scholarly journals Vegetation Condition of Community-Managed Forests in Aik Bual Village and Setiling Village, Lombok Island

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 218
Author(s):  
Muhamad Husni Idris ◽  
Sitti Latifah ◽  
Budhy Setiawan
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Land Tenure ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Diversity Index ◽  
Managed Forests ◽  
Community Forest ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Vegetation Diversity ◽  
Durio Zibethinus ◽  
D 20

Community-based forest management practices vary according to biophysical and management factors. This study aimed to explain the vegetation conditions of community-based forest management in Aik Bual and Setiling village, Lombok Tengah. The study site was divided into protected forest areas (HL) in Aik Bual Village with a legal community forest permit (Aik Bual-HKm), HL in Setiling Village with no legal community forest permit (Setiling-Non Permit), and HL in Aik Bual Village with no legal community forest permit (Aik Bual-Non Permit). Field measurement was conducted in July 2018 by establishing 12 plots of 20 m x 20 m. Each plot consisted of subplots of 10 m x 10 m, 5 m x 5 m, and 2 m x 2 m to collect data of woody and non-woody plants with the criteria of diameter (D) as follows: D ≥ 20 cm, 10 cm ≤ D < 20 cm, 2 cm ≤ D <10 cm, and D < 2 cm with tree height of < 1,5 m, respectively. The results showed that Aik Bual-HKm, Setiling-Non Permit and Aik Bual-Non Permit had 24, 13 and 22 species, respectively. Dominant species of vegetation at D ≥ 20 cm were Erythrina variegata and Swietenia macrophylla, at 10 cm ≤ D < 20 cm were Musa paradisiaca and Durio zibethinus, at 2 cm ≤ D < 10 cm was Coffea canephora, and at D < 2 cm were C. canephora and S. macrophylla. Vegetation diversity index (H') of plants at D ≥ 2 cm in Aik Bual-HKm was slightly higher (H'=1,78) than that in Setiling-Non Permit (H’=1,04) and Aik Bual-Non Permit (H’=1,15), although these are classified as moderate. The results illustrated the possible differences of vegetation diversity in community-managed forests with and without legal permission.Keywords: agroforestry, land tenure, protected forest, vegetation analysis

scholarly journals Pelaksanaan Pengelolaan Hutan Kemasyarakatan (HKM) di Desa Bukit Indah, Bulukumba: Batasan dan Kemungkinan

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 194
Author(s):  
Tasmin Tangngareng ◽  
Muhammad Ridha
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Land Tenure ◽  
Management Program ◽  
The Other ◽  
Forest Land ◽  
Community Forest ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Tenure Security ◽  
Community Forests ◽  
Case Research

Abstract : This paper describes the policy of the implementation of Community-Based Forest Management program (CBFM) in Bulukumba district. CBFM Program consists of policies regarding Forest Villages, Community Forests and Community Plantation Forests. In these schemes, CBFM concept is applied in different region and different case. Research location for this paper is in Bulukumba, the location of the implementation of Community Forest to some Forest Farmers Group. The results found that CBFM scheme, which is the process of power transfer, devolution of forest resources to local users, has its own limitations and possibilities. The program was running well within the context of improvement of tenure security of forest communities, but on the other hand, this scheme does not have the authority to reform the structure of forest land tenure that has already crippled and been confirmed by this CBFM scheme. Keywords : Community Base Forest Management, Comunity Forest, DevolutionIntisari : Tulisan ini ingin menggambarkan kebijakan pelaksanaan program Community Base Forest Manajement (CBFM) dalam pengelolaan hutan di kabupaten Bulukumba. Program CBFM ini terdiri dari kebijakan mengenai Hutan desa, Hutan Kemasyarakatan dan Hutan Tanaman Rakyat. Dalam skema-skema inilah konsep CBFM ini diaplikasikan di masing-masing wilayah dan case yang berbeda-beda. Lokasi penelitian untuk tulisan ini dilakukan di Kabupaten Bulukumba, lokasi penerapan Hutan Kemasyarakatan kepada beberapa Kelompok Tani Hutan. Hasil penelusuran yang dilakukan menemukan bahwa skema CBFM, yang merupakan proses transfer kekuasaan, devolusi sumberdaya hutan kepada pengguna lokal, memiliki keterbatasan dan kemungkinannya sendiri. Program ini baik dalam konteks perbaikan tenurial security masyarakat pengelola hutan, tetapi disisi yang lain skema ini tidak memiliki kewenangan untuk melakukan perombakan struktur penguasaan lahan hutan yang sudah timpang dan dikukuhkan oleh skema CBFM ini. Kata Kunci : Community Base Forest Management, Hutan Kemasyarakatan, Devolusi

