Achieving no net loss of biodiversity conservation in multiple-use forest landscapes: a 21st century challenge

Sinajin Jeflus S., . and Lee Ka Han, . and Siti Zubaidah Abdullah, . (2015) Achieving no net loss of biodiversity conservation in multiple-use forest landscapes: a 21st century challenge. [Proceedings Paper]

Multiple-use forest management is envisioned by many as a preferable alternative to timber-dominant management models and satisfies the demands from multiple stakeholders. At the outset this approach appears to be relatively simple to implement with no net loss of biodiversity. However conserving forest biodiversity with no net loss at the landscape level alongside economic development is a defining challenge of the 21st century especially when the current condition of the forest is generally highly degraded coupled with changes to land-use from its original form. One such example is the Government of Malaysia-United Nations Development Programme-Global Environment Facility GoM-UNDP-GEF Multiple-use Forest Landscapes Project which is located at Yayasan Sabahs Sustainable Forest Management Licence Agreement area. The project serves as a model to catalyze innovation in processes and increases management know-how in achieving an optimal balance across potentially competing uses. The paper begins with a short background of the project and then highlights the projects objectives outcomes and overall outputs. However during the project planning and conception there were a series of land-use changes in the project landscape as a result of decisions taken by the state government which consequently have raised various opinions among many stakeholders including the UNDP. These emerging issues: land-use changes concerns and implications of biodiversity in the project landscape are discussed in this paper. The paper then discusses the future of biodiversity in the project landscape that is whether the no net loss of biodiversity can be attained and recommends immediate actions to be implemented to reduce biodiversity impacts. Lastly the paper looks at some challenges of achieving no net loss of biodiversity and beyond.

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Abstract

Multiple-use forest management is envisioned by many as a preferable alternative to timber-dominant management models and satisfies the demands from multiple stakeholders. At the outset this approach appears to be relatively simple to implement with no net loss of biodiversity. However conserving forest biodiversity with no net loss at the landscape level alongside economic development is a defining challenge of the 21st century especially when the current condition of the forest is generally highly degraded coupled with changes to land-use from its original form. One such example is the Government of Malaysia-United Nations Development Programme-Global Environment Facility GoM-UNDP-GEF Multiple-use Forest Landscapes Project which is located at Yayasan Sabahs Sustainable Forest Management Licence Agreement area. The project serves as a model to catalyze innovation in processes and increases management know-how in achieving an optimal balance across potentially competing uses. The paper begins with a short background of the project and then highlights the projects objectives outcomes and overall outputs. However during the project planning and conception there were a series of land-use changes in the project landscape as a result of decisions taken by the state government which consequently have raised various opinions among many stakeholders including the UNDP. These emerging issues: land-use changes concerns and implications of biodiversity in the project landscape are discussed in this paper. The paper then discusses the future of biodiversity in the project landscape that is whether the no net loss of biodiversity can be attained and recommends immediate actions to be implemented to reduce biodiversity impacts. Lastly the paper looks at some challenges of achieving no net loss of biodiversity and beyond.

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Item Type:	Proceedings Paper
AGROVOC Term:	Forests
AGROVOC Term:	Forest management
AGROVOC Term:	Biodiversity
AGROVOC Term:	Multiple use forestry
AGROVOC Term:	Forest resources
AGROVOC Term:	Innovation
AGROVOC Term:	Protected areas
AGROVOC Term:	Land cover
AGROVOC Term:	Landscape conservation
AGROVOC Term:	Biological diversity conservation
Geographical Term:	MALAYSIA
Depositing User:	Ms. Suzila Mohamad Kasim
Last Modified:	24 Apr 2025 05:16
URI:	http://webagris.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/13732

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