(HCVF) Toolkit for Malaysia - HCV Resource Network

More documents

Recommendations

Info

Abbreviations CFS CITES CR DID DTCP DWNP EN EPU FDPM FDRS FMP FMU FRC FRIM FSC HCV HCVF IBA IUCN KDCA LAC LOAM MC&I(2002) MNS MTCC MTCS MMD NCS NFC NGO NRE NREB PACOS PERHILITAN PFE PM RIL SFC STA TPA UKM VU WCS WWF Central Forest Spine Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora Critically Endangered Department of Irrigation and Drainage Department of Town and Country Planning Department of Wildlife and National Parks Malaysia (PERHILITAN) Endangered Economic Planning Unit Forest Department Peninsular Malaysia Fire Danger Rating System Forest Management Plan Forest Management Unit Forest Research Centre Forest Research Institute Malaysia Forest Stewardship Council High Conservation Value High Conservation Value Forest Important Bird Area International Union for Conservation of Nature Kadazandusun Cultural Association Sabah Limits of Acceptable Change Landscape Outcome Assessment Methodology Malaysian Criteria and Indicators for Forest Management Certification Malaysian Nature Society Malaysian Timber Certification Council Malaysian Timber Certification Scheme Malaysian Meteorological Department National Conservation Strategy National Forestry Council Non-Governmental Organisation Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment Natural Resources and Environment Board (Sarawak) Partners of Community Organisations Jabatan Perlindungan Hidupan Liar dan Taman Negara (DWNP) Permanent Forest Estate Peninsular Malaysia Reduced Impact Logging Sarawak Forestry Corporation Sarawak Timber Association Totally Protected Area (Sarawak) Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Vulnerable Wildlife Conservation Society World Wide Fund for Nature -ii-
Introduction 1.1 Objective The High Conservation Value Forest (HCVF) Toolkit for Malaysia aims to provide an overview of the practical guidance available to forest managers and other stakeholders to identify, manage, and monitor HCVFs in Malaysia as specified by various national and international standards of forest management. In particular, the toolkit is intended to help forest managers comply with Principle 9 in both the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and the Malaysian Criteria and Indicators for Forest Management Certification [MC&I(2002)], the standard adopted by the National Steering Committee for the certification of natural 1 forests in Malaysia . 1.2 Background The HCVF concept is being promoted and applied by schemes involved in the certification of responsible forest management in Malaysia. However, it is generally felt that there is insufficient guidance on the implementation of the HCVF concept. A series of workshops and meetings were held to initiate and facilitate the development of a HCVF toolkit for Malaysia. These efforts were spearheaded by WWF- Malaysia who has formed a Technical Working Group to develop this toolkit. This toolkit is the outcome of various stages of review and consultation. After internally reviewing the 1st Draft, an expert review (written feedback on the 2nd Draft was received from 12 individuals/organisations) and a two-day expert group discussion was held in May 2008 (see list of participants in Appendix 12) to produce the 3rd Draft. Separate stakeholder consultations for Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah and Sarawak provided input for the 4th Draft. Further comments resulted in a 5th Draft, and a final, national-level consultation, involving all stakeholders, produced the 6th and Final Draft (see Appendix 13 for list of participants). 1.3 Overview of HCVF Besides their economic value, forests also contain environmental and social values, such as wildlife habitat, watershed protection and cultural significance. Areas within forests where these values are considered to be of outstanding significance or of critical importance based on an agreed set of criteria can be defined as High Conservation Value Forest (HCVF) areas. Identifying these values, knowing to whom these values are considered important, and locating the forest areas which harbour these values is the essential first step for the effective assessment and management of these values. The HCVF concept was initially developed by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) for use in forest management certification. Within FSC certification, forest managers are required to identify any HCVF attribute that occur within their individual forest management units and manage them in order to maintain or enhance the attributes identified. The FSC definition encompasses exceptional or critical ecological attributes, ecosystem services and social functions. 1 Lists of most of the relevant legislation and associated guidelines are included in the MC&I(2002). -1-
Page 1 and 2: High Conservation Value Forest (HCV
Page 3: Contents Abbreviations Introduction
Page 7 and 8: 1.4 What is this toolkit? The HCVF
Page 9 and 10: 2 Toolkit Proper: Interpretation of
Page 11 and 12: Management and Monitoring for HCV 1
Page 13 and 14: HCV 2 Landscape-level Forest Global
Page 15 and 16: Identification of HCV 3 Task Determ
Page 19 and 20: The Sabah Forestry Department has r
Page 23 and 24: Feinsinger, P. (2001). Designing Fi
Page 25 and 26: Appendix 1. Threatened & Endangered
Page 27 and 28: 39. Lesong, Pahang: Trigonostemon w
Page 29 and 30: For example, a helicopter nest-coun
Page 31 and 32: • Conserve herbaceous plants with
Page 33 and 34: Appendix 4. List of Important Bird
Page 35 and 36: Appendix 5. Habitat preferences of
Page 37 and 38: Appendix 7. Forest type classificat
Page 39 and 40: Appendix 9. Guide to identifying fo
Page 41 and 42: Not all the cells need to be filled
Page 43: STEP 4: Identify areas of critical
Page 46 and 47: Sabah Bornean Biodiversity & Ecosys
Page 48 and 49: Academic/Research institutions Fore
Page 50 and 51: Appendix 12. List of participants i
Page 52 and 53: Petaling Jaya, Selangor, 13 January
Page 54 and 55:
Final Workshop, Kuala Lumpur, 29 Ju
Page 56 and 57:
Appendix 14. Mammal Tracks of Thail
Page 58 and 59:
PICTORIAL REFERENCE TO TRACKS OF PA
Page 64:
WWF-Malaysia, the national conserva
show all

(HCVF) Toolkit for Malaysia - HCV Resource Network

You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles

Delete template?

Save as template?