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conservation value for mammals and birds by the desk analysis, indicator mammal or bird
species were found in 81% of them. Similarly, of surveyed forest compartments predicted by
the desk analysis to be of high conservation value for Gymnosperms, all were found to
contain Gymnosperms of high conservation value by the field survey. Therefore, it is possible
to have a high level of confidence in the results of the desk analysis: compartments which
were predicted as being of high conservation value but not surveyed can be assumed to
contain forest of high conservation value.
Photo 1. Field survey team debating the best possible route for survey.
When an indicator species was not recorded in an individual forest compartment this does not
indicate that it is absent from that forest compartment, nor does it indicate that that forest
compartment is not forest of high conservation value. Rather, the results of the field survey
taken as a whole validate the desk analysis and the criteria used to remotely identify forest of
high conservation value in the project area.
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