Abstract

Assesing the status of corridor in Endau Rompin Landscape, Malaysia
Track: Conservation
Authors: Chee Pheng Low

Loss of connectivity through bottlenecks in the Endau-Rompin Landscape is a significant threat and will potentially increase rates of human wildlife conflict at villages located in the corridor. In year 2009, the critical corridor region has been approved for land conversion for rubber plantations. In this project, we hope to showcase the importance of the corridor using the biological monitoring and human-wildlife conflict data that have been collected since year 2009. In the future, we hope to be able to establish a map of potential wildlife use in the corridor region, determine important core regions that shall not be converted to plantations, and suggest other locations for such land conversion. The information will also be used to help convince the State Government and Federal Government that land-conversion to large-scale mono-cultures will be detrimental to wildlife using these areas and will reduce connectivity for the Central Forest Spine of Malaysia.