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1. Forest conservation in light of
climate change
Presentation made at the IUFRO –FORNESSA Regional Congress
ICRAF, Nairobi, Kenya, 25 – 29 June 2012
by
Emmanuel Chidumayo
African Forest Forum
Nairobi, Kenya
2. OUTLINE OF PRESENTATION
Definitions
Climate change in Africa
Forest conservation in light of climate change
• Climate effects on trees and forests
• Forest conservation
• Conservation strategies under climate change
•The concept of climate refugia
• Resilience-Accommodation-Transformation nexus
Is forest conservation possible in a changing
climate?
3. WHAT IS FOREST?
Forest comes from a Latin word forestis
(silva) literally meaning “wood outside”.
Historical England: Forest was defined
as “an area, typically owned by loyalty,
kept for hunting and having its own
laws”.
In Middle English, Forest meant “ a
wooded area kept for hunting “ and
included all uncultivated land with or
without trees.
4. WHAT IS FOREST CONSERVATION?
Conservatives :
Forest conservation in the context of
protectionism
Counting trees and keeping natives out, where
ever possible
Liberals:
Forest conservation is about good forest
management that enhances and sustains tree
and forest resources and, including
sustainable utilization in support of livelihoods
and socio-economic development.
5. WHAT IS CLIMATE CHANGE?
Climate change is a shift in climate,
occurring as a result of human activities
Climate change is expressed as deviations
from a regional climatology determined by
analysis of long-term measurements,
usually over a period of at least 30 years
6. IS CLIMATE IN AFRICA CHANGING?
Yes! But its intensity and extent varies from
eco-region to eco-region.
I distinguish 3 main eco-regions:
The Sahel, Woodlands & savannas and moist
forests.
Woodlands & savannas are further divided
into Sudanian, East African, Southern African
(Zambezian) and southwest African.
9. Precipitation: Future
patterns
Fluctuations in decadal mean precipitation will
continue into the future but extreme events
(floods & droughts) are likely to increase in
frequency and intensity.
Model predictions of future precipitation
patterns have been problematic due to large
uncertainties partly because of the
unpredictable behavior of El Niño Southern
Oscillation (ENSO) and the role of deforestation
in influencing regional precipitation.
10. Thermal patterns
All eco-regions in Africa have been
experiencing warming since the 1960s
although the rate of warming varies
among the eco-regions.
Model predictions indicate further
warming in future.
12. B1 – LOW SCENARIO FOR 2020 AND
2050 (Hulme et al., 2001)
13. IN THE FACE OF THESE CLIMATIC TRENDS
AND FLUCTUATIONS,
HOW CAN WE CONSERVE TREE AND
FOREST RESOURCES?
14. Climate change affects
•ecosystem services,
•biodiversity,
•livelihoods and
•socio-economic development
More importantly, climate change is and will
affect tree and forest regeneration and
production.
But trees and forests also affect climate
Forest conservation in the light of climate
change has two important roles:
1. To assist trees and forests to adapt to climate
change (Adaptation)
2. To slow down climate change (Mitigation)
17. In a utopian sense:
Tree and forest conservation aims at
saving all biodiversity and all ecosystem
services.
In reality, due to limited resources, we
need to prioritize conservation efforts.
To do this we need to set conservation
objectives and direct efforts towards
priority objectives.
18. Globally these priority conservation
objectives have been guided by the IUCN Red
data lists that categorize species by threat
status.
The highest conservation efforts are directed
at the most threatened species: those that are
close to extinction and less effort is given to
species that are least threatened.
The classification is based on the population
size of mature or reproductive individuals in a
species.
Here lies the devil in the detail.
19. THE IUCN APPROCH
This approach may not be
appropriate in the light of climate
threats to species.
Because in many cases it is the pre-
adult stages that are most
threatened by climate factors and
therefore climate change.
20. California valley oak (Quercus lobata)
(Mclaughlin & Zavaleta, 2012)
The sapling stage is more vulnerable to climate
change and whereas climate envelope
modeling based on long-lived adult trees
indicated that this species would have a wider
distribution range,
Modeling using the sapling stage revealed a
more constricted area of distribution. So the
climate envelope for saplings was narrower and
that regeneration would be restricted to areas
around water bodies (habitat refugia).
