Transcript FLR - Finland

Forest Restoration within a
Landscape/Ecoregion Context
Jeffrey Sayer and Mark Aldrich
WWF Forests for Life Programme
Hämeenlinna, Finland
6th October 2004
Forest Landscape Restoration in Central and Northern Europe
Introduction: Where are we with FLR?
• For WWF, forest landscape restoration means
implementing forest restoration within a landscape
context - i.e. to complement our core targets for protected
areas and improved forest management…
• …versus restoring forest cover across a whole landscape
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...versus large scale reforestation projects
Progress to date
Restoration Initiatives underway in:
• Annamite Range Moist Forests – Vietnam
• Borneo Forests – Kinabatangan, Malaysia
• Forests of the Upper Yangtze – China
• New Caledonia Dry Forests
• Nusa Tenggara Dry Forest – Rinjani, Indonesia
• Eastern Africa Coastal Forest – Kenya and Tanzania
• Madagascar Forests and Shrublands
• Mediterranean Forests/Woodlands - Portugal and
Morocco
• Danube River delta - Bulgaria(/Romania)
• Plus those in LAC….
What entry points or initial interventions
are we using ?
• Policy changes that can promote natural regeneration
or near-natural forest management
• Stakeholder negotiations at a landscape scale to guide
restoration
• Development and dissemination of technical expertise
to facilitate restoration
• Small scale strategic tree-planting or agroforestry to
restore tree cover – e.g. to improve connectivity
between patches of intact forest and/or protected areas
WWF's Forest Restoration target (May 2004) is:
By 2020, restore forest goods, services and
processes in 20 landscapes of outstanding
importance within priority ecoregions to regain
ecological integrity and enhance human
wellbeing.
Forest Restoration Milestones (2005 – 2007)
1. By 2007, 20 detailed landscape restoration programs
with clear biodiversity and socio-economic goals are
integrated within ecoregion action plans.
2. By 2005, develop and pilot a tracking tool that
measures improvements in landscape values through
protection, management and restoration.
3. Multi-year funding secured and demonstrable progress
achieved on Forest Landscape Restoration in at least 5
landscapes by 2007
Tracking Tool: Landscape Values
• You cannot manage what you cannot measure
• Forcing clearer thinking on "landscapes"
• Most M&E systems emphasise project inputs and
outputs or process - not "state“ or “condition” of the
resource
• Simplicity seems to be essential for adoption
Tracking Tool: Landscape Values
For Rinjani in Indonesia we propose annual measures of:
• Total forest extent
• Areas of community forests
• Change in Village Development Index
• Water discharge from catchment
• Amount of environmental service payments
Some issues for Northern and
central Europe
•CAP Reform = Payment for
Environmental Services
•Multi-functional landscapes
Restoring landscapes that are
resilient to fire
•For European Biodiversity too much forest is more
often a problem than too little
•Lynx in Iberia – Orchids in Mediterranean grasslands
•Water birds on Scottish moorlands
How can we help?
• Providing technical advice and support on restoration
techniques, ongoing preparation of a manual on Forest
Restoration – working draft on WWF Connect at:
http://intranet.panda.org/documents/folder.cfm?uFolderI
D=52081
• Targeted advocacy/research activities aimed at
influencing changes in reforestation/restoration policies;
• Developing a monitoring and learning platform, and
support to regular exchange of experiences between
restoration initiatives
• www.panda.org
WWF Forests for Life Programme:
Some lessons learned
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Clear objectives – realistic attainable goals
Field interventions focussed but within landscape vision
If you can’t measure it you cannot manage it – tracking tool
Understand the “system” be part of policy narrative
Realism about participatory processes – tyranny of special
interest groups
• Strategic partnerships needed – we do not have all the skills
• You cannot plan FLR – it’s a constant process of learning and
adaptation – you need short feedback loops
• External drivers important – climate change and WTO
WWF Forests for Life Programme:
Pre-conditions
• Better institutional arrangements at the scale
of the “problem” or the “opportunity”
• New roles for private and public sectors
• Decentralisation and subsidiarity
• Clarity about property rights
• Mechanisms for environmental payments
WWF Forests for Life Programme:
Thank you