聯合國兩年一度的生物多樣性公約大會期間，一項保育婆羅洲核心區生物多樣性的計畫被提出，此案獲得共同擁有這世界第三大島的汶萊、印尼及馬來西亞三國支持。而另外一起保育全球小島的提案《全球小島夥伴協定》亦於29日間提出。
印尼森林部森林保護與自然保育局局長馬洛羅根（Arman Mallolongan）表示：「婆羅洲核心區棲息了世界上6%的生物，同時島上20條主要河川中更有14條發源於此。」總計1994到2004年間，在婆羅洲一共發現約361種新物種。
保護婆羅洲核心區的計畫，是在28日的部長會議上提出的。世界自然基金會（WWF）對此表示贊同。他們認為，這將能終止一項沿著印尼與馬來西亞山區邊界建立世界上最大的棕櫚油農場計畫。這項農場計畫（中國也有投資）原本預期要開發180萬公頃的森林地，同時也會對婆羅洲核心區產生具破壞力的長遠影響。
另外，擁有超過13,000座島嶼的印尼則參加了「全球島嶼夥伴關係」。印尼總統蘇西洛聯合帛琉總統，密克羅尼西亞聯邦總統、格瑞納達與吉里巴斯政府官員在29日展開各項保育活動。
目前在世界上10萬座島嶼上共居住了6億人口，為全球人口的四分之一。而地球上已知植物物種的16%，以及全世界上熱帶海域生物多樣性的50%以上，都集中在這些島嶼上。
A conservation initiative that will protect the biodiverse Heart of Borneo was launched Tuesday at a UN global biodiversity conference, with the three governments that share the world's third largest island – Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia and Malaysia – pledging their support. Another initiative to conserve biodiversity of the world's islands, the Global Island Partnership, was announced Wednesday.
The Heart of Borneo harbors up to six percent of the world's total biodiversity and is the source of 14 of the island's 20 major rivers," said Arman Mallolongan, director general of the Forest Protection and Nature Conservation Division of the Indonesian Ministry of Forestry. Some 361 new species were discovered in Borneo between 1994 and 2004.
The conservation initiatives were announced at the ministerial segment of the biannual Conference of Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity. WWF says the announcement puts an end to plans to create the world's largest palm oil plantation along Indonesia's mountainous border with Malaysia. The scheme – supported with Chinese investments – was expected to cover an area of 1.8 million hectares and would have had long-lasting, damaging consequences on the Heart of Borneo.
Indonesia, a nation of more than 13,000 islands, is also involved in the Global Island Partnership. Indonesian President H. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono joined the President of Palau, the vice president of the Federated States of Micronesia, and officials of Grenada and Kiribati to launch the conservation effort Wednesday.
The 100,000 islands of the world represent more than 600 million people, one quarter of the nations of the world, 16 percent of the planet's known plant species and more than half of the world's tropical marine biodiversity.
