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Management and monitoring for HCV 1.4 Management Recommendation Reduced Impact Logging can take place, provided; Experts endorsement (see Appendix 6 for expert list) indicating that these endemics can withstand timber harvesting. Guidance Expert consultation before, during and after felling. Strict complicance to the PNG LCOP and Environment Act 2000. Medium to Large Scale Allocation of up to 20% of protected area in a fmu (large scale operation) shall be determined by an identified authoritative Institution/Researcher/Expert of a suspected taxa (En, Cr, DD species by CITES, IUCN, CI, Protected by PNG Fauna Act) or Ecosystems (critical ecosystems) agreed upon by the land owners. Small Scale Allocation of up to 10% of protected area in a small scale fmu shall be determined by the landowners, advised by specifically trained support organisation staff Other aspects of logging operations should be also considered, like log transportation along waterways/marine routes, ie/ Gulf/Western Provinces. 17
3. HCV2. Forest areas containing globally, regionally, or nationally significant large landscape level forests, contained within, or containing the management unit, where viable population of most, if not all naturally occurring species, exist in natural patterns or distribution and abundance. Description This part of the HCVF definition aims to identify forests that contain viable populations of most, if not all naturally occurring species. It also includes forests that contain important sub-populations of very wide-ranging species (e.g. Adelbert and Huon mountains may contain sub-populations of plants and animals found throughout the northern mountain ranges) even though the sub-populations may not in themselves be viable in the long term. It includes forests where ecological processes and ecosystem functioning (e.g. natural disturbance regimes, forest succession, species distributions and abundance) are wholly or relatively unaffected by recent human activities. Such forests are necessarily large (tens of thousands of hectares) and will be less affected by recent human activities than other forests within the region. Such forests are increasingly rare and continue to be threatened throughout the world, through processes such as deforestation, forest fragmentation and degradation. Papua New Guinea retains a relatively large proportion of forest cover so the working group has had to decide the extent to which patterns of historical and current use as well as current threats had reduced the ability of forests to support the natural array of species. It is also worth emphasising that the forest considered under HCV2 is not necessarily confined to a particular administrative unit (e.g. forest management unit). This is because several contiguous administrative units of forest land may together form a significant large landscape level forest. An individual administrative unit can be a HCVF under HCV2 if it is whole or part of a significant large, landscape level forest. Definition Where opportunity exists to append new protected areas to existing or proposed PAs, to bolster conservation of all forest types, these should be considered as HCVFs. On the mainland, contiguous forest blocks around PAs that can potentially become protected areas or areas that may become PAs extending beyond 500,000 ha in size are considered HCVFs. On satellite islands, contiguous forest blocks around PAs that can potentially become protected areas extending beyond 20% of the total island forest cover are considered HCVFs. On both mainland and satellite islands, areas that represent significant contribution to large landscape-level forests through connectivity for ecological and ecosystem processes are considered HCVFs including mangrove swamp forests of PNG. Any contigious forest area remaining from any forest type (Appendix 8), 50 % of which has been removed, and is found either on the mainland or satelite islands,is to be considered HCVF. Where possible, or where data is available, it is recommended that the large landscape-level HCVFs be identified through reliable evidence of the presence of at least five to 10 breeding pairs of an 18
Page 1 and 2: High Conservation Value Forest Tool
Page 3 and 4: Contents ACKNOWLEDGEMENT...........
Page 5 and 6: Executive Summary The Papua New Gui
Page 7 and 8: HCV5. Forest areas fundamental to m
Page 9 and 10: STEP PERIOD/DATE TASK/PROCESS PEOPL
Page 11 and 12: Who are regional and national exper
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Page 15 and 16: Within Wildlife Management Areas ti
Page 17 and 18: Compile ecological studies, if any,
Page 19 and 20: endemic species, as they are compil
Page 21: Rationale It is likely that many cr
Page 25 and 26: Identify small blocks of forest tha
Page 27 and 28: Identification of HCV 3 Tasks Deter
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Page 31 and 32: Definition A forest should be consi
Page 33 and 34: Management and monitoring for HCV 4
Page 35 and 36: Employment, income and products are
Page 37 and 38: • Utilise knowledge of existing C
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Page 43 and 44: Glossary (all definitions are taken
Page 45 and 46: Local endemics CA Management Plan P
Page 47 and 48: Bibliography 1. Anders, S.B., Banka
Page 49 and 50: 39. Htsgiks, D.P., and Borrell, O.W
Page 51 and 52: Appendix 1 - Critically endangered,
Page 53 and 54: # [Scientific Name] Common Name(s)
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Page 57 and 58: Ecoregion Class Genus Species Commo
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Page 71 and 72: Appendix 6 - List of Expert Consult
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Name Expertise/Position Novotny Voj
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Appendix 7 - List of Stakeholders f
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Name Position Organisation Address
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Appendix 8 - The Vegetation Types o
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Table 2 Alpha code Classification o
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Appendix 9 - Threatened Trees of Pa
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Appendix 10 - Highly Threatened Spe
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Appendix 11 - Map of Protected Area
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