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ArticleExploring farmers’ engagement in tree planting and management in deforested areas in Cameroon’s western highlands
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
2022Also available in:
No results found.The paper explores the motivations, challenges, negotiating strategies and barriers of communities’ participation and engagement in tree planting and management in deforested area in Cameroon’s Western Highlands. We interviewed 120 respondents, including 92 participating farmers, 21 non-participating farmers and 7 field-based staff. We used the interview responses of the farmers as constitutive items to develop dimensions and scales of motivations, challenges and barriers to ecosystem restoration volunteering. The principal components analysis with oblique (Direct oblimin) rotation together with the scree plot and eigen values (total variance explained) was used to reduce the number of items in each dimension. The Cronbach reliability statistics was used to test the reliability constitutive items in each dimension. The linear regression analysis was used to examine how the different dimensions of motivations, challenges and barriers influence community ecosystem restoration stewardship volunteering. Community volunteering were initially driven by environmental factors only when personal economic and less so community benefits were met. Social dimension items were least perceived and were non-significant predictors of the community ecosystem restoration stewardship. Retaining and committing the restoration stewards to tree planting were mainly limited by management, financial, psychological and geographical location challenges. Non-participation and -involvement of some farmers was driven by economic, information, psychological and personal barriers. Negotiating strategies and recommendations are proposed to overcome the identified challenges and barriers. The local knowledge on ecosystem restoration stewardship motivations, challenges, barriers and negotiation strategies will inform policy and practice and improve on the success and sustainability of community- led ecosystem restoration initiatives in Cameroon and in other Central African countries. Keywords: ecosystem restoration motivations; ecosystem restoration challenges; ecosystem restoration barriers, negotiation strategies; ecosystem restoration volunteering; sustainable land management ID: 3617625 -
ArticleLinking conservation of forest genetic resources to species restoration in Western Himalayas
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
2022Also available in:
No results found.Himalayas are rich repositories of biodiversity and provide ecosystem goods and services to the communities of the area. Many ecologically and socio-economically important species of the Himalayan region are threatened due to their utilization, deforestation, degradation and climate change. These threaten the sustainability of forest genetic resources and highlight the importance of conservation and sustainable management of these resources. A research program on conservation of Forest Genetic Resources (FGRs) with special focus on the exploration of FGRs of North-West Himalayas has been undertaken with the support from Environment and Forest Ministry of India. Under the programme major activities undertaken are documentation of species populations, their characterization and germplasm storage. The population of the prioritized species are being explored, populations geo-tagged, phenological observations and species associations recorded. Their seeds are collected at maturity, processed, tested for quality and desiccated to safe moisture levels for storage. The seed storage physiology of important Himalayan species like spruce, fir, Acer spp., oaks, Carpinus, Buxus, Fraxinus, pines, rhododendrons, walnut, Corylus, Hippophae, medicinal shrubs/trees, etc. are being studied for chalking out a long-term ex situ conservation programme. Seeds of most of these species have orthodox seeds which after slow desiccation to lowest safe moisture levels are vacuum sealed and stored in seed bank at -180C for periodic regeneration. Thus, ex situ conservation becomes the focal point of gene conservation programme of FGRs of Himalayan Region. Conservation units of species, in nature, that maintain vital genetic diversity for the species survival and adaptive capacity for their sustenance are important. Utilizing the knowledge and information from long-term FGR conservation programmes for chalking out robust species restoration strategies, will only script the success stories. Keywords: Conservation, Forest Genetic Resources, Seeds,field germplasm bank, species restoration ID: 3486837 -
ArticleAdaptation of eucalyptus urophylla to volcanic land of Batur mountain forest, Indonesia
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
2022Also available in:
No results found.Batur Forest is a volcanic area that was ex-volcanic eruption. Efforts to rehabilitate forests with a critical land was by planting Eucalyptus urophylla. The aim of the study was to examine the adaptation of Eucalyptus urophylla species in critical areas of former volcanic eruptions that was dominated by hard rocks. The researches were done for a year (2019-2020). The method used was species test with permanent block plot design from 4 age levels, 1 year, 5 years, 10 years and 15 years. The study results showed growth of 1.02 cm in diameter and 1.10 m in height (1 year), 6.50 cm in diameter and 11.00 m in height (5 years), 13.25 cm in diameter and 18.40 m in height (10 years) and a diameter of 20.48 cm and a height of 23.00 m (15 years). Eucalyptus urophylla experienced the best tree diameter growth after 10 years old and on the contrary experienced a decrease in height. The Eucalyptus urophylla level of adaptation and suitability of on volcanic soils with low fertility and rocky soil is a recommendation to increase the quantity of this species of planting. So that the forest succession from rocky thickets to tree vegetation is faster than natural processes. Eucalyptus urophylla species is one of the flora that make up the savanna forest ecosystem and volcanic critical land in eastern Indonesia. Keywords : Adaptation, Eucalyptus urophylla, Volcanic land, Batur mountain forest ID: 3623267
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