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The aim of this project was to evaluate the effectiveness of protected areas against deforestation and forest fragmentation in Indonesia. We divieded protected areas into two groups, highly and lowly ranked. Therefore we measured how well highly protected areas work against deforestation and fragmentation.
We used forest cover data from GLAD and obtained our protected area shapefules from Protected Planet. Then we processed the forest cover data to determine change in forest cover, mean patch area and aggregation over time.
We analyzed each protected area using an index we developed ourselves. This index is called the DFI. The DFI was made up of the change in rates between the 3 metrics that we selected.
Highly protected areas were found to be overall more effective against deforestation and forest fragmentation in Indonesia.
Highly protected areas were also found to have slower deforestation rates since 1973 compared to lowly protected areas.
Highly protected areas displayed slower patch shrinkage over time. This indicates that they were more effective at preventing forest fragmentation.
Highly protected areas showed slower disaggregation. This indicates that landscapes in highly protected areas did not become as patchy over time compared to lowly protected areas.
