A Pacific Islands Forest Restoration Network

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A Pacific Islands Forest Restoration Network?
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The Global Partnership on Forest Landscape
Restoration

• An informal network of organisations interested
  in FLR
• Includes UK Forestry Commission, World Bank, FAO,
  Ghana FRI, ITTO, IUCN,
• Is developing a number of restoration learning
  sites around the world ( looking for more)
• Has newsletter, runs training sessions
• Seeks new members
• Learning from Landscapes
• http//www.iucn.org/what/ecosystems/pub_resources.
  cfm?uNewsID1544
• Global Partnership on Forest Landscape
  Restoration
• http//www.unep-wcmc.org/forest/restoration/global
  partnership/

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The Forest Restoration Information System

• Run by UN Environmental Program network
• provide an internet information service to
  support forest restoration projects world-wide
• facilitate exchange of knowledge and experience
  among forest restoration projects,
• provides a basis for analyzing factors
  determining success
• facilitate the prioritization, design and
  execution of forest restoration efforts by FRIS
  users
• http//www.unep-wcmc.org/forest/restoration/fris/d
  efault.aspx

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A Pacific Islands Forest Restoration Network

• Objectives (a community of practitioners?)
• What it would do?
• How it might do it?
• What would it cost?
• Who could establishing and maintaining such a
  network?
• (NB ITTO interested in forest rehabilitation in
  Pacific?)

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Information to share on a network? What is of
interest?

• Current timber prices of Pacific timbers
• Communicating with communities
• Species able to tolerate difficult sites
• Case studies and lessons learned (mid-way through
  projects, newspaper articles)
• Types of partnerships?
• Extension methods
• Controlling fire
• Achievements
• Finance and sponsorship - Pacific suppliers

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Communique

• A meeting was held in Nadi on
• It was organised by the LRD of SPC and sponsored
  by ..
• Representatives from (countries) attended.
  Altogether there were X participants.
• The program included

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• These representatives recommend the following
  activities are priorities for overcoming forest
  and land degradation in the Pacific region
• Silvicultural techniques more work on indigenous
  and exotic species. This to involve seed
  technology (including supply, storage and
  handling methods), nursery techniques,
  species-site relations, provenance trial with
  seed from the Pacific and other regions.
• Germplasm exchange review former SPRIG
  arrangements concerning transfer of plant
  material
• Extension methods take advantage of some of the
  promising new methods being developed to promote
  reforestation by landowners
• Partnerships learn from the variety of new
  partnerships that are evolving (landowners with
  governments, companies and NGOs)
• New reforestation techniques these for heavily
  degraded sites and also those to make
  reforestation attractive to landowners (eg.
  underplanting with food plants or cash crops)
• New financial arrangements to enable
  reforestation to commence and to make
  reforestation attractive to landowners

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• The group recommends that the LRD of the SPC
  assist PICTs by
• Developing a Pacific Islands Restoration network
  to share knowledge .
• Organising further training and capacity building
  courses covering these topics (by ??)
• Assist identify funding sources able to finance
  these activities