Vietnam High Conservation Value Forest Toolkit - HCV Resource ...

Examples of threats to HCVs include:
• HCV1: Hunting for food or trade.
• HCV2 : Road building
• HCV3: Clearance for agriculture.
• HCV4 : Clearance of agriculture, mining
• HCV5: Logging damage.
• HCV6: Out-migration.
4. Design management strategies for the HCV
The next stage is to draw up a detailed management plan. This plan should outline the
measures needed to be taken and how they should be implemented.
Where possible, management strategies should be based on previously known and tested
systems and hence creation of new and different strategies is not necessary. There are many
well known strategies that may be applicable to the values and situations in question.
In general there are 3 main types of management options:
• Protection of the area, through reserves, buffer zones, marking boundaries and control
of activities that degrade the HCV (e.g. hunting of rare species). Ecological or social
values can be maintained by protecting the areas where they are found, from
disturbance, or stopping collection.
• Management modification: Any threats to the HCVs which will be posed by
operations or other activities in the forest will need to be identified and documented.
This analysis should include all potential effects, both direct (e.g. harvesting operations
or use of chemicals) and indirect (e.g. increased hunting as a result of better access
along logging roads). Examples of modified management regimes might include
implementation of particular sustainable cutting cycles or reduced impact harvesting
techniques.
• Restoration is an important activity that is needed in certain areas to restore ecological
and/or cultural traits of the forest to previous conditions.
In many cases a single strategy may help abate many threats, and work to maintain many
values. Where possible management strategies should be developed that cover multiple values.
On the other hand, maintenance of a value may require a combination of strategies with
elements of protection, management modification, and restoration.
5. Integration of HCV management into overall management planning
For the successful implementation of management systems, the management plan for the
identified HCVs needs to be integrated with existing plans so that any clashes of management
strategies would be resolved. The management of HCVF needs to become an integral part of
general management of the area.
For those SFEs that are implementing FSC requirements, descriptions of each HCV, and the
management activities proposed to maintain or enhance them, should be included in the public
forest management plan.
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