Sustainable forest
management and rehabilitation
in the Asia-Pacific
an APFNet perspective
May 2015, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Xia Jun
xia_jun@apfnet.cn
Contents
• Whom we are
• What we are doing
• Our initiatives under ASEM
Whom we are
• Asia-Pacific Network for Sustainable Forest Management
and Rehabilitation
• An initiative proposed and agreed by the APEC leaders in
Sydney, Australia November 2007
• Formally launched in
Beijing, China, September 2008
Our Mission
• Help promote and improve sustainable forest management
and rehabilitation
Objectives
a) contribute to the achievement of the aspirational goal of
increasing forest cover in the AP region by at least 20
million ha of all types of forests by 2020;
b) help to enhance forest carbon stocks and improve forest
quality and productivity by promoting rehabilitation of
existing but degraded forests and reforestation and
afforestation of suitable cleared lands in the region;
c) Help to reduce forest loss and degradation and their
associated emissions of greenhouse gases by strengthening
sustainable forest management and enhancing biodiversity
conservation; and
d) help to increase the socio-economic benefits of forests in
the region
Governance structure
31 members, including 26 economies and 5 int’l organizations
31 members across the region, including 26
economies and 5 international organizations:
What we are doing
4 Pillars
• Demonstration
projects
• Capacity
building
21
demonstration
projects;
With APFNet
funding
estimated at
USD 12,000,000
presence in
APEC, ASEM,
GMS
• Policy
dialogues
50 scholarship
students; 14
training
workshops, 216
officials; forestry
college deans
mechanism
practical models
of sustainable
forest
management in
the Asia-Pacific
region through
its website and
publications
• Information
sharing
Capacity Building Program
•50 scholarship students
•14 training workshops, 216 officials
•forestry college deans mechanism in AP
• Asia-Pacific Forestry College Deans’ Cooperative
Mechanism
• Innovative Sustainable Forest Management Education in
the Asia-Pacific Region launched in 2013, to develop six
core on-line courses on SFM
• One of the six courses is titled Forest Resource
Management and Protection
Discussing the use of MOOCs for
developing online forestry courses at the
Third Meeting
5 November, 2013, Rotorua, New Zealand
Policy Dialogues
• 1st APEC Meeting of Ministers Responsible for
Forestry, Beijing Statement
• 2nd APEC Meeting of Ministers Responsible for
Forestry, Cusco Statement
1st APEC MMRF, September 2011,
Beijing, China
2nd MMRF, August 2013,
Cusco, Peru
Demonstration Project
• 21 demonstration projects in the Asia-Pacific region
• Projects cover forest restoration, sustainable forest
resource management, forest and poverty reduction,
trans-boundary biodiversity conservation, rural
development, forest and climate change, forestry
education, forest policy…
• APFNet contribution is around USD 12,000,000
Demonstration of capacity
building of forest restoration
and sustainable forest
management in Vietnam
Demonstration of
Sustainable Upland
Agroforestry Systems in
Chinese Taipei
Information sharing
•APFNet website (www.apfnet.cn)
•Publications
Our initiatives under ASEM
2 Proposals by China at the 8th and 9th
ASEM Summit
A symposium on SFM to address Climate
Change
A forestry project supporting SFM in AP
ASEM Symposium on Sustainable Forest
Management to Address Climate Change,
June, 2011, Lin’an, China
• Participants including 45 senior forest policy officials and experts
from 17 ASEM countries, FAO RAP, UN-REDD and UNU
• Managing the competing demands of forest timber production and
forest conservation for ecosystem benefits
• Individual property rights and the need for land tenure reform
• Strengthening the adaptive capacity of forests to climate change
• REDD+ a great potential for achieving forest conservation in the
region
Sustainable Forest Management Project in Northern
Provinces of Lao PDR
• Goal: to explore and demonstrate innovative approaches on
Forest Restoration and Rehabilitation for Promoting
Sustainable Forest Management in Northern part of Lao
PDR
• Objectives:
a) explore, test and demonstrate effective approaches on
forest restoration and forest management and responding
mechanism to generate sustainable flow of benefit to
closely related stakeholders
b) strengthen forest law enforcement and promote
cooperation on trans-boundary biodiversity conservation
c) share information and knowledge of best practices on
forest restoration and rehabilitation
China
Bu Be ng Pa
? ha
Prod uctio n Forest
3 ,9 00 h a
Shang Y ong P A
44,050 ha
Myanmar
Prod uctio n Forest
4 ,0 51 h a
Mo uan g Pean g
Prod uctio n Forest
22,00 0 ha
Ton peu ng
Con serva tio n Forest
25 ,0 00 h a
Boke o
Reg en ara tio n Forest
16,00 0 ha
B.N amko
Prod uctio n Forest
17,00 0 ha
Nam Ha
National Protected Ar ea
223,000 ha
Prod uctio n Forest
78 0 ha
B.Na mgao
Protection Fo re st
60 ,0 00 ha
National and Provincal
Boundaries
Protected Forests
Production Forests
Regeneration Forest
Roads
Bu Beng PA
Land and Forest Used Planning and
Sustainable NTFPs Management
Forest Law
Enforcement
Capacity Development
Trans-boundary
Biodiversity
Conservation
• project duration: 01/07/2014-30/06/2019
• Total budget: USD 3,285,398
• APFNet contribution: USD 2,734,814
Project duration: 01/07/2014-30/06/2019
Total budget: USD 3,285,398.00
APFNet contribution: USD 2,734,814.00
Thank you!
Hvala lepa!
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