Within the period of October 2009 - April 2010, Balai BKSDA Sumatera Utara through the Pride project, had achieved several succesess:

1) Meranti Timur Village as one of the main target village had agree to be developed as Conservation Village Model

2) 1 community group is volunteering to establishing tree nursery, in addition with 4 schools, as nursery satelitte.  Trees from this nursery will be used for the reserves rehabilitation

3) produced one series of landsat imageries to potrayed updated data on forest covered and size of palm-oil encroachment

The next steps taken would be:

1) ground truthing the spatial data

2) eradicate the illegal palm-oil trees within the reserves area