Bamboo Restoration and Habitat Enrichment in Tahura SSH
Ecosystem Restoration and Wildlife Coexistence
Bamboo Restoration and Habitat Enrichment in Tahura SSH
Planting and maintaining bamboo, enriching a forest-fruit collection block, and building local enterprise capacity as part of a wider approach to habitat support and human–elephant coexistence.
Project overview
Hutanriau planted 1,000 bamboo stems across 10 hectares and supported maintenance, replanting, habitat enrichment, early survival monitoring, and training for local micro and small enterprises.
Verified outputs
At a glance
Why this work mattered
Habitat support needs planting, maintenance, and evidence over time
Tahura Sultan Syarif Hasyim is an important conservation area within a landscape where people and elephants share space. The project was designed to strengthen vegetation and future elephant forage as one contribution to wider human–elephant conflict mitigation efforts.
The work combined new bamboo planting with care for earlier planting areas, replanting, forest-fruit enrichment, and early survival monitoring. It also connected ecological activities with skills development for micro and small enterprises.
Delivery
Objectives and implementation
Objectives
- Increase the availability of bamboo intended to support future elephant forage.
- Maintain and replant earlier bamboo restoration areas.
- Enrich habitat with local forest-fruit species.
- Build a stronger evidence base through initial survival monitoring.
- Strengthen digital communication skills among local enterprises.
What we did
- Planted 1,000 bamboo stems across 10 hectares, with 100 reserve stems.
- Applied fertiliser and completed two maintenance rounds.
- Maintained 12.4 hectares planted in 2023 and supplied 186 stems for replanting.
- Added 150 forest-fruit plants to a one-hectare collection block.
- Trained 14 micro and small enterprise participants in social media.
Results and learning
Early survival data provide a baseline, not a final impact claim
The initial census recorded 76 per cent bamboo survival. This provides a useful starting point for maintenance decisions and future monitoring, but it does not yet demonstrate long-term habitat change.
The project also showed the value of combining planting with maintenance, replacement stock, vegetation enrichment, and local capacity support. Continued monitoring is needed to understand survival, growth, use by wildlife, and any contribution to conflict mitigation.
Project album
Early bamboo growth
Field documentation records the planted bamboo and provides a visual reference for future monitoring.
Work with us
Planning restoration that connects habitat, monitoring, and communities?
Hutanriau supports practical restoration, maintenance, field monitoring, community engagement, and learning for landscapes shared by people and wildlife.