HCV Assessments & Projects

This page contains links to published HCV assessments and HCV-related projects.

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Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay

A Biodiversity Vision for the Upper Paraná Atlantic Forest Ecoregion: Designing a Bidiversity Conservation Landscape and Setting Priorities for Consevation Action, DI BITETTI, M.S; PLACCI, G; and DIETZ, L.A. 2003. WASHINGTON, D.C., WORLD WILDLIFE FUND

Argentina

Use of the HCV approach in a case study region in Santiago del Estero, Northern Argentina, in the context of agricultural expansion and local community land use planning.

Brazil

High Conservation Value Area (HCVA) Assessment report of Fazenda Muno Novo, Roraima, Brazil: Projeto Puma's Environmental Management Program, November 2009 (English translation); click here to see the original report in Portuguese.

Responsible Cultivation Areas: - Pilot Tests in Brazil: Executive Summary and Introduction Conservation International May 2010

Identification of Responsible Cultivation Areas in Pará, Brazil: Pilot Test Focusing on Oil Palm, Conservation International May 2010

Identification of Responsible Cultivation Areas in São Paulo, Brazil: Pilot Test Focusing on Sugarcane and Cattle Integration, Conservation International May 2010

 

Cambodia

Biodiversity Assessment of the REDD Community Forest Project in Oddar Meanchey Cambodia, 2011: Pact, Inc., Birdlife International and the Cambodian Forestry Administrationanuary 2011; Biodiversity assessment of 13 community forests in Oddar Meanchey Province which explored portions of community forests in Oddar Meanchey, which, collectively, make up the Oddar Meanchey Community Forestry REDD+ Project.  The purpose of the biodiversity assessment was to provide biodiversity baseline data for CCBA’s validation; identify species and habitats of High Conservation Value for prioritization in future conservation efforts; and to design a biodiversity monitoring plan for the REDD+ site for the lifespan of the 30-year REDD+ project.

 

Cameroon

 

Management plans for two community forests in Cameroon, developed within the framework of GEF‐FSC‐CIFOR project implementation, using the "Toolkit of HCV Process for Small and Low Intensity Managed Forest in Cameroon", June 2008. 

Note: The process of monitoring identified HCVs is still being developed (in close collaboration with the local communities).

Canada

  • High Conservation Value Forest in the Mistik FMA Area: An assessment of forest values and their conservation in the Mistik FMA area from a global, national, and regional perspective based on the Forest Stewardship Council’s Principle 9, Version 1.4 2009 June 1, Tom Clark & Riki Burkhardt

  • High Conservation Value Forest in the Nipissing Forest SFL: An assessment of forest values and their conservation in the Nipissing SFL from a global, regional and local perspective based on the Forest Stewardship Council’s Principle 9: August 2007, Tom Clark & Riki Burkhardt, Version 2.0

  • High Conservation Values in the Sudbury Forest: Assessment, management and monitoring of forest conservation in the Sudbury Forest from a global, regional and local perspective based on the Forest Stewardship Council’s Principle 9: Tom Clark, M.Sc. CMC Ecological Consulting & Kandyd Szuba, Ph.D., R.P.F. Domtar Inc., Version 2.1, August, 2007

  • High Conservation Value Forest in the French Severn SFL: An assessment of forest values and their conservation in the French Severn SFL from a global, regional and local perspective based on the Forest Stewardship Council’s Principle 9: Edited October 25, 2006, Tom Clark: Version 1.3 

China

HCVF reports of 3 forest management units in the Northeast of China (in Chinese language):

 

Europe

India

Prioritising areas for Forest Conservation in the Konkan region of the Western Ghats hotspot (India) – a pilot study Final report from a pilot project in the N. Western Ghats, using both IPA (important plant areas) and HCV criteria for prioritising sites for forest conservation, 2007: Sameer Punde, Applied Environmental Research Foundation (AERF)

Indonesia

Kalimantan 

FFI's  implementation of a multistakeholder initiative in West Kalimantan, Indonesia aims to mobilize supports from local government agencies, palm oil and forestry companies, NGOs and local communities to identify and Assess High Conservation Value Forest at concessions and landscape level. FFI has been conducting landscape based HCVF assessment since 2007 in Kapuas Hulu and Ketapang Districts, West Kalimantan. The result of these assessments are utilized to support the revision of spatial planning. FFI is actively engaging in the revision of spatial planning and provides capacity building for the local government. FFI engages with the private sector within critical landscapes of Ketapang and Kayong Utara Districts. These critical landscape consist of  Orangutan habitat corridor connecting Gunung Palung National Park with the southern and northern peat swamp forest. This corridor is overlapped with parts of two palm oil concessions. In order to develop further financial incentives for conservation of HCVFs in these landscape, FFI is now developing REDD+ Demonstration Activities in concessions and community forest. Providing lessons learned from the initiative, FFI has presented two posters:  