21. Piliostigma thonningii at a Zambezian
woodland site in central Zambia
Life history Sensitivity Response Response
stage to climate variable direction
Seed High Germinatio Negative
n rate
Seedling High Mortality Negative
Sapling Very high Radial Negative
growth
Tree Low Radial Negative
growth
22. IMPLICATIONS OF THE IUCN APPROACH
Without tree and forest regeneration
there will be few or no trees and forests
under the future climate.
By solely relying on the current IUCN
approach for determining conservation
status of species:
We will be conserving ghost trees and
ghost forests consisting of giant tree
zombies.
23. WHERE IS THE FUTURE TREE?
Based on National Geographic
24. CONSERVATION STRATEGIES UNDER CLIMATE CHANGE
Current conservation approaches under climate change include
the following 11:
1. Reduce other pressures on biodiversity
2. Increase the number of protected sites
3. Increase the size of individual protected sites
4. Provide buffer areas around protected sites
5. Improve the functional connectivity between sites
6. Protect ⁄ create potential refugia for species
7. Maintain or increase the habitat heterogeneity at site and
landscape scales
8. Maintain species diversity within communities
9. Protect natural processes
10. Promote the potential for natural genetic exchange between
populations
11. Control invasive species
25. How practical is it to apply
these conservation approaches
under climate change.
For us to use these approaches we need to
first understand the functional traits of the
species, especially knowledge about how
species respond to climate factors.
26. How practical is it to apply these
conservation approaches under
climate change.
On the basis of responses to climate factors, species
can be classified as:
Insensitive or neutral: These species will most likely
persist under climate change.
Sensitive: these species can be divided into two
groups.
Adaptors: These species will not only persist but also
increase demographically and expand spatially.
Vulnerable: These species will fail to adapt and
therefore become extinct.
28. Another study in South Africa focused on the dispersal
traits among species of the Proteaceae in the Cape
Floristic Region and came up with the following
spectrum (Williams et al., 2005):
29. In adaptation planning for
biodiversity conservation,
it is important to know which
species are likely to benefit from a
particular conservation approach
30. THE CONCEPT OF CLIMATE REFUGIA
The philosophy of the climate refugia is that
vulnerable species in a changing climate can survive
and persist in habitats that will remain favourable
under climate change
or that they can migrate to the remaining favourable
habitats.
But with so much habitat fragmentation under way,
unless such refugia are in existing protected areas, it
will not be easy for such species migrate to safety.
Hence the call to expand protected areas or create
migration corridors.
31. In this context, let us go back to
the 1980s when Africa was
drying up and test the climate
refugia approach to biodiversity
conservation.
32. Distribution of wetter areas in the 1980s
and large protected areas . Based on
Nicholson (2001) and WCMC (1997)
33. To expand protected areas to include the
favourable habitats in a skeptical socio-political
environment will be a feat of Nobel Prize winning
proportion.
And yet, these are the challenges that
conservationists will have to deal with.
This also calls for the intensification of conservation
efforts within the existing protected areas that will
supposedly remain favourable in the light of
climate change.
34. This means that where adaptation is
failing due to the intensification of
climate change
We should resort to higher level
conservation strategies.
36. The three successive levels of conservation effort:
Adaptation: natural or aided leading to resilience
Accommodation: Don’t fight it if you cannot win; work
within the changed climatic circumstances
Transformation: Make the habitat suitable. For example,
erect barriers to protect mangroves from complete
submergence due to sea level rise. Or transfer water
from wetter areas to drier areas to save mesic species.
But be aware that costs, risks and uncertainties increase
along the this conservation axis: from adaptation to
accommodation to transformation.
But if we have to bail-out the biodiversity in distress, we
will have to take these risks.
38. Finally let me attempt to answer the
question:
Is forest conservation possible under
climate change scenarios?
I think to a large extent, Yes!
But it will take more good research,
better policies and better conservation
practices and perhaps the most
difficult link in all this, more human
and financial resources.