Conservation of Biological Diversity through Improved Forest Planning Tools
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Conservation of Biological Diversity through Improved Forest Planning Tools |
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Creating better economic and ecological tools for improved forest management
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Background
Tropical forests are the most complex and diverse ecosystems on earth. In addition to having extremely rich and diverse plant and animal life, these forests also provide significant socio-economic development as well as providing critical ecosystem services such as the maintenance of soil and water resources, stabilizing climate and the conservation of biological diversity.
However, current forest management practices in many tropical countries tend to maximize timber production goals and are deficient in certain critical aspects that threaten sustainability and conservation of biological diversity. The procedures for identifying forest areas that should be protected within the permanent forest areas and within individual forest concessions do not give sufficient consideration for biodiversity conservation.
Development Objectives
The objective of this project is to develop tools and generate knowledge needed to ensure that forestry production systems are planned and managed in a manner which will contribute to biodiversity conservation.
Activities
- Computerised system and database for recording and managing biodiversity
- Efficient statistical methods for estimating biodiversity from small samples
- Improved methods for assessing biodiversity
- Improved understanding of the overall impacts of logging on biodiversity
- Models that relate economic values associated with biodiversity to ecological and socioeconomic factors that influence them
- Improved models for predicting biodiversity taking into account logging systems and locations
- Employ harvesting protocols and technology that would conserve or protect biodiversity
- Improved forest planning model for allocation of lands between protection and production taking into consideration biodiversity and economic benefits and costs
- Increased skills and capacity of local counterparts in all aspects of the research
- Dissemination of the tools and methods to other countries
| Expected Outputs
- Forest planners in Perak incorporate tools to measure impacts on biodiversity in their forest management planning
- Forest planners in Perak utilise tools for full valuation of goods and services in their forest management planning and operations
- Forest planners in Perak integrate ecological and economic tools in forest planning decisions at a landscape level; and
- Capacity exists to apply methods developed by the project in tropical forest management operations.
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Partners
National Executing Agency: Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment
Implementing Partners: Forest Research Institute of Malaysia
UNDP Program Officer/Contact Person
Mr. Hari
Ramalu Ragavan
Programme Manager (Energy and Environemnt)
Email:
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Website
http://www.cbiod.org |
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