Province / Scope of project Threats to wetlands Key wetland ES Key sectors Key features for economic assessment / Site sustainable finance study Hainan Terrestrial wetland Logging Provision of food Tourism Economic land use study comparing sustainable PAs including (commercial & use of mangroves (including tourism if catchment PAs Land clearing for agriculture and subsistence) Marine fisheries appropriate) with its conversion to shrimp farms, inland, main focus rubber plantations, infrastructure agricultural land, including distributional analysis, on mangrove PAs development, tourism Tourism potential Aquaculture identification of opportunities for along the coast. new financing mechanisms, and Clearance of mangroves for coastal Carbon sequestration Agriculture alternative livelihoods. To be undertaken at development including tourism Dongzhaigang Mangrove Nature Reserve. facilities Coastal protection Coastal (including: erosion protection Focus on the value of mangrove coastal protection Conversion of mangroves to resistance; storm defense; function given increased risk of typhoons / aquaculture ponds vertical accretion through Forestry flooding, linking with climate change adaptation sediment capture; and agenda. Duck farming in mangrove areas biomass accretion) A provincial scale assessment of mangrove Overexploitation of wetland resources Removal of nutrients and coastal protection functions such as fish and shellfish pollutants Development of business plan for Dongzhaigang Pollution and disease from sewage, Nutrient cycling (basis of aquaculture ponds and agriculture coastal / marine food chains) Electronic fishing Spawning / nursery area Invasive alien species for coastal fish, shrimps & other species
Province / Site Scope of project Threats to wetlands Key wetland ES Key sectors Key features for economic assessment / sustainable finance study Hainan Terrestrial wetland PAs including catchment PAs inland, main focus on mangrove PAs along the coast. Logging Land clearing for agriculture and rubber plantations, infrastructure development, tourism Clearance of mangroves for coastal development including tourism facilities Conversion of mangroves to aquaculture ponds Duck farming in mangrove areas Overexploitation of wetland resources such as fish and shellfish Pollution and disease from sewage, aquaculture ponds and agriculture Electronic fishing Invasive alien species Provision of food (commercial & subsistence) Tourism potential Carbon sequestration Coastal protection (including: erosion resistance; storm defense; vertical accretion through sediment capture; and biomass accretion) Removal of nutrients and pollutants Nutrient cycling (basis of coastal / marine food chains) Spawning / nursery area for coastal fish, shrimps & other species Tourism Marine fisheries Aquaculture Agriculture Coastal protection Forestry Economic land use study comparing sustainable use of mangroves (including tourism if appropriate) with its conversion to shrimp farms, agricultural land, including distributional analysis, identification of opportunities for new financing mechanisms, and alternative livelihoods. To be undertaken at Dongzhaigang Mangrove Nature Reserve. Focus on the value of mangrove coastal protection function given increased risk of typhoons / flooding, linking with climate change adaptation agenda. A provincial scale assessment of mangrove coastal protection functions Development of business plan for Dongzhaigang
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