Forestry Administration

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KINGDOM OF CAMBODIANation Religion King
Methods currently used in Cambodia for forest
inventory
Prepared by Mr KHUN VATHANA Assistant Head,
Forestry Administration, Focal
Point on REDD
(khun_vathana_at_yahoo.com)
Forestry Administration Ha Noi,
3-5-Nov-2008
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Contents

• Introduction
• Forestry Management in Cambodia
• Forest Inventory
• More detail on Compartment Level Inventory
• Standard
• Expected Results
• Climate Change working Group
• REDD and AR-CDM Project in Cambodia

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Introduction

• Total country areas 181,035 Sq. Km.
• There are 24 provinces and cities, 185 districts,
  1,621 communes, and 14,073
  village
• Total population 13,388,910 (General Population
  Census of Cambodia 2008)
• Population density 75/Sq. Km.
• Annual population growth rate 1.54
• Total forest areas 10,730,781 ha (59.09), 2006

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FORESTRY MANAGEMENT IN CAMBODIA

• There are five objectives within the national
  goals regarding forest resources are
• Conservation and sustainable management of forest
  resources to achieve a maximum contribution
  to socio-economic development of the country.
• The remaining forest resources of the country
  shall be considered as Permanent Forest State and
  managed in a sustainable way.
• Within the context of conservation and
  sustainable forest management initiatives, a
  maximum involvement of the private sector and
  participation of the local population shall be
  achieved in order to ensure food security,
  poverty reduction and socio-economic development.
• A wide range of coordinated multi-stakeholder
  processes shall be implemented to enable the
  harmonization of the different perceptions,
  interests and objectives of the various forest
  interest groups at all levels.
• To continue to support forestation of arable land
  and to protect those trees for the development of
  forest resources.

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Forest Inventory

• The National Inventory Standards concern all
  levels of inventory
• Describe the procedures to be applied at each
  level
• The forest planning process in Cambodia includes
  3 management levels. At each level, a planning
  document is prepared, based on a specific field
  inventory

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Stages of the Forest Management Process in
Cambodia
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Strategic Level Inventory

• Providing a general evaluation of the forest
  resource and indication on the capability of the
  forest to be sustainable managed.
• By using a random inventory, to calculate an
  Estimated Available Annual Yield (EAAY) in order
  to be able to allocate the different forest types
  to 5 year compartments having the same EAAY.

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Compartment Level Inventory

• The compartment inventory represents the core
  element of the Medium Term Planning.
• A systematic inventory covering 1 to 5 of the
  compartment area.
• Data relating to the number of trees, the
  information will used to assess the resource
  harvestable during the first and the second
  cutting cycle, to calculate the Annual Available
  Cut (AAC) and to delineate the 5 yearly coupes.

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Coupe Level Inventory

• The Purpose of an inventory at this level is to
• Assess the harvestable resource for the first
  cutting cycle Coupe by inventorying 100 of their
  source
• Allow the preparation of the Annual Operational
  Plan and the Detailed Block Plans (Cf. Planning
  Manual and Code of Practice) and especially the
  demarcation on map of the blocks
• Produce maps of the Coupe in order to plan the
  activities on the Coupe, repartition of the
  resource, constraints, human activities, sites of
  social interest

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Compartment Level Inventory Standards
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Objectives

• Assess the resource harvestable during the first
  cutting cycle in the Compartment and in the
  individual Coupes.
• Assess the resource harvestable during the
  second cutting cycle in the Compartment and
  assess the sustainability.
• Allow the demarcation on map of the 5 Coupes,
  containing the same harvestable volume
• Collect and analyse information on resource for
  the following cutting cycles

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Objectives

• Collect and analyse information on biodiversity
  ecosystems, tree species, fauna.
• Collect past logging tracks
• Characterise each forest type volume, species
• To map the Compartment resource repartition,
  constraints (rivers, swamps, slopes, rocks),
  human activities

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Data to be collected
Trees
Dbh gt 60 cm
First cycle
30 cm lt Dbh lt 60 cm
Second cycle
Other cycles
10 cm lt Dbh lt 30 cm
All species 
Assessment of quality and of NTFP (mostly resin)
harvesting
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Data to be collected

• Topographic features
• Human (local) activities
• Past logging tracks
• Fauna indicators for emblematic species
• GPS coordinates (for location of the plots)

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Inventory design
Inventory on the harvestable area of the
compartment
Statistic inventory
Inventory plots laid out with their central axis
along transects
Parallel transects
2 stages - transect - inventory
of trees
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Inventory design
Sampling intensities and Distance between
transects calculated by each concessionaire,
based on the strategic inventory data. Sampling
intensity for trees above 60 cm will be between 1
and 5.
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Forest Concession Management and Control Pilot
Project
Compartment Level InventoryInventory standards
Forest Inventory Training
Inventory design
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Forest Concession Management and Control Pilot
Project
Compartment Level InventoryInventory standards
Forest Inventory Training
Requirements on precision
Trees
10 at 95 confidence interval for harvestable
volume for Group 1 Group 2, at coupe level
DBH above 60 cm
10 at 95 confidence interval for standing
volume on Group 1 to 3 species, at Compartment
level
DBH between 30 and 60 cm
DBH between 30 and 60 cm
DBH between 30 and 60 cm
10 at 95 confidence interval for the number of
trees for all the species, at Compartment level
DBH between 10 and 30 cm
DBH between 10 and 30 cm
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CV and standard error calculation
Assesment of sampling intensity required
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Table to be provided with the sampling plan, for
each inventory unit
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Expected Results