  1.  Strategic Approaches to protect HCVF   (8-11 November 2010 at RSPO-Roundtable 8 Jakarta)
  2. Protecting High Conservation Value Forest within Palm Oil Concessions and Community Forest through REDD+ (5 Dec 2010 at Forest Day-UNFCCC side event in Cancun Mexico)
 
  • Responsible Cultivation Area (RCA) assessment of West Kalimantan, Indonesia: Phase I; Phase II and Phase III. Pilot study of the RCA methodology carried out by Ecofys and WWF, 2010. RCA aims 'to identify areas and/or production models that can be used for environmentally and socially responsible energy crop production without causing unwanted indirect effects' and includes assessment of: 1. High Conservation Values 2. Carbon stocks 3. Legal Land Status 4. Risk of unwanted displacement effects 5. Agricultural suitability. This 3-part report includes:  Phase I - Preliminary Assessment; Phase II: Desk-based analysis; and Phase III: Field verification.

 

  • High Conservation Value Full Assessment for PT. Perkebunan Anak Negeri Pasaman Oil Palm Estate, Landak District, West Kalimantan, Indonesia, conducted by Daemeter Consulting for Wilmar International Limited. Report initially prepared April 2009, finalised September 2009 subsequent to a HCV Network Technical Panel Peer Review. More details of the review, including the TP Peer Review Report, and responses to this by Daemeter are also available.  

  • Practitioners Guide to managing HCVF in Indonesia - A case study from Kalimantan: A study carried out as a part of the Global Development Alliance project, which involved collaboration between The Nature Conservancy and the World Wide Fund for Nature, to provide clear guidelines for forest managers in active forest management concessions in Kalimantan, to help guide overall forestry management policy, influence specific management practices, and help concessionaries fulfill the criteria necessary to obtain FSC certification.  

  • Ecoregional Assessment of Biological Diversity in East Kalimantan: A major study by The Nature Conservancy (TNC) with assistance from many ecological experts, stakeholders and conservation partners. This report identifies 33 natural areas termed “portfolio sites”, whose protection by means of sound conservation management, should ensure the long-term survival of numerous globally important vulnerable species and representative natural communities in the ecoregional planning area. The assessment evaluated approximately 14 conservation targets including a series of nine ecological system types. Goals for conservation targets were established based upon the relative rarity and distribution of the forest types, the naturally occurring patch sizes of the respective community types and the need to secure multiple examples of the variability of targets.

  • Preliminary High Conservation Value Forest assessment for PT Sumalindo Lestari Jaya unit II: An  assessment carried out by experts from The Nature Conservancy together with concession staff in September 2002, in a forest concession in the upper watershed of the Mahakam river, East Kalimantan province, Indonesia. The area has been identified by The Nature Conservancy as of critical importance to the conservation of lowland dipterocarp forest. The Nature Conservancy views sustainable forest management as the most suitable tool for conserving this area. This work was a collaboration with the concessionaire to help them obtain FSC certification.

Sumatra 

  • HCVF Assessment Report: PT Andalas Merapi Timber, West Sumatra,  Indonesia, March 2009: Final report of an assessment of HCVF conducted in the 27,800 ha PT Andalas Merapi Timber concession in West Sumatra Province, Indonesia. The report was complied by by Forest Carbon, on behalf of Tropical Forest Trust, and is based on an  HCVF assessment conducted by a multi-disciplinary team in 2008, and was subject to an independent peer review using guidance developed by the HCV Resource Network (‘Reviewing High Conservation Value reports’ Version 1)

 

