Group 3- Assessed project work 1- phase 5

Forestation Programs

Forestation programs can be seen all around the world due to the depletion of forest coverage in the earth. UNESCO and other organisation organised different programs that suggested the importance of this if we want to breathe. Those programs were carried out from kids to the older people and tried to get their help to carry out the available programs. There are two identifiable programs such as reforestation and afforestation.

Reforestation is a component of a land stewardship ethic that incorporates growing, supporting, and harvesting trees to meet determined targets while conserving soil, air, and water quality with asset administration concerns or in other words it is the natural or intentional restocking of existing forests and woodlands. Reforestation following harvest or revegetating territories bared by natural or human disasters is important to ensuring forest sustainability. Reforestation can be used to amend or enhance the human life by drenching up pollution and dust from the air, rebuild natural habitats and ecosystems, mitigate global warming and harvest for resources.

Afforestation, another kind of forestation, alludes to the way toward re-establishing and reproducing areas of forests or woodlands that may have existed long ago yet were deforested or generally expelled sooner or later before or lacked it naturally. Governments and non-governmental organizations specifically take part in projects of afforestation to make forests, increase carbon capture and carbon sequestration, and help to enhance biodiversity.

Forestation programs in Sri Lanka

·         Reforestation at Samanala Tank Catchment area (ReForest SriLanka)

Reforest Sri Lanka joined with the University of Sabaragamuwa to forest areas with no forest cover along the Samanala tank catchment area on the lands belonging to the University. During the first wave on 16th October 2015, were able to establish 250 plants which will be looked after by the University until they become resilient to the weather conditions.

There were presence of academics from three different universities at the event; The University of Sabaragamuwa, Moratuwa and Kelaniya. Na, Weera, Palu, Burutha, Milla, Mahogany, Teak, Sandalwood, Tamarind, Mee, Pihimbiya etc. were among the 25 types of trees that were planted.

·         Red Slender Loris Conservation Project 

The Red Slender Loris Conservation Project (RSLCP) identified that deforestation and forest isolation is also high in this region and four out of six Horton Plains Slender Loris (HPSL) occupied forests were isolated – Horton Plains NP, Conical Hill FR, Single Tree FR, and Haggala SNR. As part of the ongoing RSLCP, a Species Conservation Strategy (SCS) has been drafted, which has identified the restoration of the Montane Evergreen Forests (MEF) and raising awareness among local stakeholders as priority activities for conservation of the HPSL. This is a collaborative initiative, with Sri Lankan and international partners, including: the Open University of Sri Lanka, University of Colombo, and Land Owners Restore Rainforests in Sri Lanka and the Zoological Society of London with financial support provided by BBC Wildlife Fund.

·         Green Spine Reforestation Program

·         Greening Batticaloa

Batticaloa, situated in the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka, has seen a dramatic reduction in its forest cover over the last century. The devastating aftermath of the cyclone in 1978 and the Asian Tsunami in 2004 coupled with unsustainable deforestation practices resulted in considerable damage to the district’s socio-economic fabric, ecosystems and greenery. This has been identified as a key factor contributing to the excessive heat experienced locally, also exacerbating the further depletion of the forest cover. It has also been regularly subjected to extreme weather including droughts and floods, and the local economy which is dependent on agriculture and fishing has floundered as a consequence. Acknowledging this, Dilmah Conservation undertook the planting of 50,000 cashew plants annually to improve Batticaloa’s green cover and to help mitigate the detrimental impacts of deforestation practices, while economically empowering the local communities.

Forestation programs in Asia

·         Mangrove Restoration and Reforestation in Asia

Mangrove Restoration and Reforestation in Asia, a Project for Knowledge Exchange and Action to Protect Climate change, Forest and Biodiversity. There will be more than one country will get benefits in future from this project such as India, Sri Lanka, Cambodia and Thailand. Funded by the Ministry or Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the Foundation Ursula Merz; partnered with the Center for Research on New International Economic Order (CReNIEO), India, the Fisheries Action Coalition Team (FACT), Cambodia, the Nagenahiru Foundation, Sri Lanka, the EMACE Foundation, Sri Lanka; and the Global Nature Fund of Germany, the project holder.

·         Open Forest Program

·         Reforestation on Degraded Land in Northwest Guangxi

Guangxi Watershed in the Pearl River Basin, one of the richest and most diverse areas in terms of flora in the China, suffered greatly from deforestation since the 1950s. This, in addition to grazing, frequent fires and the use of wood for fuel, caused severe degradation of the original native forest. Despite efforts to restore forests in the 1990s, many areas remained either bare or sparsely populated with trees.