• Ensure that permanent forest estate is managed to
  conserve and protect natural biodiversity,
  ecosystem function, and important forest services
  such as soil conservation and watershed
  regulation
• Develop a forest planning system that will lead
  to balanced, sustainable and technically
  competent management of the permanent forest
  estate
• Ensure that tenures for forest harvest are in the
  public interest and meet long-term integrated
  resource management objectives, and that the
  process by which tenures are granted and managed
  in fair and transparent.
• Ensure full consultation, cooperation and
  coordination in forest management activities
  between all government agencies whose mandates
  and responsibilities related to the forest
• Ensure regular consultation with, and
  participation by, local communities and other
  relevant stakeholders in the management of the
  permanent forest estate
• Protect, and maintain rights of access to, those
  forest resources of economic, subsistence and
  spiritual value to indigenous and
  forest-dependent communities.

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Climate Change Working Group of Forestry
Administration

• 06 member
• 05 Components
• - Manager Unit 01 Person
• - Coordinator and training 02 People
• - Focal Point on REDD 01 Person
• - Focal Point on AR-CDM 01 Person
• - Community Forestry 01 Person

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CFIs REDD Project in Oddar Meanchey (Project
started)
CFIs REDD Project in Oddar Meanchey (Project
started)
CFIs REDD Project in Oddar Meanchey (Project
started)
Small Scale A/R CDM Project (Project Idea Note in
progress)
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Project Area
Chi Phat

• Located in Koh Kong Province
• 225 Km West of Phnom Penh

• Land Use Grassland
• Project Area 320 ha
• Protection zone under FA control

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Oddar Meanchey Community Forestry Carbon Offset
Project (Project started)

• In may 2008, the project was officially endorsed
  by H.E.Prime Minister Hun Sen through Sar Chhor
  Nor 699 which confirms the high-level commitment
  of the RGC

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• KINGDOM OF CAMBODIA
• Nation - Religion - King
• COUNCIL OF MINISTERS
• No. 699 Sar.CHor.Nor
• Phnom Penh, 26 May 2008
• DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER, MINISTER IN CHARGE OF
  COUNCIL OF MINISTERS
• INFORM TO
• - H.E Senior Minister, Minister of Ministry of
  Environment
• - H.E Minister of Ministry of Agriculture,
  Forestry and Fisheries
• - H.E TY SOKHUN, Adviser to Samdech Akka
  Moha Sena Padei Techo HUN SEN,
• Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia, and
  the Chief of Forestry Administration.
• Subject Request the support from Samdech Akka
  Moha Sena Padei Techo HUN SEN, Prime Minister of
  the Kingdom of Cambodia on Forestry Carbon
  Credit Project in the Kingdom of Cambodia.
• Reference - Letter dated on 28 April 2008 of
  Dr. Mark Poffenberger, Executive Director of
  Community Forestry International (CFI).
• - Letter dated on 5 May 2008 of
  H.E Ty Sokhun, Adviser of Samdech Akka Moha Sena
  Padei Techo HUN SEN, Prime Minister of the
  Kingdom of Camb
• - Decision dated 8 May 2008 of
  Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo HUN SEN, Prime
  Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia.
• As stated in the above subject and references,
  the Council of Ministers would like to inform
  Your Excellencies that the Royal Government of
  Cambodia (RGC)
• decides to support the forest carbon credit
  project in Cambodia as follow

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• 3 Have a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)
  between CFI and the RGC, represented by FA that
  would allow CFI to identify buyers, and explore
  terms and carbon prices subject to the review and
  approval of the RGC. The Royal Government of
  Cambodia decides in the MOU that revenue from
  selling Carbon in the Carbon Credit for community
  forestry Project will be used to
• Improve the quality of the forest
• Maximize the benefits flows to local community
  who is participating in the project
• Study potential sites for the new forest carbon
  credit REDD project
• 4 Revenue from forest carbon REDD project will be
  channeled through the Technical Working Group on
  Forestry and Environment (TWG-FE) during the
  first five years of the project.
• 5 Delegates the Forestry Administration as the
  representative of RGC to execute the sale of
  Cambodia forest carbon with consultation within
  the Technical Working Group on Forestry
  Environment (TWG-FE), as necessary.
• As stated above, may Your Excellencies
  understand and follow the instructions.
• Please accept, Your Excellencies, the assurance
  of my sincere consideration.
  Minister of Council Ministers
• Secretary of State
• Signature and stamp Prak Sokhon
• Copy to
• Cabinet of Prime Minister
• Council for Development of Cambodia
• Forestry Administration
• Community Forestry International
• TWG-FE
• Documentation.

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• First Cambodian Avoided Deforestation
  Project
• 12 Community Forestry Groups
• 55 villages
• Project Area 60 477 ha

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• Provincial deforestation rate have an average of
  1.6 percent annually over the period 2002-2006
  Deforestation Hot Spot

• Avoiding a loss of forest of 1.6 per year would
  provide 343 974 tCO2 each year for the whole
  project area.

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Carbon revenues on a Voluntary Market

• will be used to
• Improve the forest quality
• Provide maximum benefits to local communities
  which participate to the project activities
• Study the potential area for new REDD projects in
  Cambodia

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WCSs REDD Project in Mondulkiri Province (in
development)

• Seima Biodiversity Conservation Area (SBCA)
  created in 2002
• Project Area from 187700 ha to 305000 ha ?

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Other

• Cambodia already send the R-PIN to FCPF (
  Forest Carbon Partnership Facility ) on
  29-Sep-2008.

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