This presentation was delivered at the third Asia-Pacific Forestry Week 2016, in Clark Freeport Zone, Philippines. The five sub-thematic streams at APFW 2016 included: Pathways to prosperity: Future trade and markets Tackling climate change: challenges and opportunities Serving society: forestry and people New institutions, new governance Our green future: green investment and growing our natural assets

1. Enhancing the Resilience of Coastal Wetlands
to Promote Sustainable Livelihoods
in Changing Climate

2. Vien Ngoc NAM
Faculty of Forestry
Nong Lam University
Ho Chi Minh City
Vietnam
Rodel Lasco
Worl Gorestry Center
(ICRAF), Khush Hall Bldg.
Los Baños, 4031, Laguna,
The Philippines
Muljadi Tantra
Green Forest Product & Tech.
Pte. Ltd.
3 Shenton Way,
Singapore 068805
Wahyu Catur Adinugroho
Forest Research and Development,
Ministry of Environment and Forestry
Jl. Gn. Batu No. 5 Bogor
Indonesia
Taryono Darusman
General Field Manager
Katingan Peatland Restoration
Project, Central Kalimantan
Indonesia
Benyamin Brown
Research Institute for Env & Livelihoods
Charles Darwin University
Darwin, Northern Territory 0909
Australia
Daniel Murdiyarso
Center for International Forestry Research
Jl. CIFOR, Situgede,
Bogor 16115
Indonesia

3. USDA FOREST SERVICE
The role of mangroves
in Typhoon-affected area in the Philippines

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Damages: Tacloban City
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Damages: Ormoc City
DID MANGOVES HELP REDUCE DAMAGE?

6. USDA FOREST SERVICE
Coastal Wetlands Resilience:
Unlocking the potential of mangrove palms

7. NYPA FRUTICANS
• ‘Nipa’ or ‘Mangrove Palm’
– The only mangrove that is also a palm
– Leaves used for roofing material
• Indigenous to S & SE Asia
• One of the most prolific sources of sugar on earth
– Easily fermentable into alcohol

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9. USDA FOREST SERVICE
Restoration of Degraded Coastal Wetlands
in the Mekong Delta

10. Mangrove in Ca Mau Province
Mangrove & Market Project
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11. 1990’s decade with the shrimp culture boomed
Converted mangrove into shrimp ponds
Ratio 70% Forest / 30% Pond
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12. LEVELLING RAISED BED IN SHRIMP
POND
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13. Green Coastal Forestry
for Coastal Development

14. USDA FOREST SERVICE
Assessing C stocks as Part of MRV
and National Mitigation Actions

15. Source: Lagomasino, NASA, 2015 USDA FOREST SERVICE
Mapping mangroves distribution
and C stocks in Papua, Indonesia

16. Lowland and Mangrove Forest Classification
By using Flexible Statistical Expert Based Classification method, up to 17 distinct classes of land cover with
overall accuracy of 94.38% and kappa coefficient of 0.94 has been classified
Aslan Aslan1, Abdullah F. Rahman2, Matthew W. Warren3, Scott M. Robeson4, and Taryono Darusman5
1School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA), Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405 - (aslanota@indiana.edu) ; 2Coastal Studies Lab, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, San Padre Island, TX 78597;
3Northern Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Durham, NH 03824; 4Department of Geography, Indiana University, Bloomington, In 47405 ; 5Puter Indonesia Foundation, Jakarta, INDONESIA

17. Mangrove Canopy Height Model
The modeled mangrove canopy height ranged from 4.3 to 36.2 m, whereas field data varies
between 4.6 and 32 m with margin of error 3.0 m for MAE and 3.7 m for RMSE, respectively.
Aslan Aslan1, Abdullah F. Rahman2, Matthew W. Warren3, Scott M. Robeson4, and Taryono Darusman5
1School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA), Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405 - (aslanota@indiana.edu) ; 2Coastal Studies Lab, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, San Padre Island, TX 78597;
3Northern Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Durham, NH 03824; 4Department of Geography, Indiana University, Bloomington, In 47405 ; 5Puter Indonesia Foundation, Jakarta, INDONESIA

18. Mangrove Biomass Model
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Mangrove standing biomass in coastal area of Mimika varies from 62 Mg/ha in low canopy young
Avicennia/Sonneratia stands to 1105 Mg/ha in mature tall canopy Rhizopora dominated stands
Aslan Aslan1, Abdullah F. Rahman2, Matthew W. Warren3, Scott M. Robeson4, and Taryono Darusman5
1School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA), Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405 - (aslanota@indiana.edu) ; 2Coastal Studies Lab, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, San Padre Island, TX 78597;
3Northern Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Durham, NH 03824; 4Department of Geography, Indiana University, Bloomington, In 47405 ; 5Puter Indonesia Foundation, Jakarta, INDONESIA
Our modeled estimation of biomass is within the 90% confidence intervals for Rhizophora and
Bruguiera, and all mangroves combined when compared to the area weighted mangrove
biomass derived from field calculations.

19. USDA FOREST SERVICE
Discussion