Inception phase | PANORAMA

Assisted natural regeneration and soil and water conservation

Assisted natural regeneration stand

Captured by Stevie matcheso

This is the process where degraded forests are left deliberately to regenerate from the stumps, roots or seeds, but man comes in to undertake selected activities to allow the regenerants to grow vigour and health. The activities may include pruning, singling out, thinning, weeding or even fire prevention activities.

The building block has proven to be effective. The fact the the shoots are from well established stump supported by already grown roots, the regenerants grow very fast and become very resistant to harsh environment such as inadequate rains. Another factor is that the species are already in their native land, hence grow fast and successfully. The technology is cheap - Neither tubes nor nursery work and costs are needed.

It is cheap technology. No nursery work or costs are incurred, yet resistant to harsh growing conditions

Youth engagement

Tree Nursery management

Yes

Youth centric approach

Leadership and capacity building of community members and school learners.

Engaging the youths is vital for sustainable development and build back better

Documentation and dissemination of results

Review phase

Entirety

Local

Self-help

Capacity building training

Yes

The project used locally available personnel and resources hence ensuring sustainability.

Strong local leadership from the community and primary school was the most important enabling factor.

Future belongs to the organised.

Documentation and dissemination of results

Review phase

Entirety

Local

Evaluación silvicultural de los bosques secundarios.

MUESTREO SILVICULTURAL

CODEFORSA

La evaluación de campo se realizó por medio de los muestreos: Diagnóstico, Silvicultural y de Remanencia, el análisis de los resultados y elaboración de un documento técnico según decreto ejecutivo 39952-MINAE del 27 de julio 2016.

El muestreo diagnóstico se utiliza para la evaluación de la productividad potencial del bosque. Se evalúan en subparcelas de 10 x 10 m, los Deseables Sobresalientes (DS), basados en la metodología de Hutchinson (1993) y Quirós (1998) citado por Louman et al. (2001).

El muestreo silvicultural está dirigido a árboles y palmas con DAP superior a 10 cm. Este muestreo determina la composición y estructura vertical y horizontal del bosque. Se determina el número de árboles, nombre científico, área basal de las especies para crear cuadros y curvas de distribución por hectárea.

El muestreo de remanencia consiste en obtener la información de los árboles más grandes y viejos del bosque, a estos árboles se les denomina remanentes. El diámetro mínimo de corta establecido para la cosecha forestal, en general, es el diámetro mínimo para clasificar los árboles como remanentes. En bosques secundarios, los árboles remanentes son árboles que ya se encontraban en el sitio antes de su abandono.

- Ya existía la legislación creada en cuanto a la forma de realizar acciones para intervenir los bosques secundarios.

- Esta legislación está basada en investigaciones suficientes y relevantes en el mismo país para ratificar que lo realizado es aplicable y no es necesario "tropicalizar" metodologías o prácticas.

- Existen profesionales con experiencia en aplicar estas metodologías en campo de forma existosa.

- Hacer prácticas de medición antes de realizar el trabajo de campo para homologar criterios y retroalimentar prácticas de medición ya que algunas de los datos a recopilar son cualitativos por lo que el criterio es subjetivo.

- Marcar con pintura o cinta de campo los inicios y finales de las parcelas en cada transepto y tomar punto con GPS.

- Cada cinco parcelas indicar en un árbol cercano el consecutivo de la numeración de la parcela por si se tiene que regresar a verificar o revisar datos sea más fácil ubicarse en el campo.

Inception phase

Implementation

Local

Estándares de Sostenibilidad para manejo de Bosques Secundarios. N° 39952-MINAE.

Código de prácticas de los estándares de sostenibilidad para el manejo de los b…

Localizar los bosques secundarios y sus propietarios en el área de interés.

UBICACION DE UNIDADES DE MANEJO

CODEFORSA

El área de bosque secundario en Costa Rica, está identificada en el mapa desarrollado por SINAC en el año 2014, este mapa identifica los tipos de bosque para todo el país. Las propiedades donde se ubica el bosque, se identificaron por medio de los registros catastrales de las municipalidades de San Carlos y Los Chiles, que son información pública, se determinó quienes eran los propietarios de estas áreas de bosque.

Se visitaron los propietarios que tuvieran 10 hectáreas o más de bosque secundario, se les presentó el proyecto y se les planteó si tenían interés en participar, donde el aporte del propietario era facilitar el acceso al bosque para realizar una evaluación del estado silvicultural del mismo y posterior al análisis de los datos determinar el o los tratamientos silviculturales a desarrollar para consolidar el sitio como bosque, mejorar la estructura vertical y horizontal del mismo y a mediano y largo plazo obtener beneficios económicos del aprovechamiento de sus servicios ecosistémicos. En total se obtuvo anuencia de 14 propietarios de bosque para implementar las actividades del proyecto.

- Se contaba con información digital de las áreas de bosques secundarios a nivel nacional y regional.

- Se contaba con la normativa de ley aprobada para identificar los bosques secundarios a nivel de definición.

- La información pública de los propietarios de las fincas a nivel digital que poseen las municipalidades fue vital para localizar a los dueños de los bosques.

