People Resources and Conservation Foundation (PRCF)

The PRCF is especially interested in encouraging local communities to take charge of the management of natural resources available to them, with a view to managing them for sustainable harvest. In West Kalimantan, we work in an area where recurrent fires have led to the proliferation of invading grasses, particularly Imperata cylindrica, or “alang-alang.”  In this region, because of the poor state of natural resources, local communities have been generally faced with little option but to accept the creation of private industrial forest plantations with palm oil or fast-growing tree monocultures.