Climate-Resilient Ecosystems and Livelihoods (CREL) Project Measuring Degraded Forests and Developing Emissions Factors in Bangladesh Wednesday 17, 2015

Climate-Resilient Ecosystems and Livelihoods (CREL) Project

Measuring Degraded Forests and Developing Emissions Factors in Bangladesh

Wednesday 17, 2015 Marriot Courtyard, Bangkok, Thailand

MD. SHAMS UDDINUSAID’s CREL Project, Bangladesh

Moving on From Experimental Approaches to Advancing National Systems for Measuring and Monitoring Forest Degradation Across Asia


Forest in Bangladesh:

Source: NFA 2007

Mangrove Plantation

Hill Forest

Sal Forest

Sundarban Reserved Forest

Forest covers 9.8% area of the countryCategory of Forests

Area (Million Hectare)

Forest Department Managed Forests

1.52

Unclassed State Forest

0.73

Village Forest 0.27Total 2.52

Wildlife Sanctuary: 17National Park: 17

PA:

PA Covers 10.72% of total forest area


Year ActivityCurtis, 1924 Forest Management Plan for Sundarbans

Forestal, 1960 Detailed forest inventory of Sundarbans

Forestal, 1964 Chittagong Hill Tracts

Hammermaster, 1981 Inventory of the village forests

Chaffy et al., 1985 Forest Inventory of the Sundarbans Reserved Forest (SRF)

FAO, 2007 National forest resources assessment

BFD, USFS, and IPAC 2009

Forest Inventory Sundarbans

BFD and IPAC, 2011 Forest carbon inventory (Six PAs)

BFD, WI, CREL, 2014BFD, WI, CREL, 2015

8 Protected Areas5 Protected Areas (in progress)

Forest inventory: Bangladesh


Year Progress

2010 UN-REDD as partner country

2011 REDD+ steering committee and technical committee

REDD+ Cell Working groups on strategy, safeguards and MRV

2012 REDD+ roadmap

2013 Developed REDD+ Readiness Preparation Proposal (R-PP)

RPP implementation with UNREDD, FAO, UNDP, USAID, SilvaCarbon

CREL project initiatives in piloting sub-national REL development

REDD+ Activities: Bangladesh


Indi

cato

r 12 Number of hectares

(ha.) of biological significance and/or natural resources under improved NRM as a result of USG assistance.

Indi

cato

r 1 Quantity of greenhouse

gas emissions, measured in metric tons of CO2e, reduced or sequestered as a result of USG assistance.

Indi

cato

r 13 Number of hectares

(ha.) of biological significance and/or natural resources showing improved biophysical condition as a result of USG assistance.

Bangladesh National REDD+ Framework

NRMGHG BIO

USAID’s CREL:


Protected Area Inventoried area (ha)

Data collected (n)

Khadimnagar NP 679 9Lawachara NP 2,600 31Satchari NP 1,810 20Rema-Kalenga WS 5,550 63Modhupur NP 8,436 59Kaptai NP 5,464 57Chunati WS 7,764 111Himchari NP 2,000 27

Total 34,303 377

Forest Carbon Inventory 2014:


(iv) Data analysis

Methodology:

(i) Develop Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) In line with the future NFI for Bangladesh under REDD framework Consulted with forest Department (FD), FAO, and WI

(ii) Training and mobilize field team FD, Co-management representative, community people

(iii) Data collection ODK (Open Data Kit)

Live Trees and standing dead trees (CO2 Mg/ha): Seedlings or Saplings (CO2 Mg/ha): Bamboos & Canes (CO2 Mg/ha): Herbaceous vegetation & grasses (CO2 Mg/ha): Soil Analysis: Depth, organic carbon, bulk density


RapidEye imagery (2013), WorldView 2 (2011) , GoogleEarth

Land cover classification:

Land cover Classes KhNP LNP SNP RKWS MNP KNP CWS HNP Total (ha)

Agriculture 3 137 1 555 2,083 23 598 128 3,528

Bare land - - - - - 29 29

Degraded land 198 509 657 - 968 5,873

1,385 9,589

Forest 479 1,400 953 4,782 2,233 3,786 507 132 14,272

Plantation - - 93 578 42 361 15 1,088

Rubber 0 92 495 587

Settlement 1 310 - 68 2,872 271 981 329 4,831

Tea 98 227 104 20 450

Total PA (ha) 779 2,583 1,806 5,518 8,261 5,090 8,320 2,016 34,373


Rema-kalenga WS

Lawachara NP Chunati WS Kaptai NP Khadim NP Satchari NP Himchari NP -

2,000

4,000

6,000

8,000

10,000

12,000 10,678

3,130

4,366

939 884

3,104 2,034

2,961

1,466 1,426 1,035 1,012 954 895

169

# of Seedlings, saplings, trees per Ha

Seedlings Saplings Live trees

Modhupur NP -

5,000 10,000 15,000 20,000 25,000 30,000 35,000 30,312

1,835

Seedlings, saplings, trees recruitments


PA Total Live trees

Dead trees

Non-tree Litter Soil

CWS 146 104 0 10 9 23

HNP 53 38 0 0 0 14

KhNP 298 264 - 1 7 26

KNP 258 222 3 1 5 27

LNP 323 278 4 2 9 42

MNP 235 195 - 1 6 32

RKWS 381 330 0 1 5 46

SNP 266 219 0 1 11 34 CWS HNP KhNP KNP LNP MNP RKWS SNP

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50

100

150

200

250

300

350

400

CO2

Mg/

ha

Stocking, CO2 Mg/ha at different PAs


KhNPLN

PSN

PRKW

SM

NPKNP

CWS

HNP

Overa

ll0.000%

0.100%

0.200%

0.300%

0.400%

0.500%

0.600%

0.040%0.001%

0.550%

0.010%

0.229%

0.325%

0.098%

Rate of Deforestation (%)

Converted to . . . .

Hill Forest

Sal Forest

Plantation Rubber Degraded

forestTea

GardenAgricul

tureBare land

Converted

from . . . .

Hill Forest N/A N/A 93.4 114.4 257.9 288 319.1 324.8

Sal Forest N/A N/A 15.6 36.6 180.1 210.2 241.3 247.1

Plantation N/A N/A N/A 21 164.6 194.6 225.7 231.5

Rubber N/A N/A N/A N/A 143.5 173.6 204.7 210.4

Degraded forest -257.9 -180.1 -164.6 -143.5 N/A 30 61.1 66.9

Tea Garden N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 31.1 36.9

Agriculture -319.1 -241.3 -225.7 -204.7 N/A -31.1 N/A 5.8

Emission factor, CO ₂ Mg/ha

Forest Inventory 2014 : Deforestation


PA Stumps per ha

Emissions from extraction of trees (Mg CO2/ha)

CWS 26 2.51

KhNP

15 26.44

KNP 65 48.89

LNP 30 6.43

RKWS

19 19.00

SNP 40 18.02

MNP 19 4.03

ALL sites

31 17.90

CWS HNP KhNP KNP LNP MNP RKWS SNP -

10

20

30

40

50

60

Mg

CO₂/

ha

Forest Inventory 2014 : Degradation


Conclusion:

Results shared with FD Need skill manpower Varied drivers of changes


Thank you

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Climate-Resilient Ecosystems and Livelihoods (CREL) Project Measuring Degraded Forests and Developing Emissions Factors in Bangladesh Wednesday 17, 2015