- La Región Norte del país tiene cultura forestal por lo que no fue dificil motivar a los propietarios de fincas en participar del programa de manejo de bosque secundario.

- A pesar que a nivel de mapas se tenga como bosque secundario áreas de cobertura forestal, las mismas siempre deben ser visitadas para verificar el uso, tiende a confundirse con plantaciones forestales en abandono o repastos con mucha presencia de árboles.

- Los bosques secundarios corresponden con áreas muy fragmentadas por lo que lograr un impacto grande requiere de mucho esfuerzo.

- Se deben tener muy claros los objetivos del proyecto a la hora de plantearlos al propietario del bosque para lograr llegar con el restauración adecuado donde el fin primordial es el mantenimiento del bosque en sus funciones ecosistémicas.

Planning phase

Inception phase

Local

Holding activities to build capability and improve awareness

The ABS project has been widely promoted throughout Guangxi, with about 50 promotional activities, 20 training sessions and related meetings, and more than 10,000 participants online and offline, to help with Guangxi ABS legislation and benefit-sharing.

These activities not only enhance the capacity building of relevant personnel, but also raise public awareness of biodiversity conservation and benefit-sharing.

Public awareness of - and public support for - program activities ensures success.

Planning phase

Inception phase

Implementation

Documentation and dissemination of results

Local

Subnational

National

Conduct a baseline survey on biological genetic resources and related traditional knowledge

The project team investigated, collected, and summarized the protection, development, utilization, and benefit-sharing of 30 exemplar genetic resources in Guangxi, carried out case investigations and research on the development and utilization of traditional knowledge related to genetic resources of five ethnic minorities in Guangxi Zhuang, including Zhuang, Yao, Maonan, Mulao and Jing ethnic groups.

The establishment of a database for biogenetic resources and their related traditional knowledge in Guangxi, together with the Survey on the Status Quo of Biogenetic Resources and Their Development and Utilization in Guangxi and the Management Requirements, Guangxi Traditional Knowledge Case Study Report and Guangxi Traditional Knowledge Cataloging Report.

The provision of scientific guidance is required for the proper protection, development, utilization and sharing of biogenetic resources in Guangxi.

Improve the construction of the access and benefit-sharing system for biogenetic resources

Guangxi establishes a cross-sectoral coordination and cooperation mechanism and a stakeholder coordination mechanism. A management mechanism for access and benefit sharing of biogenetic resources is established under the comprehensive governance of the department in charge of ecology and environment and the supervision of the departments related to development and reform, agriculture and rural areas, forestry, etc. The project management is carried out at the provincial, municipal, and county levels so joint efforts can be made in ensuring the access and benefit-sharing of biological heritage resources.

Experts from 31 universities, research institutes, and other relevant units, such as Minzu University of China, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Guangxi University, were hired to form a provincial technical expert team to provide consultation and technical support for the access and benefit-sharing of biogenetic resources in Guangxi.

It is necessary to improve the construction of the access and benefit-sharing system for biogenetic resources.

Documentation and dissemination of results

Local

Subnational

National

Collaborative and Comprehensive Training

WAB-Net brings together stakeholders from diverse sectors and backgrounds to participate in uniquely detailed and thorough capacity-building and hands-on trainings. Field teams consisting of ecologists, government officials representing health and environmental ministries, and students and academic faculty are trained to carry out research while keeping themselves and the bats safe. A bat ecologist will spend several weeks each year in the field teaching the team how to capture, handle, sample, and release bats with biosafety considerations woven throughout each step.

A bat ecologist familiar with the unique aspects of the taxonomic group and biosafety practices works in collaboration with regional project partners to design standardized field protocols and subsequently implements the field trainings in each country. This uniquely hands-on approach to training field teams ensures the standardization of field protocols across cultures and disciplines in the region.

WAB-Net serves as the central coordination point for these trainings across the Western Asia region. There is a wide diversity of stakeholders participating, including in their backgrounds and areas of expertise. WAB-Net facilitators learn from the individuals they’re training, creating more culturally relevant lessons. By bringing lessons from one country to another, WAB-Net can enable conversations and collaboration over areas of shared interest, furthering partnerships that would have otherwise been politically difficult to build.

Crisis Prioritization

Throughout the first months of 2020, there was an overwhelming amount of confusion and stress surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide. In the face of this drastically changing reality, the IUCN SSC Primate Specialist Group was able to come together quickly and efficiently to identify researchers’ needs, gather relevant information, and create an essential set of guidelines. A rapid mobilization of the global network of great ape specialists was able to translate the publication into multiple languages, disseminating this crucial tool to people working in the field across multiple regions.

The Primate Specialist Group’s active and participatory membership was key to their successful prioritization of work in the face of an unprecedented and deadly pandemic.

As the COVID-19 crisis swept the globe many people sought further purpose in their work. The members of the Primate Specialist Group were motivated by the sense of urgency gripping all walks of life and wanted to take action in a positive way. These guidelines were essential not only for people to safely continue field work, but also for the members looking to find meaning during a particularly bleak time.