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

Glossary
Basic Need
Biodiversity
Buffer zone
Centre of Plant
Diversity
Corridor
Ecoregion
Endemic Bird Area
Endemic species
Global 200
Fundamental
Importance
Keystone resources
Keystone species
Natural Forest
Plantation forest
ProForest
Requirements for the economic or bio-psychological survival of an
individual or a group
The variety among living organisms from all sources including, inter
alia, terrestrial, marine and other aquatic ecosystems and the
ecological complexes of which they are part; this includes diversity
within species and of ecosystems.
Area surrounding a national park in which development is controlled
to minimise impact on the park, and to support the conservation of
biodiversity.
Areas identified by IUCN as having globally important
concentrations of plant species.
A forested link between two larger blocks of forest along which
wildlife can travel
Or ecological region is large area of relatively uniform climate that
harbor a characteristic set of species and ecological communities.
Areas that contain a concentration of endemic bird species.
Specifically areas that contain the entire breeding ranges of two or
more restricted-range bird species (those with a breeding range less
than 50,000 km 2 )
Species that are considered as those species that are geographically
confined to one or more areas, large or small, within both Viet Nam
and the Indochinese sub-region.
A list of the world’s most biologically important ecoregions as
defined by WWF.
A forest service which, 1) contributes in the range of 15-20% to
either the family monetary economy or the family diet and which can
not be replaced by an easily implemented alternative, i.e., the use is
not discretionary and/or, 2) whose loss or degradation would
seriously impact the health and well-being of the users.
Those resources that play a unique and important role in the
ecosystem function and that their removal will result in a
fundamental change in that system.
Those species that play a unique and important role in the ecosystem
function and that their removal will result in a fundamental change in
that system.
Forest areas that are still made up of native species not artificially
planted by man. They can be heavily degraded but still considered
natural (as compared to plantation forest)
A man made forest usually planted with fast growing non-native
species, e.g. Pinus spp, Eucalyptus spp.
Forestry consultancy from England that produced the first global
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