English - HCV Resource Network

For how long do they think they can sustain
present levels before the resource will be
exhausted?
Is the use of the resource by the community
threatening other HCVs (such as endangered
species for example?)
Is the community hoping, planning or
wanting to reverse this trend ?
Are there some rules that are followed by
the community to regulate the use of this
resource?
Besides consultation with communities, this will require discussions with an
ecologist.
The excessive harvest may threaten the biodiversity of the forest, and may also
threaten the access to the resource by other communities who use it for building in
a sustainable manner.
If the resource is declining or threatening other HCVs but the communities are
ready to do something to counter this trend, then this may still qualify as an HCV.
The community seems not ready nor willing to address this. They consider it as an
irreversible trend beyond their control. Their strategy is to develop cash-crop
plantations as alternatives when the timber will have been exhausted.
Are the villagers ready to introduce such
rules, and/or enforce old/existing ones?
In this case, the commercial harvest of timber was conducted in a limited, sustainable way by a local community for a long time. Yet
they are now admitting that they have increased their harvest to unsustainable levels to take advantage of increased market
opportunities and prices. Yet they do not seem to have plans to counteract or mitigate this trend, their only hope is that when all the
timber will be exhausted, they will turn to cash crops as an alternative. This is not an HCV, because this is a knowingly excessive use of
a forest resource that threatens other HCVs, without any desires to restore the resource use to sustainable levels.