integrated Conservation and Development
		3.3.7 Vanuatu

3.3.2 Malaysia: Tropical Forest Rehabilitation

The Forests Absorbing CO2 Emissions (FACE) Foundation focuses on reforestation in the tropics, Eastern Europe and Holland with 85% of the capital committed to tropical projects. In Sabah, Malaysia FACE is currently funding a tropical forest rehabilitation project (Innoprise-FACE Foundation Rainforest Rehabilitation Project). It involves enrichment planting with indigenous dipterocarp species on 5,000 hectares of logged over land thereby helping to restore the original structure of the forest. It may be extended to cover 25,000 hectares. The rights to the downstream timber belong to Innoprise Corporation, the concessionaire, and the carbon benefits belong to FACE. When Innoprise harvests the trees it is also obliged to use RIL techniques to maintain the integrity of the carbon pool.