Planning a system of permanent sample plots for integrated long-term studies of community-based forest management

1970 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 3-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
H Meilby ◽  
L Puri ◽  
M Christensen ◽  
S Rayamajhi
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Research Note ◽  
Managed Forests ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Permanent Sample Plots ◽  
Long Term Studies

To monitor the development of four community-managed forests, networks of permanent sample plots were established in 2005 at sites in Chitwan, Kaski and Mustang Districts, Nepal. This research note documents the procedures used when preparing for establishment of the plot networks, evaluates the applied stratification of the forest on the basis of data gathered in pilot surveys conducted in the early 2005, and provides a discussion on the implications of the choices made. Key words: Community-managed forests; permanent sample plots; stratification; allocation; estimates Banko Janakari Vol.16(2) 2006 pp.3-11

scholarly journals Participatory assessment of biodiversity conservation in community forestry in Nepal

1970 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
K.P. Acharya ◽  
K.R. Goutam ◽  
B.K. Acharya ◽  
G. Gautam
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Biodiversity Conservation ◽  
Community Forestry ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Rural Livelihoods ◽  
Community Forest Management ◽  
Managed Forests ◽  
Community Forest ◽  
Participatory Assessment ◽  
Community Forest User Groups

The Community Forestry has been the most effective means of managing common forest resources in Nepal. Besides rehabilitating degraded hills, improving environment and contributing to the rural livelihoods, community forestry is claimed to be a major means of biodiversity conservation. It is also argued that the prevalent approach of community forest management threats to the conservation of biodiversity. This paper is based on the findings from two community forest user groups from Central Nepal and argues that the users’ innovative practices of active forest management favor biodiversity conservation. The study has documented users’ innovations to conserve biodiversity in community managed forests. Key words: Nepal, community forestry, biodiversity conservation and livelihoods Banko Janakari Vol.16(1) 2006 pp46-56

scholarly journals REDD+ and Community Forestry in Nepal: Strengthening or Paralysing Decentralised Governance?

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dil Khatri ◽  
Gyanu Maskey ◽  
Bikash Adhikari
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Community Forestry ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Forest Governance ◽  
Community Forest Management ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Community Forest ◽  
Forestry Policy

At a time when community forestry has become a prominent mode of forest governance in many developing countries, REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest degradation) has emerged as a new conservation policy to contribute to climate change mitigation by incentivising such countries to conserve forest. While the proponents of REDD+ claim that it can help to strengthen decentralised forest governance through an increased flow of resources of fund and knowledge, the critics evince that there are negative consequences of REDD+ implementation to the decentralisation process, local control, and access to forests. Drawing on the ongoing engagement of the authors in the national REDD+ policy process and an ethnographic study of the REDD+ initiatives in Nepal, this paper demonstrates that REDD+ might paralyze Nepal’s long-standing community forestry policy rather than strengthening it. Findings show the instrumental use of participation in REDD+ policy development and limited representation of local voices in the policy processes. The piloting project implemented on community forestry suggest that REDD+, if implemented at full scale, can put new demand(s) to the long-standing community forestry policy and practices resulting in threatening of local uses of forests by smallholders. The implementation of REDD+ is likely to reshape community forest management practices driven from the priority of generating revenue which in turn undermines the need to manage forests to meet diverse needs of the smallholders. This analysis indicates the need for paying greater attention to represent local voices in developing national policies and programs, and align REDD+ objectives to the core principles of community forest management, local access, and control of forests.

