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LIvIng hIMALAYAs Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal Value Actions • Source of fresh water • securing biodiversity for 1 billion people and ensuring its • 30% of all plants and sustainable use reptiles and 40% of all • ensuring food security amphibians are unique and securing livelihoods to the region • securing Himalayan natural freshwater systems • Indian Himalayas hold amount of carbon roughly equal to total annual Asian carbon emissions from fossil fuels 44 PAKISTAN 1 BILLIon souRCe oF FResh WAteR FoR 1 BILLIon PeoPLe INDIA NEPAL • ensuring energy security and supporting alternate technologies BHUTAN BANGLADESH 60 MILLIon LIveLIhooDs oF 60 MILLIon PeoPLe DePenD on the Mekong RIveR MYANMAR VIET NAM LAo PDR THAILAND CAMBoDIA PEoPLE’S REPUBLIC oF CHINA BRUNEI DARUSSALAM MALAYSIA INDoNESIA gReAteR Mekong suBRegIon Cambodia, the PRC, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand, and Viet Nam Value • 1,231 new species were discovered between 1997 and 2008 • The largest inland fishery in the world ($1.4-3.9 billion USD/ year) • Livelihoods of 60 million people depend on the Mekong River • About 100 million hectares of forests capturing globally significant carbon stocks PHILIPPINES Actions • Restoring biodiversity conservation corridors • Mainstreaming environment in planning through tools such as Strategic Environmental Assessments and Environmental Performance Assessments • Establishing Sustainable financing incentives such as REDD+ and PES • Promoting Sustainable hydropower. TIMoR-LESTE
PAPUA NEW GUINEA CoRAL tRIAngLe Value • 120 million people depend directly on local marine and coastal resources • Total value of international fisheries exports from CT countries $3.8 billion • Home to 3,000 species of fish and 37% of all coral reef fish species heARt oF BoRneo Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia and Malaysia Value • The largest contiguous forest area remaining in Southeast Asia (22 million ha) • 6% of the world’s total biodiversity • Average of 3 new species discovered per month • Vast range of ecosystem services SoLoMoN ISLANDS Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Solomon Islands, and Timor-Leste • Home to six of the world’s seven species of marine turtles and a majority of the planet’s mangroves (and 51 of the 70 world’s mangrove species) Actions CTI-CFF Regional Action Plan: • Designation and management of priority seascapes including climate regulation through carbon storage and sequestration (the HoB landscape stores an estimated 3.2 billion tonnes of carbon) • $1.2 billion tourism industry in Sabah with more than 2 million visitors per year Actions HoB Strategic Plan of Action: • Transboundary Management • Ecosystem Approach to Management of Fisheries (EAFM) • Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) • Climate change adaptation measures • Improvement of threatened species status The boundaries, colors, denominations, and any other information shown on the map do not imply any judgment on the legal status of any territory, or any endorsement or acceptance of such boundaries, colors, denominations, or information • Protected Areas Management • Sustainable Natural Resource Management • Ecotourism Development • Capacity Building 22 22 MILLIon hA oF RAInFoRest –- the LARgest ContIguous FoRest AReA ReMAInIng In southeAst AsIA $3.8 $3.8 BILLIon totAL vALue oF InteRnAtIonAL FIsheRIes eXPoRts FRoM Ct CountRIes 45
Page 1 and 2: REPORT JUNE 2012 Ecological footpri
Page 3 and 4: Contents Foreword 5 Acknowledgement
Page 5 and 6: FoReWoRD The widespread loss of nat
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Page 9 and 10: ACknoWLeDgeMents ADB and WWF signed
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Page 13 and 14: 17% teRRestRIAL PRoteCteD AReAs noW
Page 15 and 16: This report highlights major initia
Page 17 and 18: Young boy holding a Bagrid catfish,
Page 19 and 20: Most of these threats stem from hum
Page 21 and 22: © James Morgan / WWF International
Page 23 and 24: The Ecological Footprint of nations
Page 25 and 26: 47% the CARBon CoMPonent RePResents
Page 27 and 28: Papua New Guinea Malaysia Biocapaci
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Page 57 and 58: 50% IF CuRRent CLIMAte tRenDs ContI
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Page 63 and 64: hALtIng the DeCLIne AnD PotentIAL e
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Page 67 and 68: 2011 In 2011, WWF AnD the InteRnAtI
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Page 73 and 74: 170,000 gMs BCC PRojeCt tARgets 170
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Page 83 and 84: Extensive grazing by domestic lives
Page 85 and 86: The Living Himalayas InItIAtIves --
Page 87 and 88: Agricultural worker Pangbuche Chosa
Page 89 and 90: 2009 In 2009, the goveRnMent oF Bhu
Page 91 and 92: The Sacred Himalayas Bhutan Biologi
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Conclusion the GMS and the Coral Tr
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Conclusion The large-scale ecosyste
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Food and Agriculture Organization.
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Thailand and Viet Nam. Vientiane, L
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Abbreviations ADB Asian Development
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