Supported by the provincial and local governments, local farmer communities are working with Kangyuan and Fuyuan forest farms, Xinghuan Forestry Development Company and Luhuan Forestry Development Company to restore the forest by planting mostly native species. Reforestation in this degraded region has played a vital role in terms of biodiversity, soil, and water conservation. The plantations established along the Pearl River, the third longest river in China, support both conservation and watershed management by controlling water erosion, and enhance biodiversity by improving habitats, increasing the connectivity of forests adjacent to nature reserves.

·         Flight of the Gibbon

1.      Flight of the Gibbon has started a reforestation program in Cambodia at our Angkor Archaeological Park site. It began in 2015 by planting 5,000 new trees during the rainy season. When the rains are reliable enough to ensure that they get the water that they need to adapt to the forest there. The APSARA Authority, the body which controls the interests of the Angkor Temples for the people of Cambodia, has made a request accommodating that request planted two tree species around the Angkor complex.

2.      In 2008 began reforestation program by planting 2000 trees in areas near our zipline experience. By 2014, planted more than 30,000 trees in Thailand.

Work is carried out with the local village council. This includes children from the local school. The project doesn’t just to plant trees. But also to increase local awareness of why the forests matter so much to Thailand and the local community and also to enable local people to carry out similar projects by themselves.

Forestation programs in world

·         Reforestation world organisations projects

1.      ADES - Association pour le Développement de l'Energie Solaire Suisse – Madagascar

ADES promotes energy-efficient ovens and solar cookers in Madagascar to fight deforestation. In addition, for each ADES device sold, 2 trees are planted in a project initiated and controlled by ADES. Each device saves, on average, 0.5 hectares of woodland.

2.      Arboles y Futuro

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Creating perspectives in the bolivian Andes - from reforestation to timber products in rural communities and environmental education in elementary schools.

Rural communities, groups with interests in forestry or individual families take part in building the wood chain. They learn to protect trees, cultivate reforestated areas and bring wood and non-wood products to market. Building new forests, they protect at the same time their agricultural areas against soil and wind erosion.

3.      Association NEWTREE

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Soil regeneration - food security - resource management: a long-term and sustainable way out of poverty for rural farmer families

In order to regenerate depleted soils, newTree supports rural farmers in agroforestry. newTree also builds enhanced cooking stoves with women to economize up to 60% of wood. The protection of trees has a huge impact on the lifes of the farmer families.

4.      Desert Tree

5.      Forestever

6.      Foundation Green Ethiopia

7.      Océanium

8.      Zoo Zürich

9.      Taking Root / Enracine

·         Appalachian Regional Reforestation Initiative (ARRI)

In the U.S., under the banner of the Appalachian Regional Reforestation Initiative (ARRI), a plan was recently floated to reforest an initial 175,000 acres of Appalachian Mountains, part of the 1.5 million acres destroyed by mountaintop removal coal mining. The group is looking for $422 million in federal stimulus money to plant 125 million trees, a project they say will not only restore habitat but create 2000 local jobs and improve local water quality.

·         Samboja Lestari project

The Samboja Lestari project in East Kalimantan, Indonesia, is a project of a different nature. It grew out of conservationist Will Smits desire to restore orangutan habitat in Borneo and was supported by $4.5 million in NGO funding.

·         SFM-BAM's Campo Verde project

SFM-BAM's Campo Verde project in Peru became the first commercial reforestation endeavor using native species to be validated under the Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS) and following the AFOLU guidelines for Afforestation and Reforestation. The project, which has planted 919 hectares so far and has a goal of 18,900 hectares, was validated by TÜV SÜD and is also undergoing validation under the Carbon, Community, and Biodiversity Standard (CCB).

·         The Canopy Project

Earth Day Network’s Canopy Project works worldwide to strengthen communities through tree planting. Using agroforestry, sapling distribution and tree care training, empower organizations and citizens to conserve, repair, and restore tree cover to their lands. Earth Day Network targets areas of the world most in need of reforestation, including some of the world’s poorest communities; and land degraded by logging, fires, floods, hurricanes and earthquakes. These projects also focus on environmentally critical areas such the Amazon rainforest and the Boreal Forest.

Trees provide food, energy and income, helping communities achieve long-term economic and environmental sustainability. Trees also filter the air and help reverse the impacts of climate change. In just one year, a mature leafy tree produces as much oxygen as 10 people inhale. Therefor the forestation and prevention of deforestation have to be carry out unless there will be only deserts remain on the Earth.

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