CIFOR at IUCN World Conservation Congress

Quantifying forest benefits for pro-poor conservation at scale

This Knowledge Café is for conservation practitioners, researchers and policy makers who are interested in understanding the role of tropical forests in rural livelihoods – and the socioeconomic impacts of conservation – through the use of large-scale data sets. Participants will gain: information, analyses and tools for quantifying forest benefits; an understanding of trade-offs in choosing assessment methods; and potential partnerships for forest benefit quantification and impact evaluation.

Meet and Greet with the Collaborative Partnership on Sustainable Wildlife Management

Meet and greet with members of the Collaborative Partnership on Sustainable Wildlife Management (CPW) to discover our work and mission, and hear about our latest work on Sustainable Wildlife Management.

The event will be the occasion to raise awareness on the multiple and cross-sectoral dimensions of wildlife management, highlighting practical tools and analysis carried out by CPW members. There will also be an opportunity to share experiences on the sustainable use and conservation of terrestrial wildlife in all biomes.

Terry Sunderland, CIFOR

Restoration of landscapes with forests and trees: Highlights from China’s forest restoration programs and the USDA Environmental Quality Improvement Program

As countries around the world rise to the Bonn Challenge of restoring 150 million ha by 2020, we turn to two of the global giants in landscape restoration for insights on program design and outcomes. What are the institutional capacities and financial resources required to implement and monitor landscape restoration on the scale of China and the US? What can we learn from experiences in (sub)-tropical agricultural lands in Hawaii and SW China?

Louis Putzel
CIFOR

Role of Private Sector in Biodiversity and Conservation

Terry Sunderland
CIFOR

“Integrated Landscape Approach: critical issues and perspectives”

Working together to build a diverse constituency for conserving global biodiversity

Our Knowledge Café session will bring together organizations pioneering biodiversity mainstreaming and integration in a discussion about how we can better work together to engage diverse constituencies. We will explore the best opportunities for engaging constituencies including fora, planning processes, organizations and individuals and develop an action plan to guide our collaboration going forward.

Terry Sunderland, CIFOR

Confidence in conservation – Demonstrating impacts and creating market confidence through accessing ecosystem service markets

This session will examine conservation outcomes from projects that have used finance from ecosystem service markets; describe the future market potential for ecosystem services for conservation; and explore how third-party certification can be used to increase market confidence, demonstrate short- and long-term impacts, and ensure that environmental and social safeguards are being met.

Sini Savilaakso, CIFOR

Louis Putzel CIFOR

Beyond Protected Areas

This session will explore and evaluate various approaches that have been applied to secure buffer zone forest around Protected Areas in Indonesia. These would include conservation and development schemes, including ICDPs, Payment for Ecosystem Services (water-based and REDD+), Ecosystem Restoration Concessions, Village/Community Forest, High Conservation Value Forest, Conservation Easement, and others scheme that might applied. These are the example of questions we will explore in the session. Interaction and learning of successes and failures from the participants is expected to enrich each knowledge and understanding of this complex issue.

Terry Sunderland, CIFOR