  • A SmartWood HCVF assessment of Siak District FMU: An independent assessment of High Conservation Value Forests (HCVFs) in an industrial timber plantation in Riau Province, Sumatra, Indonesia. The Rainforest Alliance’s SmartWood program conducted an HCVF assessment of Asia Pulp and Paper’s (APP) Siak District, a 47,023 hectare forest management unit (FMU) managed by PT. Arara Abadi (AA), a company related to APP by common shareholding. The assessment team identified 6,872 hectares of natural forest within the FMU that SmartWood classified as High Conservation Value Forest. Full Report / Summary Report 
  • A SmartWood HCVF assessment of Serapung Resort FMU: An independent assessment of High Conservation Value Forests (HCVFs) in an industrial timber plantation in Riau Province, Sumatra, Indonesia. The Rainforest Alliance’s SmartWood program conducted an HCVF assessment of Asia Pulp and Paper’s (APP) Serapung Resort I and Resort II, a 19,495 hectare forest management unit (FMU), managed by PT. Arara Abadi (AA). The assessment team identified 7,144 hectares of natural forest within the FMU that SmartWood classifies as High Conservation Value Forest, subject to a more detailed study of Sumatran tiger populations in and surrounding the FMU. Full Report / Summary Report ; also available is a Tiger HCVF Supplemental Assessment report for Serapung FMU which presents the findings of an independent study conducted to assess the delineation of HCVF relating to the possible presence of Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae), conducted by the Sumatran Tiger Conservation Program (2005) 
  • A SmartWood HCVF assessment of Pulau Muda District FMU: An independent assessment of High Conservation Value Forests (HCVFs) in an industrial timber plantation in Riau Province, Sumatra, Indonesia. The Rainforest Alliance conducted a High Conservation Value Forest (HCVF) assessment of Asia Pulp and Paper’s (APP) 79,754 ha Pulau Muda forest management unit (FMU),  managed by PT Arara Abadi (AA). SmartWood identified HCVF areas covering approximately 34,155 ha  representing 43% of the total concession area. Full report / Summary Report

Further details and technical annexes on these assessments can be found on the Rainforest Alliance website - current location  http://www.rainforest-alliance.org/programs/forestry/smartwood/app.html

Malaysia

Forest Management Plan for Ulu Segama - Malua (USM) in Sabah - folder containing different sections of a Management Plan for the USM Sustainable Forest Management Project Area, 2008, jointly prepared by Sabah Forestry Department, Crest planning Consultants S/B, WWF-Malaysia, Yayasan Sabah and Hutan.

Note: Part 4 "Management Prescriptions" is not yet available.

 

Mozambique

An assessment of potential High Conservation Values within Cabo Delgado Province, Mozambique: Testing the implementation of HCV criteria for biofuels feedstock developments in Southern Africa, Final report of study by ProForest, February 2009, commissioned and supported by German Technical Cooperation organization, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH, and SenterNovem.

Also see HCV assessments for biofuel feedstock applications: Summary of lessons learned, ProForest, February 2009,  for an overall summary report evaluating the process of assessment, the outcomes of the exercise, and implications for future work based on the field studies conducted in Mozambique and Thailand (see below).

 

Paraguay

HCVF in the San Rafael Reserve, 2008: WWF Report of an HCVF landscape analysis pilot in an important and representative site for the conservation of the Upper Paraná Atlantic Forest in Paraguay.

Portugal 

Hotspot Areas for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in Montados, 2010 : Report from WWF Mediterranean Programme on the implementation of the High Conservation Value Forest concept to the evergreen cork oak woodlands of Southern Portugal

Russia

 

Thailand

An assessment of potential High Conservation Values in Northern Krabi Province, Thailand, Final report of study by ProForest, February 2009, commissioned and supported by German Technical Cooperation organization, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH, and SenterNovem. 

Also see HCV assessments for biofuel feedstock applications: Summary of lessons learned, ProForest, February 2009,  for an overall summary report evaluating the process of assessment, the outcomes of the exercise, and implications for future work based on the field studies conducted in Thailand and Mozambique (see above).

 

Vietnam

 

  • Identification, planning and management of forests of high conservation value: final consultancy report. Mahood, S. P., Le Trong Trai, Tran Van Hung and Le Anh Hung (2009): BirdLife International Vietnam Programme, Hanoi, Vietnam. This report details the results of a consultancy to identify, plan and manage forest of high conservation value in six Forest Management Units, namely, Bidoup Nui Ba National Park, Da Nhim Watershed Protection Forest, D'Ran Watershed Protection Forest, Don Duong Forest Company, Lam Vien Landscape Protection Area and Forest Seedling Joint Stock Company of Central Highland Region, located in Lam Dong Province, Vietnam. 

Final reports of preliminary HCVF Assessments conducted in Gia Lai Province by WWF, June 2005

 

 

RSPO New Planting Procedure: Public Summaries of Assessments & Notifications

(last updated June 2011)

 

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