A presentation given at the Global Bamboo and Rattan Congress (BARC 2018), 25-27 June 2018.

1. Forest Landscapes for Nature and People
Alistair Monument
WWF Practice Leader, Forests
26 June, 2018
©VangmuangPhongphailath/WWF-Laos

2. WWF around the world

3. WWF and Landscape Approach
A ‘Landscape approach’ is a way of managing the
landscape that involves long-term collaboration among
multiple stakeholders, with the purpose of achieving
sustainable landscapes.
A ‘Sustainable Landscape’
can meet the needs of the
present, without
compromising the ability
of future generations to
meet their own needs.
Multi
Stakeholder
Partnership
Shared
Understanding
Collaborative
Planning
Effective
Implementation
Monitoring

4. Landscape Opportunities for business
Three entry points
Engage in a
landscape
Multi-
Stakeholder
Partnership
Own supply
chain
commitment
Interventions at
the producer
level

5. A world enriched by extensive and
resilient forest landscapes benefiting
biodiversity, people and climate
© Shruti Suresh / WWF-Cambodia
WWF’s Vision for Forests
Bamboo and rattan
are part of the solution

6. § New technologies expanding its use
§ Potential to contribute to poverty alleviation, green
development, landscape restoration, combating climate
change and nature conservation
§ Alternative to timber: increasingly being seen as an
efficient supply of versatile, renewable materials
§ If harvested sustainably, bamboo and rattan can provide
vital income for communities
§ By adding economic value to the forest, can help reduce
the pressure to clear forests for other land uses
Bamboo & Rattan Opportunities

7. Bamboo & Rattan: WWF China
ü Promote bamboo FSC
certification in Fujian
and Sichuan Province
ü Supported about 25,000
ha, benefiting 30,000
smallholders.
ü Improved local
community participation
and management
capacity.
ü Bamboo and Plukenetia
Volubilis Linneo
ü Rainforest restoration in
Xishuangbanna,
Yunnan Province (云南)
ü Establish food source
for Wild Asian
Elephants and building
migration corridor
ü Provide alternative
livelihoods; high market
value of bamboo shoots,
and antioxidant of
bamboo leaves
extraction for health
supplement industry
ü China bamboo
plantation study tour in
Zhejiang Province
ü More than 50
participants from
governments, global
companies, civil society
and other stakeholders.
ü Exchange information
on bamboo
management model,
certification benefit,
bamboo forest carbon
sink, bamboo industry.
Rainforest
Restoration
Learning &
Sharing
Sustainable
Management

8. Bamboo & Rattan: WWF Greater Mekong
Linking to global supply chains:
Benefits to conservation, local
livelihoods & climate
• 91,647 ha natural forest of rattan &
bamboo are under forest management.
• 10,949 ha FSC natural rattan in Laos
• 6,000 ha of natural rattan in Vietnam in
process toward FSC (stepwise scheme).
• Government buy-in to enrich rattan into
community forest up-to-date 3,036 ha.
• 70,352 ha of HCV mapped & shared
disseminated
• 2 rattan processors (in Laos) FSC-CoC
• Over 12,000 households receiving
benefit from the project
• 27 communities (rattan & bamboo
harvesters, weavers)
• 2 Watershed Protection Forest
Management Boards have co-forest
management plans with communities
for sustainable rattan harvest and
forest patrolling.

9. • High Conservation Value
forests set aside
• FSC rattan certification forest
area has a lower forest loss
compared with other areas
On-the-Ground Conservation Impacts

10. Lessons Learned & Challenges
§ Strong need to secure finance for SMEs and smallholders.
§ Trust & relationship among communities, smallholders & SME/private
sector for long-term business more important that business contracts.
Lessons Learned
§ High costs & governance issues are challenges for smallholders to
pursue sustainable forest management.
§ Private sector reluctant to invest and do long term business with
communities due to high logistic costs, trust issues and weak policies.
§ Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have low skills in
communicating with international buyers.
§ SMEs lack financial capital to invest in their business.
Challenges

11. What Can Business Do?
§ Companies looking at bamboo as an alternative source
of fibre that can take pressure off forests
§ Kimberly-Clark, for example, has been incorporating
FSC-certified bamboo into a tissue brands
Business can do more!
§ Investing in innovation
§ Building trust and relationship with smallholders and
SMEs
§ Supporting sustainable rattan production and, in turn,
gaining and expanding access to new markets

12. Join 30x30 Forests, Food & Land Challenge
How we use land – and the food, clothing, paper, and fuel products that
come out of it – can no longer be part of the problem. It must be part of
the Solution.
We are calling on businesses, states, city and local governments, and
global citizens to take action for better forest and habitat conservation,
food production and consumption, and land use, working together across
all sectors of the economy to deliver up to 30% of the climate solutions
needed by 2030.
Global Climate Action Summit:
The first ever global, sub-national climate summit to be held in
September in California.
It will bring together leaders from international, regional and local
governments, business, and people from all walks of life, to
demonstrate how the tide has turned on the fight against climate
change. It will also showcase climate action taking place around the
world, and inspire deeper commitments from each other and from
national governments.
The Challenge

13. By getting involved in innovative
solutions, businesses can help
secure their own supplies of
renewable materials in a
resource-constrained world,
while enabling people and
nature to thrive together.
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