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At A Glance
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The Response
Local communities use a variety of methods of bamboo harvesting, from plantation to cutting in natural forests. Such harvesting, however, often results in damage to species, including Giant Panda and Red Panda, and to the ecosystem in general. The project will demonstrate the economic and conservation benefits of maintaining mixed bamboo species stands, restricted harvest levels, and will seek to implement eco-certification schemes for bamboo from sustainably managed forests. The project will combine work with bamboo harvesters at township level at pilot sites in Hunan, Sichuan and Yunnan with monitoring and policy advocacy at national level.
Project Focus
Ø To enable local government and communities in Sichuan, Hunan, and Yunnan to conserve natural bamboo forest biodiversity via sustainable use practices；
Ø To develop practical technical guidelines on biodiversity conservation in bamboo forests；
Ø To support bamboo timber certification schemes linked to Panda conservation；
Ø To advocate for sustainable management in all of China’s bamboo forest areas；
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Cooperating Agency
International Network for Bamboo and Rattan
Partners
1. Hunan Forestry Technology Extension Center, Hunan Provincial Forestry Department
2. Sichuan Provincial Management Centre for Converting Slope Farming Lands into Forest Programme
3. Management Office for Natural Forest Resource Management, Yunnan Provincial Forestry Department
4. The Research Institute of Subtropical Forestry, CAF
| EU contribution: |
US$ 923,111 |
| Matching funds: |
US$ 926,710 |
| Total Budget: |
US$ 1,849,821 |
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The Challenge
Natural bamboo forests are a major component of tropical and subtropical ecosystems in China. These forests symbolize a distinctive national biodiversity resource and provide livelihoods for more than 4 million rural people in China. However, given the economic importance of bamboo shoots and timber, these ecosystems are in most cases overexploited and degraded by industrial activities. The threats in bamboo forests serve as an example to illustrate the short and long term repercussions of wider forest biodiversity loss.
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