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COMMUNITY FOREST DEVELOPMENT. Rehabilitation and sustainable forest management by Jaap Kuper. Passive forest rehabilitation at the Royal Forest “Het Loo” Opportunities for passive forest rehabilitation in Yunnan Opportunities for active forest rehabilitation in Yunnan
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COMMUNITY FOREST DEVELOPMENT Rehabilitation and sustainable forest management by Jaap Kuper
Passive forest rehabilitation at the Royal Forest “Het Loo” • Opportunities for passive forest rehabilitation in Yunnan • Opportunities for active forest rehabilitation in Yunnan • Community forestry in context of climate change
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Conclusions on plantation forestry: • Plantations are too expensive • Plantations do not provide the forest services that natural forests can • Plantations cannot anticipate well on environmental changes
What is the solution? 1. Stop overharvesting the forest
What is the solution? • Stop overharvesting the forest • Make natural regeneration possible
What is the solution? • Stop overharvesting the forest • Make natural regeneration possible • Accept all natural regeneration
What is the solution? • Stop overharvesting the forest • Make natural regeneration possible • Accept all natural regeneration This is: passive forest rehabilitation
Development to a mosaic of forest ecosystems through selection felling forestry
Conclusions on passive rehabilitation • It is cheap • You can continue harvest • It is ecologically stable
Conclusions on passive rehabilitation • It is cheap • You can continue harvest • It is ecologically stable • But …. You need to have control over the users and over the land
Opportunities in Yunnan • There are many forest remnants
Opportunities in Yunnan • There are many forest remnants • They need rehabilitation
Opportunities in Yunnan • There are many forest remnants • They need rehabilitation • It is too expensive to do active rehabilitation
Opportunities in Yunnan • There are many forest remnants • They need rehabilitation • It is too expensive to do active rehabilitation • So : passive rehabilitation is a good solution