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ArticleBotanical exploration of Luzon Key biodiversity areas in the Philippines: Impact to biodiversity conservation
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
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No results found.Conservation priority is essential to minimize biodiversity loss as it ensures that conservation action focuses on the species at the greatest risk of extinction and on the sites that are most important for their protection. The study presents the initial assessment of collected Philippine threatened species during the botanical exploration in selected key biodiversity areas (KBAs) in Luzon Island, Philippines. KBAs are critical habitats prioritized for conservation based on their vulnerability and replaceability. Initial results revealed a collection of germplasm comprising of 67 Philippine threatened plant species from six KBAs namely Mount Makiling Forest Reserve (Laguna), Quezon Protected Landscape (Quezon Area), Bicol National Park (Daet, Bicol), San Isidro, Narra (Palawan), Aurora State College of Technology (Baler, Aurora) and Batanes Protected Landscape (Basco, Batanes). Of these 67 Philippine threatened plant species, 10 species are critically endangered (CR), 8 species are endangered (EN), 32 species are vulnerable (VU), and 17 species are other threatened species (OTS). The presence of the threatened species in Luzon KBAs confirms a degree of vulnerability and irreplaceability and therefore should be prioritized for conservation. Conservation action and geographically specific strategies must be devised to protect the individual species and safeguard representative habitats in these KBAs. Keywords: conservation priority, threatened species, vulnerability, irreplaceability ID: 3623483 -
ArticleA participatory action research approach to community-based fire prevention and peatland restoration in Indonesia
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
2022Also available in:
No results found.Over the past several decades, vegetation fires have become regular events in Southeast Asia, Central Africa and Latin America. Indonesia’s vegetation and peat fires in 2015 and 2019 emitted significant greenhouse gas emissions and caused transboundary haze across Southeast Asian countries. Governments, NGOs and international donors have been campaigning for ‘zero and controlled burning’, however, the use of fire across the landscape still occurs. Using fire significantly reduces the cost and time of land preparation, yet it poses important negative environmental and climate externalities. A main challenge, therefore, is to introduce fire-free alternatives for land preparation. While corporations are well-equipped with knowledge and technology, communities require specialized support in learning, and provided with access to resources and technologies to implement alternatives for land preparation without burning. This paper explains the gradual change in behavior of selected communities in land preparation and farming practice on peatlands in Sumatra. We used participatory action research (PAR) approaches to transform behavior of the participating communities. PAR is a trans-disciplinary approach, where various scientific disciplines are combined with local knowledge and experience. With the community as co-researchers, the PAR steps of reflection-planning-action-monitoring were completed from 2018-2020. Communities identified, formulated, tested, and implemented peat-adapted business models in several locations (action arenas). Results show some degree of success in changing behaviour of the communities towards eco-friendly business and land management. We describe how upscaling and out-scaling of the methods and outcomes were conducted through communications and engagement with stakeholders at different levels, ranging from district, province, national and international. Keywords: Climate change, Human health and well-being, Adaptive and integrated management, Economic Development, Landscape management ID: 3486775 -
ArticleAsserting ancestral domain rights on benefit sharing in power generation: The case of Sibuyan Mangyan Tagabukid in Sibuyan Island, Romblon, Philippines
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
2022Also available in:
No results found.In early 2000, the Romblon Electric Cooperative/Cantingas Mini-Hydro Power Corporation (ROMELCO/CHPC) set up a run-off-river hydropower with 900-kW installed facility within the ancestral domain of the Sibuyan Mangyan Tagabukid (SMT) in Sibuyan Island, Romblon without seeking a proper free and prior informed consent (FPIC). SMT is formally organized in 1993 as the Asosasyon ng Tribong Sibuyan Mangyan Tagabukid (ATSMT) who fought the ROMELCO/CHPC through metalegal and legal means asserting their rights over their ancestral domains. This paper documents the struggles of the Sibuyan Mangyan Tagabukid, the lessons learned in asserting their IP rights, particularly the continuing challenge in obtaining royalty from ROMELCO/CHPC, together with support groups like the Foundation for the Philippine Environment (FPE) and other partners. This is an excellent case study where the continuing growth and maturity of an IP organization is highlighted as it seeks to empower itself and assert their rights over their ancestral domain. The paper concludes with key lessons in mainstreaming ICCs/IPs participation in environmental governance, particularly in terms of benefits sharing in the power sector. The lessons include IP mobilization, capacity-building, engagement in advocacy and policy reforms as the IP group navigates through the contested realm of national laws (e.g. Indigenous Peoples Rights Act, Electric Power Industry Reform Act), among others. Keywords: Ancestral Domain, Hydropower, IP Rights, Benefit Sharing, FPIC, Royalty, Environmental Governance ID: 3621345
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