1. COMMUNITY FORESTRY FOR
TROPICAL FOREST CONSERVATION
Nisa Novita
FS 600

2. Community Forestry
“Any situation which intimately involves local
people in a forestry activity. It embraces a
spectrum of situations ranging from woodlots in
areas which are short of wood and other forest
products for local needs, through the growing of
trees at the farm level to provide cash crops and
the processing of forest products at the
household, artisan or small industry level to
generate income, to the activities of
forest dwelling communities” (FAO, 1992).

3. Problem
 12% to 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions
produced from LULUCF,
 Tropical deforestation accounted for 10 percent of
global carbon dioxide emissions between 2000-2005
(recent study by Harris, et.al 2012)
 Deforestation caused by :
- agricultural expansion ( 96% of the studied cases)
- the extension of infrastructure (72%)
- forest exploitation(67%)

5. Why community forestry
 Local people care about forest
 Reflects more than needs, surprise!
 Most cultures have conservation friendly
practices
 “Indigenous knowledge”  Many cultures have
rich knowledge of biodiversity and forest
knowledge
 Local people already protect nature in vast areas
 Vast opportunity to work with local people

7. Success story from community
forestry in Mexico (adapted
from Bray et.al 2010)
 Quintana Roo, has the lowest rate of deforestation in
southern Mexico
 Sierra Norte showed a 3.3% expansion of pine-oak forests
over a 20-year.
 The Monarch Butterfly Biosphere -> two small communities
successfully maintained forest cover from rapid degradation
rate

8. Link : http://blog.cifor.org/12135/clocking-the-worlds-forests/#.UR00aKXgkyI