Ngoc Linh – Xe Sap Biodiversity Conservation Corridors

ACHIEVEMENTS
OF PROJECT
Ngoc Linh
– Xe Sap Biodiversity
Conservation
Corridors
“Ngoc Linh – Xe Sap
Biodiversity Conservation
Corridors”
Implemented from 2006 to 2010
(BCI phase I)
Huỳnh Tiến Dũng – WWF Vietnam Conservation Programme Manager
(Former BCI Project Manager)
Biodiversity Conservation
Corridors
Quang Tri
Hue
Da Nang
Hoi An
(UNESCO site)
Corridors 3D map
Quang Nam
PROJECT CONTEXT
• Greater Mekong Sub-Region
(GMS) countries including:
Cambodia, China (Yunnan and
Guangxi), Laos, Myanmar,
Thailand and Vietnam would like to
improve regional economic
cooperation.
• Economic Corridors connecting
GMS countries were suggested
since 2011 to promote regional
cooperation in transport, energy,
telecommunications and trade in
the sub-region.
Core Environmnetal Programme adopted
at Second GMS Summit organized in China in 2005
- Core Environmental Programme (CEP): initiated at a meeting of GMS Working
Group on Environment in Sept 2004 in Hanoi, Vietnam.
- CEP adopted by GMS countries at Second GMS Summit organized in China 2005.
- CEP with 5 components(including BCI) approved by Vietnam Government in Sept
2006
Core Environmental Programe
(CEP) and its components
• Component 1. Environmental Assessments of Economic Corridors and
Sector Strategies
• Component 2. Biodiversity Conservation Corridors Initiative (BCI)
• Component 3. Environmental Performance Assessment and Sustainable
Development Planning
• Component 4. Capacity Building for Sustainable Environmental
Management
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• Component 5. Program Development, Delivery, and Sustainable
Financing
CEP coordinated by the Environment Operations Center (EOC), ADB
Economic Corridors and BCI pilot sites
Project Implementation
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BCI is regional project including Cambodia, China, Laos, Thailand and
Vietnam.
Regional level: coordinated and technical assistance by EOC/ADB
National level: coordinated by MONRE.
Provincial level: coordinated and implemented by Provincial Implemention
Unit (PPIU).
WWF Vietnam: technical assistance and financial management in
Vietnam.
Project has 05 components:
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Poverty alleviation through sustainable use of natural resources and
development of livelihoods
Harmonized land management and government regimes
Restoring Ecosystem Connectivity
Capacity Building
Sustainable financing of the biodiversity corridor interventions.
BCI phase implementation time and budget
Time:
• BCI phase started in Vietnam in Nov 2006 and completed
Oct 2010.
Budget:
• The planned budget: 5 million USD
• Actual budget received: 1,8 million USD
BCI project sites in
Vietnam
Quang Tri
province
• 2 districts
(21communes)
Quang Nam
province
• 7 districts (50
communes)
Achievements from BCI Phase I
Implementation
A. Policy outcome
• Biodiversity Law 2008
• Draft Gov Decree on Biodiversity Corridor
• Draft Gov Decree on Benefit Sharing Mechanism Benefit Sharing
Mechanisms for People Adversely Affected by Hydropower Projects in
Viet Namot testing (piloted in Avuong Dam, Quang Nam)
• At least 7 hydropower plant proposals and 01 mining activity were
stopped in the project area (corridors) by the end of the project (much
more now).
• 02 Saola protected areas established in Quang Nam and Thua Thien
Hue.
• 01 elephant protected area established in Que Son (Quang Nam)
• CDF Operation Regulation developed and applied.
B. Capacity and sustainable financing
Capacity building:
• Training need assessment conducted and various training
provided: 80 training courses conducted and about 1300 people
benefited.
• Training subjects: Forest site mapping and planting, biodiversity
survey, conservation education training, land use planning and land
allocation, GIS, community facilitation skills, nursery management,
camera trapping, nature crime investigation, law enforcement,
market assessment and value chain, species survey techniques,
CDF training, livelihood models, exchange visits and study tours to
other countries, etc.
• Awareness raising: A variety of awareness raising activities on
biodiversity conservation undertaken such as education campaigns,
environmental education network, school contests, posters, leaflets,
etc.
B. Sustainable financing
• Study the potential of “Harnessing Carbon Finance for the
Biodiversity Corridors of the Central Annamites”.
• Pilot testing of Benefit Sharing Mechanism for A Vuong Hydropower
plant in Quang Nam (Draft Gov Decree made).
• 20 CDF operated.
• Central Annamites became WWF priority landscapes in 2011. More
investment from WWF and a number of follow up projects granted
(for example: CARBI)
• More investment from government (for example: BCC phase II).
C. Community mobilization
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20 CDF established and operated.
Community protected area
43 village patrol groups established
11 community nursery established.
36 villages signed common agreements for non-hunting areas.
572 ha forested planted and managed by households (livelihood forest
planting).
• Establishment of mechanisms for legal harvesting by communities.
• Protected area boundary demarcation by communities.
D. Poverty reduction and reduced
dependency on ecosystem services
• A lot of local people benefited from the project (improved
access to finance, market linkages, alternative livelihoods
options, improved social infrastructure, etc.).
• Generation of employment opportunities through
conservation works (village nursery, check dams, village
patrolling, forest plantation, PA boundary demarcation,
etc.)
E. Land use planning
and improved land use rights
• Participatory land-use planning piloted for 3 communes in Quang Tri.
• Forest land tenure certificates for more than 500 households involved
in forest planting.
• District and commune forest protection and management plans
F. Reduction of ecosystem fragmentation and
improved ecosystem services
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The 6 corridors identified with the total area of 130.000 ha in 3
provinces.
60% of critical areas for connecting fragmented PA identified and
restoration undertaken.
Forest restoration, enrichment and natural generation by communities:
(653 ha planted).
Law enforcement activities: snare and trap removal (5898 traps and
snares), violators’ camps destroying (147), bush fence clearance
(33.000 m), confiscation of 100 m3 of timber, handling and care of
confiscated wildlife, release of captured wild animals.
Satellite images in the year 2006, 2007 and 2008 show that habitat
status quo in corridor is maintained and forest cover is increased.
Research and study: land cover mapping; database design,
biodiversity surveys, biological assessment and monitoring – camera
trapping, flagship species, amphibian and plant surveys, etc.
Saola re-discovered recently after 15 years.
Critical issues from BCI phase I
to be followed up
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Lack of legal ground for the corridors establishment.
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Follow up the Commune Development Funds established
under BCI phase I