Beiersdorf : Support for sustainable palm oil production in Sabah

Based on the three pillars 'Protect, Produce, Restore', the project's objective is to make palm oil production more sustainable and to stop deforestation. The target in Tabin landscape is to reach 20,000 hectares of middle- and small-growers to be certified by the Roundtable of Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) by 2025. It is also planned to create a land-use plan to underpin sustainable agriculture and forestry and to work with the project partners to protect the natural habitat of endangered wild animals in Tabin Wildlife Reserve. And finally, to establish at least one ecological corridor through restoration of forest habitats, which allow wild animals to move freely between previously separated forests. The project partners also want to stabilize the population of endangered species such as the orangutans, and to minimize the human elephant conflicts in the project area over the next five years.

The Tabin landscape covers a total of around 400,000 hectares of land - roughly four and a half times the size of Berlin. Approximately half of this is covered by palm oil plantations. The Tabin Wildlife Reserve is the natural habitat that safeguards many threatened and endangered species, including around 1,250 orangutans, 350 Borneo elephants, 50 Banteng and 40 Sunda clouded leopards.