scholarly journals Community Forest Management in Nigeria: A Case of Local Empowerment and Environmental Management Project (Leemp) In Adamawa State

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-54
Author(s):  
Aminu Liman ◽  
Ibrahim Ngah
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Forest Resources ◽  
Natural Resources Management ◽  
Community Forest Management ◽  
Community Forest ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Resources Management ◽  
Management Project

Deforestation continuous to be a wide spread problem in rural areas of developing countries. Conventional “top down” approach has proved fundamentally limited in their ability to promote the culture of forest conservation in the world over. Inco-prorating the community based forest and community based natural resources management in rural development strategies seems to be the best approach to conserve forest area. This paper provides a case of community forest management by rural communities in rural areas of Nigeria. Based on the experience of the Local Empowerment and Environmental Management Project (LEEMP) in Adamawa State of Nigeria, this paper discussed the achievement and challenges in implementing community based forest management in the rural areas. Information used in this paper is based a preliminary study in evolving interviews with officials of the implementation agencies of LEEMP and a few participants of the projects in Adamawa state. Under LEEMP the priorities include the empowerment of local people to manage the community based forest and community based natural resources conservation in their areas. The project aim for the effective management of renewable forest resources, (vegetation), minimizing depletion of non-renewable forest resources (wild life), minimise forest pollution and its attendants negative impacts.(bush burning), as well as to decentralize the responsibity for managing forest resources. This study found that LEEMP helps to bring grass root citizen contribution to the objectives of sustainable natural resources management and community wellbeing collectively. There exist a strong link between the rural poverty and the deforestation and forest management through community empowerment did show some improvement both to the resource conservation and improvement to the livelihood of the communities. However there were many challenges encounter in the process implementationinclude non-inclusive of stake holders because of social class or due to political affiliation, while projects are not evenly distributed among communities of serious need, others are un involve and ill-informed in terms of decision and actions, and lack of conservation culture, among communities. This paper implies that effective incorporation of forest management in rural development strategies should focus more attention to collective action, which ties the community on values, cultures, and economics benefits into the ecological project, with balancing the aim of sustaining the environment and poverty alleviation.

Institutional choice and local legitimacy in community-based forest management: lessons from Cameroon

2010 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 261-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. CAROLYN PEACH BROWN ◽  
JAMES P. LASSOIE
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Community Forest Management ◽  
Community Forest ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Forest Zone ◽  
Humid Forest ◽  
Community Forests ◽  
Humid Forest Zone ◽  
The Village

SUMMARYDecentralization of forest management has become a common policy globally which has allowed communities to regain rights removed through colonization and central state management of forests. However, socioeconomic and environmental outcomes of such community-based forest management schemes have been mixed. Studies have shown the importance of institutions in influencing the success of these new governance arrangements. Based on an extensive literature review supplemented by qualitative research, using focus groups and semi-structured interviews, conducted in nine villages in the humid forest zone comprising three community forests, this research investigated the successes and challenges from decentralization of forest management in Cameroon. A key constraint on success was the inappropriate institutional structure at the local level with responsibility to manage community forests. Community forest management committees with no internally recognized legitimacy and dominated by local elites had replaced roles once played by traditional authorities. Qualitative research showed that in the humid forest zone of Cameroon, the system of accountability for forest resources, prior to the enactment of community forest legislation, included those with historical traditional cultural authority, in the form of clan or lineage heads, as well as the village chief, a legacy of colonial power. Village chiefs or other members of the village council are also selected on the basis of their good moral character. Community forest management committees that are a hybrid of customary authorities and other representatives of the population chosen following the criteria for local legitimacy may capture the best of historical social regulation and build on it so that the local committee may be seen as being accountable to the local population. Since such hybrid institutions are not without their risks, it is important that these institutions be accountable to a local democratic government to further increase their transparency and accountability. Models of community-based natural resource management that incorporate culturally appropriate requirements of legitimacy and accountability in crafting local institutions may have more success in accomplishing both socioeconomic and environmental goals.

