Assessing and Capitalizing on the Potential to Enhance Forest Carbon Sinks through Forest

Landscape Restoration while Benefitting Biodiversity

Partnership Program

Contribution : Geotecnológica de Centro América, S.A.

Index

• International Programs • Background • Objectives • Methodology • Results

– National level – Regional level

• Conclusions • Available on website

CONABIO International Programs

GEF/World Bank

“Susteinable Production Systems and Biodiversity”

UICN-BMU

“Facilitating countries and communities in the design of pro-poor REDD-Plus benefit sharing schemes.”

IFAD

“Programme to Strengthen Community-Based Management in Support of the REDD+ in Mesoamerica” (PROFORCO)

UICN-NORAD

“Advancing REDD+: Mobilising private investment for community-based, carbon-intensive landscape restoration”

Background

• Within the initiative "The Bonn Challenge" launched in 2011, which promotes to restore

150 million hectares of forests and degraded lands worldwide, the International Union for

Conservation of Nature (IUCN) together with the Federal Ministry of Environment of

Germany (BMU), developed in 2012 the IUCN-BMU project in Mexico.

1.Identify potential areas to implement initiatives of forest landscape restoration* in Mexico.

2.The information generated is used as a tool to manage local and international financial

resources to guide restoration efforts.

Objectives

* Restoration: Retrieve the basic functions of ecosystems.

Methodology

A. Defining criteria

B. Gathering

C. Data proces

D. Evaluation multicriteria

E. Mapping

A. Defining criteria Workshop: • Participatory process with institutional

actors (30 professional) to define ecological, economic and social criteria.

INEGI (National Institute of Geography and Statistics) October 2012, Aguascalientes City, Mex.

B. Gathering

Working with other National Institutions: • Sharing information

Workshop, september 2012, CONABIO Office, México City

Institutions that participated in the workshop to define the criteria :

• 3 Deterioration levels National Comission Forest

• 3 Priority levels to restauration in Land forest with high risk to wood extraction

National Institute of Geography and Statistics

• 3 levels to deforestation risk National Ecology Institute & Climate Change

• 3 Priority levels to restauration classified by erosion risk according type of soil

National Institute of Geography and Statistics

C. Data process Forest zoning Deforestation risk

Potencial and real land use Erosion risk

Level of preservation of vegetation Fire resilience

C. Data process follow

Cloud forest

• 3 Priority levels to restauration classified by level of preservation of vegetation

National Comission Biodiversity

• 3 Priority levels to restauration in cloud forest land National Comission Biodiversity

• 3 Priority levels to restauration classified by fire resilience National Comission Biodiversity

Process 1. Cartographic overlay process in Geographic Information Systems (GIS).

2. Weighing and reclassify the final maps

3. Adding map with the most fragile ecosistem (Cloud forest)

D. Evaluation multicriteria

E. Mapping

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2 3

Results

The suggest surface for forest landscape restoration is 302.124 km2 (13% of the country)

Results: Regional level Attention sites for forest landscape restauration on biological corridors

100,440 ha

Results: Regional level

Lancantún River, march 2013 Paddock,march 2013

Worshop with local developmet agencies,march 2013

Conclusions

• It is essential to have a map that prioritizes potential sites for restoration.

• The map it is a good reference tool for future work in conjunction with other

institutions involved in forest resources in Mexico.

• It showed the potential of information management technologies and modeling

geographic space to address a complex problem of land use.

Ecoregions Areas of important bird conservation

Priority hydrologic regions Priority terrestrial regions

Priority sites for conservation of terrestrial biodiversity Areas of high biodiversity priority attention

www.conabio.gob.mx

http://www.conabio.gob.mx/informacion/gis/