Status, trends and future scenarios for forest conservation including protected areas in the Asia-Pacific region

86 Pages·1997·3 MB·English

by  Paine, J.R.

ASIA-PACIFIC FORESTRY SECTOR OUTLOOK STUD
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Working Paper No: APFSOS/WP/04
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Working Paper No: APFSOS/WP/04
STATUS, TRENDS AND FUTURE SCENARIOS FOR
FOREST CONSERVATION INCLUDING PROTECTED
AREAS IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION
by
James R. Paine
World Conservation Monitoring Centre
with contributions from
Neil Byron
Centre for International Forestry Research
and
Mark Poffenberger
University of California: Berkeley
Center for Southeast Asia Studies
Forestry Policy and Planning Division, Rome
Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok
Rome, May 1997
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The Asia-Pacific Forestry Sector Outlook Study is being undertaken under the
auspices of the Asia-Pacific Forestry Commission.
This report comes under Workplan Number E25.6.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INFORMATION NOTE ON ASIA-PACIFIC FORESTRY SECTOR OUTLOOK
STUDY
i
INTRODUCTION
1
TheAsia-PacificRegion: Exceptional BiodiversityValue 1
Policy Issues 3
Legal Issues 3
International Obligations 4
Forest Conservation in theAsia-PacificR^ion 4
Prospects forForest Conservation to2010 5
1. PROTECTED AREAS IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION: AN OVERVIEW 5
1.1 Management Categories: ABasisforInternational Comparison 5
1.2Management Categories: PolicyImplications 7
1.3 Growth ofProtectedAreasinAsia-Pacific 7
1.4 CurrentExtentofProtected AreasintheRegion 11
1.5 TheContribution oftheForestry SectortoForest Conser\'ation ThroughtheEstablishmentof
Conservation andProtectionForestReserves 16
2. PROSPECTS FOR FUTURE DEVELOPMENT OF PROTECTED AREAS IN THE
ASIA-PACIFIC REGION TO 2010 18
2.1 FutureScenarios 18
2.2 CostofIncreasingtheProtected AreasEstate 22
2.3AnEvolvingProtectedAreas Strategy: DevelopingCommunity andLandscapeOriented Solutions..23
3. REPRESENTATION OF ECOSYSTEMS IN EXISTING PROTECTED AREAS
NETWORKS, AND PRIORITIES FOR THE FUTURE DEVELOPMENT. 24
3.1ForcesDrivingProtectedAreasinAsia-Pacificto2010: SystemDesignPrinciplesforaSuccessful
Outcome 24
3.2AnalysisofCurrentProtection byEcofloristic Zone 25
3.3 InsularSouth-EastAsia 27
3.4 Discussion 28
3.5 ReviewofIndomalayanProtectedAreasSystems 29
3.6 China: PrioritiesfortheFuture 30
4. INVESTMENTS IN PROTECTED AREAS IN ASIA-PACIFIC 31
4.1 Trends andProspectsto2010 34
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CONSERVATION, SUSTAINABLE USE AND MANAGEMENT OF FORESTS
5.
OUTSIDE PROTECTED AREAS IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION 34
5.1 TheEconomic and Social SignificanceofForestsintheAsia-Pacific Region 34
5.2Forest Conservation OutsideProtected Areas-MajorTrendsand DrivingForces 35
5.3 Integration ofConservationwith MultipleUseand Industrial Forestry 39
5.4 FutureDirectionsforForest Conservation OutsideProtectedAreas 41
5.5 Communityforestry inAsiain 2010 43
CONCLUSION 51
6.
BIBLIOGRAPHY 56
ANNEX 1 LIST OF ASIA PACIFIC COUNTRIES AND TERRITORIES, BY WCPA
REGION 62
ANNEX 2 ADHERENCE TO INTERNATIONAL AND REGIONAL CONVENTIONS
AND PROGRAMMES 63
ANNEX 3 1994 PROTECTED AREAS MANAGEMENT CATEGORIES 64
ANNEX 4 NATIONAL AND SUB-REGIONAL PROTECTED AREA NETWORK
SUMMARY 66
ANNEX 5 SUMMARY OF CONSERVATION PRIORITIES IDENTIFIED IN THE
INDOMALAYA PROTECTED AREAS REVIEW (MACKINNON, 1996) 69
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ANNEX 6 INVESTMENTS IN PROTECTED AREAS BY GOVERNMENT 72
ANNEX 7 NUMBER OF ETHNOLINGUISTIC GROUPS IN ASIA COUNTRIES 73
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INFORMATIONNOTE ON ASIA-PACIFIC FORESTRY SECTOR OUTLOOK STUDY
At its sixteenth session held in Yangon, Myanmar, in January 1996, the Asia-Pacific Forestry Commission,
which has membership open to all governments in the Asia-Pacific region, decided to carry out an outlook
study for forestry with horizon year 2010. The study is being coordinated by FAG through its regional office
in Bangkok and its Headquarters in Rome, but is being implemented in close partnership with governments,
manyofwhichhavenominatednational focal points.
The scope ofthe study is to look at the main external and sectoral developments in policies, programmes and
institutions that will affectthe forestry sectorand toassess fromthis the likely direction ofits evolution and to
present its likely sittiation in2010. The study involves assessment ofcurrent statusbut also oftrends from the
pastandthe main forceswhichareshaping those trendsand thenbuildson this toexplore futureprospects.
Working papers have been contributed or cormnissioned on a wide range of topics. They fall under the
following categories: coimtry profiles, selected in-depth country or sub-regional studies and thematic studies.
Working papers are prepared by individual authors or groups of authors on their own professional
responsibility; therefore, the opinions expressed in them do not necessarily reflect the views of their
employers, the governments of the Asia-Pacific Forestry Commission or of the Food and Agriculture
Organization. In preparing the substantive report to be presented at the next session of the Asia-Pacific
Forestry Commission early in 1998, material from theseworking paperswill l^e an important elementbutwill
beblendedandinterpretedalongsidealotofothermaterial.
Working papers are being produced and issued as they arrive. Some effort at uniformity of presentation is
being attempted but the contents are only minimally edited for style or clarity. FAG welcomes from readers
any information which they feel would beuseful to thestudy onthesubject ofany oftheworkingpapers oron
any other subject that has importance for the Asia-Pacific forestry sector. Such material can be mailed to the
contacts given below from whom further copies ofthese working papers, as well as more information on the
Asia-Pacific Forestry SectorStudy, canbeobtained:
Rome: Mr. Mafa Chipeta Bangkok: Mr. Patrick Durst
SeniorForestry Officer Regional Forestry Officer
Policy and Planning Division FAG Regional Office for Asiaandthe
Forestry Department Pacific
Foodand Agriculture Organizationofthe Maliwan Mansion
UnitedNations Phra Atit Road
VialedelleTermedi Caracalla Bangkok 10200
Rome, 00100, ITALY THAILAND
Tel: [phone] Tel: [phone]
Fax: [phone] Fax: [phone]
Email: <mafa,[email protected]> Email: <[email protected]>
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