Summer Bat Habitat Use and Forest Characteristics in Managed Northeastern Forests

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan E Gallagher ◽  
Shannon L Farrell ◽  
René H Germain ◽  
Vanessa G Rojas
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Habitat Use ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Canopy Cover ◽  
Managed Forests ◽  
Forest Management Practices ◽  
Management Actions ◽  
Mature Stands ◽  
Forest Managers

Abstract There has been limited research investigating summer habitat use of bats in managed forests in the northeastern United States. Consequently, there is limited knowledge to inform forest managers seeking to maintain or enhance bat habitat, particularly for several federally threatened, endangered, or candidate species. In summer 2017–2018, we conducted repeated acoustic surveys to determine what forest characteristics are associated with bat habitat use in managed forests in the Adirondack region of upstate New York. We modeled detection corrected probability of occupancy for bats in three phonic groups: high, mid, and low frequency. Across all phonic groups, probability of occupancy increased with decreasing canopy cover. High-, mid-, and low-frequency bats were more likely to use recently harvested sites (&lt;10 years since harvest). High-frequency bats also used mature stands. Midfrequency bats demonstrated a preference for further distances from forest roads, whereas low-frequency bats preferred areas with a higher percentage of clutter. Our results suggest that tending and regenerating even-aged forest management practices can provide habitat for foraging bats in the Adirondacks. Study Implications: Several northeastern bat species have been granted or are candidates for federal endangered or threatened status; therefore, forest managers may increasingly need to consider how forest management actions affect bats. This research elucidates the effects of forest management practices on summer bat habitat use in northeastern forests. Foresters can use this information to limit negative impacts to bat habitat from management actions and identify management opportunities that protect or enhance bat habitat. All bat species we studied showed higher probability of use in stands with lower percent canopy cover, including stands recently harvested with the shelterwood method. However, special attention is owed to postharvest management to maintain suitable conditions, particularly concerning American beech. It is common in northeastern forests for beech to sprout root suckers following harvesting activities that can result in dense thickets, impeding bat flight abilities and limiting habitat connectivity for bats and other wildlife. Our findings also show that several bat species forage in mature stands that have a natural open understory and in areas around or near waterbodies. Consequently, even-aged tending and regeneration techniques in hardwood and mixed-wood forests, coupled with maintenance of nearby aquatic habitats, can provide habitat for bats.

scholarly journals Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Community Forest Management: Evolution and Limitations in Mexican Forest Law, Policy and Practice

Forests ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 403
Author(s):  
José Antonio Sierra-Huelsz ◽  
Patricia Gerez Fernández ◽  
Citlalli López Binnqüist ◽  
Louise Guibrunet ◽  
Edward A. Ellis
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Traditional Ecological Knowledge ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Traditional Practices ◽  
Ecological Knowledge ◽  
Community Forest Management ◽  
Community Forest ◽  
Legal Recognition ◽  
Land Sparing ◽  
Diachronic Analysis

Community forest management (CFM) is often a field of encounter between knowledge systems, where a conventional forestry blueprint is frequently applied in contexts rich in traditional ecological knowledge (TEK). This is the case in Mexico, a bioculturally diverse country and a reference of community forestry. Based on a review of laws, policies, literature, and empirical examples, we explore technical, epistemological, political, and contextual dimensions associated with the inclusion and exclusion of TEK in CFM in Mexico. Our analysis is composed of three steps: (1) A diachronic analysis of how TEK and associated practices have been considered by federal forest laws and codes (1960–2018), (2) a diachronic analysis of the scope of conventional forestry and its evolution in time and space, and (3) situated examples illustrating the inclusion and exclusion of TEK in CFM. We argue that: (1) Legal recognition of TEK as a concept does not necessarily entail the legal recognition of all traditional management practices; (2) the inclusion of TEK in CFM is heterogeneous across communities, ecosystems, regions, products and historical trajectories; and (3) different traditional practices are not equally integrated in CFM: traditional practices that contradict the spatial segregation of activities (i.e., land sparing) favored by conventional forestry tend to be less easily accepted or ignored by government institutions.

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