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Face the Future - Forest with Impact

Face the Future ontwikkelt hoogwaardige klimaatbosprojecten over de hele wereld.

09/11/2023

Last week a Face the Future team returned from Madagascar having completed the Social Biodiversity Impact Assessment (SBIA) training and SBIA workshops for the WWF-VELUX Green Shores Project: Resilient Mangrove Ecosystems in Western Madagascar. The participants were very engaged, great discussions were held, and the workshops provided valuable input for the project. A big cheer for all participants, the WWF Madagascar team and facilitators for the great teamwork!

The SBIA training was held in Morondava aimed at building capacity within the local team to independently conduct the SBIA workshops. This was followed by three separate SBIA workshops held in Belo sur Tsiribihina, close to the remote Tsiribihina river mangrove delta. The SBIA workshops are intended to involve relevant communities and stakeholders in the development of the project, so the project can deliver appropriate benefits to stakeholders and their environment, and to identify challenges so these can be prevented or mitigated. Making use of series of exercises and tools, the drivers of deforestation and degradation, the key focal issues for the communities, and the underlying causes and ultimately potential interventions to bring positive change were discussed in depth. The selection of participants was based on a stakeholder identification and mapping process, ensuring representation of all relevant stakeholders.

Check out thi link to learn more about the project and the WWF-VELUX group partnership: https://facethefuture.com/news/two-new-forest-projects-in-madagascar-and-viet-nam

VELUX WWF Verdensnaturfonden

09/11/2023

Last week a Face the Future team returned from Madagascar having completed the Social Biodiversity Impact Assessment (SBIA) training and SBIA workshops for the WWF-VELUX Green Shores Project: Resilient Mangrove Ecosystems in Western Madagascar. The participants were very engaged, great discussions were held, and the workshops provided valuable input for the project. A big cheer for all participants, the team and facilitators for the great teamwork!

The SBIA training was held in Morondava aimed at building capacity within the local team to independently conduct the SBIA workshops. This was followed by three separate SBIA workshops held in Belo sur Tsiribihina, close to the remote Tsirbihina river mangrove delta. The SBIA workshops are intended to involve relevant communities and stakeholders in the development of the project, so the project can deliver appropriate benefits to stakeholders and their environment, and to identify challenges so these can be prevented or mitigated. Making use of series of exercises and tools, the drivers of deforestation and degradation, the key focal issues for the communities, and the underlying causes and ultimately potential interventions to bring positive change were discussed in depth. The selection of participants was based on a stakeholder identification and mapping process, ensuring representation of all relevant stakeholders.

Check out the link in our bio to learn more about the project and the WWF-VELUX group partnership.

02/11/2021

Good news! More than 100 world leaders at have agreed a deal to end and reverse by 2030 in the COP26 climate summit's first major deal.

Land-clearing by humans accounts for almost a quarter of greenhouse gas emissions, largely deriving from the destruction of the world’s forests for agricultural products such as palm oil, soy and beef.

By signing the Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forest and Land Use, presidents and prime ministers from major producers and consumers of deforestation-linked products will commit to protect forest ecosystems.

Read the full article here:
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-59088498

29/09/2021

WWF Verdensnaturfonden and WWF-Uganda have officially launched a 20-year project called “Natural Forest Regeneration for Enhanced Carbon Stocks in the Albertine Rift (FRECAR)”. This project, funded by the VELUX Group, is aimed at protection and restoration of forest for carbon sequestration, and improving biodiversity and community livelihoods in the Kangombe – Bugoma landscape in West Uganda. A mixture of approaches will be used, including active planting on selected forest reserves, boundary strengthening, and engaging communities to participate in the protection of these reserves as well as reducing pressure on them but also have improved livelihood. Using the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) and the Community, Conservation and Biodiversity (CCB) standard, this project will be contributing towards Uganda’s Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) in the forestry sector.

As Face the Future we will be guiding the process of VCS and CCB certification for which we will give trainings, implement carbon assessments, supervise the Social Biodiversity Impact Analysis, and CCB data analysis and reporting. We work together with Arbonaut, National Forestry Authority (NFA) Uganda and our team of national experts. Looking forward to be working with you!

