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54 TA 4721-PRC: Preparing the Shaanxi-Qinling Mountains Integrated Ecosystem Management Project Final Report Appendix 7 f. In-situ infrastructure i. Road and Mountain Pathway Improvements 309. The project will provide road and mountain path-way improvements for improving access of QBCDA villages and households to markets, jobs and basic services – while limiting access for mass tourism and recreation and thus protecting QBCDA bioresources and fragile eco-systems. 310. The original FS on the QBG dated January 2006 included a major program of QBCDA road construction and improvements, with a total length of about 170 km. and a total capital budget of CNY189 million ($24.9 million). The proposed road building program included 88.45 km of main roads plus three smaller additional roads (1.5 m wide), which were not described in the FS. 311. Road access was planned to improve the central spine road running through the QBG Zone A site from Tianyukou (site entrance) to Jinniuping. The reconstruction of the existing core road which runs down the central valley would have widened this road to 6.5 m from the current width of about 2- 33 m. This reconstruction would have necessitated major earthworks. The construction of major QBCDA roads was justified in part by the proposed investment in an QBCDA cableway, which has since been dropped from the investment program because of its negative biodiversity and other environmental and social impacts. 312. The QBG revised its road construction proposals to include improvements to the central valley road from Tianyuku to Jinniuping, and improvements to mountain paths. The canyon road covers a total length of 17.5 km at a total cost of CNY27.9 million, while the mountain path improvements would involve a total length of 109 km at a total cost of CNY21.9 million. The seven mountain paths would have the following routes: Jinniuping – Shouyangshan – 13.2 km; Jinniuping – Dongniandao – 15.5 km; Jinniuping – Yeniuhe – 20.0 km; Xiagukou – Shangyangpo – 11.0; Tielucha – Liangding – 14.2 km; Guanyinyan – Laojigou – 17.0 km; and Liziping – Yeyanghe – 18.5 km. This total road building budget, including recurrent costs for maintenance during the implementation period, therefore is CNY58.3 million ($7.7 million), covering a total length of 127 km. When the QBG provided its information to the PPTA Team in March 2007, the QBG Team stressed that the canyon road would follow the current route, would have its current length and width, and thus would involve minimal earthwork and related construction and environmental effects. However, the capital cost for this road was the same in March 2007 submission as in the January 2006 FS and was reduced by the PPTA in the final costing however there remain questions as to the rationale for the road investment given the relocation of the Panda Breeding center out of the QBCDA during Loan Fact Finding. The design, cost and potential environmental impacts of this road need to be fully reviewed and if the proposed cost is correct the road program will require a full EIA moving the Project to Environmental Category A. 313. The design, location and costs of the proposed mountain path improvements need to be reviewed with reference to the final QBCDA strategy as well as the village development planning to be conducted. The VDP will define the need and demand for pathway improvements which will be available for all villages in the QBCDA area. The road contracts will be awarded by the Shaanxi Qinling Biodiversity Promotions Ltd and will be funded from loan funds. 314. The Project proposal is currently for a road improvement program totaling CNY 34 million. a. Social Infrastructure 315. Social infrastructure for residents in the QBCDA zone in terms of water supplies and alternative energy – biogas grants would provide a significant benefit to the poorest households in the Project Area and reduce their demand for firewood. The extent of social infrastructure demanded will be identified during the VDP process and once a plan is completed the village can apply for an infrastructure grant from the Louguantai Forest Farm division in the QNBG through the PMO. The Project is budgeting CNY12.4 million for these grants. 316. The QBCDA community have very little infrastructure and field work indicated that essential infrastructure would provide a significant benefit to households and especially to women and children. Apart from access infrastructure the most requested types of infrastructure were (i) energy supplies and (ii) water supplies. The Project will identify these needs through the Village Development Planning program above. Once plans are complete villages may apply to the PMO through the proposed new
TA 4721-PRC: Preparing the Shaanxi-Qinling Mountains Integrated Ecosystem Management Project Final Report Appendix 7 institution to obtain infrastructure grants. The PMO will ensure that relevant authorities in Zhouzhi approve the designs and planned inputs –no costs are recommended for the County Administration for this approval. The cost per village is budgeted at CNY500,000 for energy and CNY500,000 for water supplies. 2. Demonstration of Conservation of Biodiversity a. LFF Habitat Improvement Program 317. State Forest Land vested in Louguantai Forest Farm represents eighty percent of the forest area in the Project Area. Since the introduction of the ‘logging ban’ large sections of the ‘cut areas’ have been either replanted or subject to ‘forest closure’ with variable results. Each year a ‘plan of operations’ is provided to the forest farm by the Provincial Forest Planning and Design institute in Xi’an. The plan details the land to be planted only and there is no agreed long term management program. As such the approach seeks forest coverage improvement and has little or no impact on the forest quality attributes necessary to support conservation, ecological or habitat objectives Consequently there are no long-term management plans and actions to reconstruct the forest structure through continuous management and interventions are neither planned nor implemented. 318. Since the introduction of the ‘logging ban’ there has been a complete moratorium on felling of trees. For example, in other areas of the Qinling, the WWF are endeavoring to reconstruct bamboo forest under the dense canopy of plantation larch species. The limitations imposed by the ‘logging ban’ seriously undermine conservation forestry activities and WWF is limited to silviculture pruning but not extraction. Similar limitations will exist regarding the introduction of forest conservation schemes to the QBCDA area, therefore, a prerequisite of implementing the Project is approval that the “no felling” restriction be either lifter or put aside for the Project Area. The SPG has confirmed that these restrictions will not apply. 319. The Project will provide the Louguantai Forest Farm Division with support to complete a Forest Management Master Plan, a plan which focuses on forest restoration and biodiversity management in the QBCDA area will be developed during the first year of the program. The plan will also address possible current and future tourism opportunities issues relating to activities based on the future ecolodge development and control of activities undertaken by the existing ‘resorts’ already present in the periphery of the area. 320. The plan will provide a detailed work program for the first five years and the outline work program for the years six to twenty. A total of six supporting ecological research grants will be financed along with Technical assistance for conservation and restorative forestry. The Project will provide funds for planning CNY70,000, and CNY2900 per ha for 2,000 ha of forest and habitat restoration programs. Labor for these programs will be supplied by Louguantai Forest Farm Division staff and local residents only. 321. Forest restoration activities will be centered on the adoption of silvicultural systems which are based on continuous cover systems. These enable a forest of mixed age classes to be developed and favor development of a balanced forest structure which closely resembles the original natural structure. Where required, additional planting can supplement natural regeneration. A number of systems are available which can be adapted and tried. The Project will support the Louguantai Forest Farm Division to grow and plant seedlings. Seedlings are budgeted at CNY8 and a total of 1,200 seedlings per ha 2.4 million are budgeted. Louguantai Forest Farm will contract local residents to develop community nurseries. 322. Training will be undertaken with the Forest Farm staff, Zhouzhi County Forestry Bureau and Shaanxi Forestry Bureau. The training program will be ongoing and will be undertaken in conjunction with both the development of the Forest Management Plan and its implementation. The training will provide foresters with an understanding of natural forest reconstruction and its links both to nature conservation and livelihood development. One objective is to change attitudes from the current “no interventions and policing” as a means of forest conservation towards a more holistic approach to conservation based on setting objectives and developing management interventions to achieve them. 323. The monitoring program will examine the impacts of the forest restoration process on forest eco-systems over a long time scale. Monitoring plots will be established both in the existing ‘old 55
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