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IUCN projects
to support biodiversity
in forests of Central Europe
Piotr Tyszko, Ph.D.
Project Officer
IUCN Office for Central Europe
IUCN
The World Conservation Union
Vision:
A just world that values and conserves
nature
Mission:
To influence, encourage and assist societies
throughout the world to conserve the
integrity and diversity of nature and ensure
that any use of natural resources is
equitable and ecologically sustainable
Who are we?
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A union of over 980 members
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79 State Members
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112 Government Agencies
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Over 760 NGO members
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6 scientific and expert commissions
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10,000 scientists from 181 countries
What we do?
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Generate and provide biodiversity information
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Build capacity to ensure that “information”
can be employed effectively
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Facilitate stakeholders to identify and
established the right conditions so that
“capacity” can be used effectively
IUCN European Offices
Moscow
PSU & SSC
ELC
Brussels
HQ
Malaga
Warsaw
ARICOLA-FAO
In Central European countries,
there are 3 million new private
forest owners managing over 6
million hectares of forests;
ARICOLA addresses the
negative impacts of forest
privatisation on biodiversity
conservation in 10 CEE project
countries; the project builds on
previous activities of IUCN;
Partnership with FAO’s project
on sustainable private forestry.
ARICOLA
The ARICOLA project will work on:
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Training and awareness raising of private and
communal forest operators to include nature
conservation objectives into forest
management;
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Providing Forest Owner Associations and
State Extension Services with support and
advice on the project’s theme.
Seminars, trainings, education materials.
AFFORESTATION
„Nature Conservation Guidelines for
Afforestation Programmes”
Tadeusz Zając, Ph.D.
and Jacek Ślizowski
Publication preview
IUCN Office for Central
Europe
Environmental
functions
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Goal: healthy, stable and biologically diverse
ecosystems.
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Priority: environmental functions of forests.
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Concentration on deforested regions and
areas of high natural value, which could
benefit from afforestation.
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Species composition adapted to ecological
conditions and anthropogenic pressure.
Biogeography
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Species in their natural range.
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Where possible, use natural regeneration.
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Preserve populations of ecotypes, relict
species and endemics, respect historic
ranges of tree species.
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Restore ecosystems that have lost much of
their original territory, such as riverine and
broadleaved lowland forests.
Space
management
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Connect existing forests and afforested
lands into larger spatial structures.
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The forest ecotone should be graded from
lower plants to higher growing trees and
should be curvilinear.
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Non-forest areas of high natural and
historical value may need to be preserved.
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Afforestation of protected areas should be
regulated by conservation plans.
Space
management
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Landscape and cultural values have to be
preserved.
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Species composition should be diverse and
compatible with habitat types.
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Species of high ecological value should be
given priority.
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A mosaic of spatial and temporal diversity
should be created.
Policy aspects
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Adequate regulatory environment: national
policies on afforestation, rural development
and nature conservation.
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Collection and integration of data on areas
of high natural value and development of
ecological networks.
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Monitoring implementation and results of
afforestation programmes.
Policy aspects
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Public educations campaigns to
awareness and gain public support.
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Working with land and forest owners,
supporting forest owners associations.
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Payments of afforestation subsidies should
depend on compliance with conservation
guidelines.
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Subsidies for maintaining non-forest areas
of high natural value should be higher than
those for afforestation.
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