management with the Ministry of Climate and provincial governments -GoP approaches emanating Change, adopted, publicized would be less conducive to make from the project sites and supported in the country changes from existing narrowly as part of future regular or focused forest production priorities development programs and shared widely through case studies etc. Outcome 2 Hectares of high 0 At least 18,000 ha of Western Landscape Assumptions: Biodiversity biodiversity Himalayan Conifer forests, 4,459 management plans; -Provincial governments conservation conservation value ha of sub-tropical evergreen thorny Forest working willingness to provide staff and strengthened in and forests identified, forests and 18,898 ha of riverine plans include SFM resource mobilization for meeting around High designated and forests prescriptions biodiversity conservation outcomes Conservation Value effectively managed in areas already assigned for this Forests for biodiversity and purpose climate mitigation - Additional areas set-aside for conservation are based on clearly defined criteria for biodiversity conservation Risk: -Government priorities may change from forest protection to industrial use. -Population trends of Riverine forests: Population of indicator species Annual Forest surveys Assumptions: key indicator species stable or increase over baseline and inventory at defined -Adequate resources and training Axis porcinus 345 of values number of sites in each provided to staff and researchers to Ovis vignei Plantanista forest landscapes conduct inventory and monitoring punjabensis, Axis gangetice minor porcinus, Pucrasia macrolop, Platanista Scrub forests: gangetica minor stable or increasing Ovis vignei punjabensis 200 – Gazella gazella - 25 Conifer forests: Lophorus lophorus impejanus 375 – Semnopithecus entellus 150 – Emissions of metric 0 4,759,145 tCo2 eq. Forest (biomass) Assumptions: tCO2 avoided from carbon
management approaches emanating from the project sites with the Ministry of Climate Change, adopted, publicized and supported in the country as part of future regular or development programs and shared widely through case studies etc. -GoP and provincial governments would be less conducive to make changes from existing narrowly focused forest production priorities Outcome 2 Biodiversity conservation strengthened in and around High Conservation Value Forests Hectares of high biodiversity conservation value forests identified, designated and effectively managed for biodiversity and climate mitigation 0 At least 18,000 ha of Western Himalayan Conifer forests, 4,459 ha of sub-tropical evergreen thorny forests and 18,898 ha of riverine forests Landscape management plans; Forest working plans include SFM prescriptions Assumptions: -Provincial governments willingness to provide staff and resource mobilization for meeting biodiversity conservation outcomes in areas already assigned for this purpose - Additional areas set-aside for conservation are based on clearly defined criteria for biodiversity conservation Risk: -Government priorities may change from forest protection to industrial use. -Population trends of key indicator species of Ovis vignei punjabensis, Axis porcinus, Pucrasia macrolop, Platanista gangetica minor stable or increasing Riverine forests: Axis porcinus 345 Plantanista gangetice minor Scrub forests: Ovis vignei punjabensis – 200 Gazella gazella - 25 Conifer forests: Lophorus lophorus impejanus – 375 Semnopithecus entellus – 150 Population of indicator species stable or increase over baseline values Annual Forest surveys and inventory at defined number of sites in each forest landscapes Assumptions: -Adequate resources and training provided to staff and researchers to conduct inventory and monitoring Emissions of metric tCO2 avoided from 0 4,759,145 tCo2 eq. Forest (biomass) carbon Assumptions:
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