Transcript Terrestrial Protected Area and Livelihoods

Terrestrial Protected Area and
Livelihoods
Approach
• Integrate climate change considerations into the
identification of priority areas for conservation
• Define spatially the areas where livelihoods may
be most impacted by climate change
• Combine the two maps to identify areas of:
– conflict
– areas where maintaining ecological services is the
most important for livelihoods
Terrestrial Biodiversity &
Livelihoods
Biodiversity Group
• Goal: Synthesis of
prioritization of
Humid, Northern,
Spiny and Deciduous
regions
Livelihoods Group
• Goal: Identify in
space the areas
where climate change
impacts on human
well-being will be
most severe.
Biodiversity
group:Mapping
priority areas for
conservation
Discussions by “habitats”:
•Deciduous forest
•Spiny forest
•Rainforest
•North
Priorities identified based on
vulnerability and potential
refuge area
Results
• All forests are important and further
deforestation or degradation will reduce
environmental resilience to climate
change, negatively impacting biodiversity
and ecosystem function on which people
depend
Livelihoods group
• Identification of
where climate
change impacts
on human
livelihoods occur
• Areas of conflict
• Opportunities to
mitigate biodiversity
and livelihood impacts
simultaneously
Results/Recommendations
• Continued deforestation and degradation will greatly exacerbate the
impacts of climate change and will amplify its expected
consequences. Everything possible should be done to prevent all
further forest loss.
• Some priority areas for building resiliency of the protected area
system were already identified during this workshop, but more
sophisticated analyses will also be needed.
• Plans for the protected area system also need to integrate
environmental functions that are provided by protected areas. New
protected areas should be established specifically to maintain
environmental functions in areas where human livelihoods are the
most vulnerable to climate change.
• The government should embrace ecological restoration
as another important way to contribute to environmental
resilience and biodiversity conservation in the face of
climate change, and to provide a valuable source of
wood and other important natural products.
• Emerging carbon markets should be seen as a major
development opportunity for Madagascar.
– REDD
– Clean Development Mechanism of Kyoto Protocol
• In order to ensure the long-term viability of these
adaptation and financing strategies, the Government
should ensure that resources from carbon markets flow
to local communities so as to provide human livelihood
benefits.