More on the WWF-VELUX partnership:
https://wwf.panda.org/act/partner_with_wwf/corporate_partnerships/who_we_work_with/velux/

Photo credit: WWF Denemarken - Jonas Lysholdt Ejderskov

02/07/2021

This is the Celtis africana 🌳, also known as White Stinkwood. A tree commonly seen in the restored forest in . The chimpanzees that have returned to the project area are eating the leaves to promote their digestion.

17/06/2021

The project handed over honey processing equipments to the leaders of groups to enhance on the ongoing community beekeeping and honey project 🐝.

As part of the community program, village groups have started several income generating activites, including bee-keeping. This project was initiated at the forest boundaries to keep crop raiding elephants in the forest, since these big guys do not like angry bees, which they will be when disturbed. The production of honey also provides additional income!

03/06/2021

If you see a straight line of trees in a forest you will know that they didn't get there naturally. This is also the case with these Thevetia peruviana trees, also known as Yellow Oleander 🌳. They have been planted in the past by farmers as hedgerows, and now 30 years later they became part of the restored forests in . Although this small ornamental tree is exotic to the , they are not being removed by the project since they are not invasive.

27/05/2021

Monitoring of fruit-feeding butterflies in Uganda has started again 🦋🌳! Scattered across the project area in reforested areas of different age classes, the researchers are placing "butterfly traps," where butterflies are lured with pieces of fermented banana.

Butterflies are an ideal study group because among insects, their ecology and taxonomy are better known than any other group both globally and in Uganda. Butterflies act as pollinators, prey and herbivores in forest ecosystems and they are important flagship species for conservation. Fruit-feeding butterflies are generally forest specialist butterflies that are attracted by rotten fruits on the forest floor. Therefore, the abundance and diversity of these species can be used as a proxy for recovery of overall biodiversity in our restored forests.

The aim of the study is to investigate the pattern and timescale of recovery of fruit-feeding butterfly diversity and communities during forest restoration using different aged, restored areas of . These monitoring activities are a contiuation of a study that was conducted in 2011. The first rounds of monitoring have taken place last year.

19/05/2021

Living and farming close to the borders of provides challenges to the park and the surrounding communities. The main challenges are poaching and human-wildlife conflicts caused by crop raiding animals. Duikers, bushbucks and buffaloes are the main species in the park targeted by poachers. On community land, some problem animals (like baboons or wild pigs) are allowed to be shot under strict conditions and supervision of pest control guards. However, killing or harming chimpanzees, elephants and buffaloes is strictly prohibited, even when they raid crops or damage community property. UWA rangers support communities in leading the animals safely back to the Park.

Last year the project funded the construction of an additional ranger outpost in the west of the park. In total 4 UWA rangers are permanently stationed in this outpost, patrolling the park boundaries for poaching activities and providing timely response to crop raiding incidences and other human-wildlife conflicts. With the rangers presence, we also promote our project, and work together with local communities to find alternative, more sustainable solutions for the underlying problems of poaching and human-wildlife conflicts.

04/05/2021

Is it a UFO? A robot? No, this remarable shiny little creature is called the silver tortoise beetle (Charidotella sp.). It was found on the plant fluegea virosa, a shrub regenerating in one of our planted areas in .

29/04/2021

Besides capturing CO2, our projects also support local communities, for instance with a project fund. Community groups can submit a proposal for local, income-generating activities.

Recently, the Community Steering Committee has been established for our project in , Uganda. Their role is to more effectively and transparently evaluate and approve new proposals, providing advice to communities and , and monitor the performance of projects in relation to the formulated goals, objectives and underlying Focal Issues.

In the photos you see the Steering Committee visiting several community projects along the boundary of , including agroforestry farmers, small scale millers, women groups for catering and apiary, and bodaboda business (bike taxi).

15/04/2021

Nice flower you might think? 🌸That may be true indeed, however this plant called Lantana camara is an invasive species that spreads so prolifically that it threatens native biodiversity and especially overgrow the newly planted trees for .

As part of the exotic eradication strategy the project is using money from the CO2 revenue sharing fund to clear the land of this invasive species. This is a time-consuming activity that provides for approximately 120 jobs for 4 months a year. In total the project has cleared 240 hectares of Lantana camara since 2017!

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