Protect MoreThan You Take

Siberut is already one of the most biodiverse islands on earth. The programme aims to expand protected coverage from 48% to 85% — not by restricting access, but by funding the enforcement, restoration, and community stewardship that turns designations into reality. 152,305 new hectares. The largest rewilding commitment in Indonesian private development history.

Once a logging concession ends on Siberut, the land doesn't recover — it gets converted to sago monocultures, palm oil estates, and other extractive agriculture. The programme will land-bank logged and degraded areas ahead of that conversion, returning them to the national park boundary. Previously stripped land, restored to wilderness. The national park, systematically extended.

The Mentawai people are the reason the island is worth protecting. The programme will be built around genuine communication, deep respect, and a shared understanding of how development benefits their communities — on their terms, in their language, at their pace.

Siberut's forests are still being stripped — legally and illegally. The programme will work to end all logging on the island, buy out existing concessions, and return cleared land to wilderness. In parallel: the eradication of malaria and malnutrition — two preventable crises that have defined life here for generations.

The Siberut Primate Research Centre and the Mentawai Institute of Natural Sciences will establish the island as a global hub for endemic species research. Four primate species found nowhere else on earth. Flora and fauna diversity that remains largely undocumented. The programme will fund the science that makes the conservation case irrefutable.