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NFI Brazil - Santa Caterina State: results published

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 22:00:00 GMT

Results from the Inventário Florístico Florestal de Santa Catarina are now available on line for download (four volumes). Follow the link to read more about the project's objectives, methodology and results.

NFI field activities launched in the state of Paraná, Brazil

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 23:00:00 GMT

News on the launch of the fieldwork for the Brazilan NFI in the state of Paraná - from the web site of the Serviço Florestal Brasileiro [article in Portuguese]

News clippings on Inventário Florestal Nacional - Brasil - October 2012

Mon, 22 Oct 2012 22:00:00 GMT

A collection of news on the Brasil National Forest Inventory - by the Serviço Florestal Brasileiro.

FAO mission to Brazil for the IFN Project

Thu, 06 Sep 2012 22:00:00 GMT

O Serviço Florestal Brasileiro recebeu entre os dias 22 e 28 de agosto um grupo de especialistas da Organização das Nações Unidas para Agricultura e Alimentação (FAO) sediados na Itália e no Brasil.

Zambia - Speech by the Minister of Lands on ILUA Phase II.

Thu, 30 Aug 2012 22:00:00 GMT

The Minister of Lands, Natural Resources and Environmental Protection, Hon. Wylbur Simuusa MP., delivered a speech on ZNBC Television on the occasion of the launch of the country wide integrated land use field assessment (Phase II). Read the speech here.

FAO helps Tanzania monitor carbon stocks

Tue, 15 May 2012 22:00:00 GMT

FAO is helping scientists and policymakers in Tanzania evaluate how much carbon is stored in forests and forests soils, which will enable them to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. mplemented by the Tanzanian government and FAO and funded by Tanzania and Finland, the $5.6 million project involves 16 field teams which have been working for two years, collecting field data from 3,400 sites in Tanzania. Soil sampling is being carried on 25 percent of these sites.

NFMA Capacity building workshop in Paraguay

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 23:00:00 GMT

A two-days workshop was held in Paraguay with the objective of presenting National Forest Inventory methodology and sharing experiences from other countries. Paraguay is currently developing a REDD working plan. Full article, in Spanish, here: http://activamente.com.py/prensa/fao/capacitacion

Observing Deforestation from Space

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Angola's NFI benefits from FAO's Global Remote Sensing Survey

Taller: Monitoreo y Evaluación Nacional Forestal (MENF), con referencia especial de REDD y Biodiversidad

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 22:00:00 GMT

A workshop on National Forest Monitoring and Assessment and REDD+ was carried out from 29/8 to 2/9 2011 in collaboration with the National Institute for Conservation and Forest Development of Honduras (ICF), USFS, USAID, UNREDD, and FAO. Workshop details and presentations can be downloaded here [5MB]

NFMA and the Brazilian Forest Service join forces for GEF's project on the Sustainable Management of Brazil´s Forest Resources

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 22:00:00 GMT

GEF announced the successful launch of the project “Strengthening National Policy and Knowledge Framework in Support of Sustainable Management of Brazil´s Forest Resources”. This project aims to provide good quality information and analysis on forest resources and land use to improve policies and decision making by stakeholders so as to increase Brazilian forests contribution to national sustainable development. The initiative is designed as a five-year project, mainly to provide technical assistance to develop the core capacities and support the implementation of the NFM&AS. It will be executed with FAO as implementing agency and the Brazilian Forest Service (BFS) as the primary executing partner.

Zambia Remote Sensing Survey 2011

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Zambia Remote Sensing Survey: In 2011, as a part of the second phase of ILUA, global satellite image sampling provided by JRC and FAO was intensified to match the ILUA sample units, aimed at producing the first ever national level historical rates of forest area change for 1990 - 2000 - 2005. Results are in the process of being analyzed. A poster highlights key steps in the coordinated approach in Zambia

Zambia - ILUA II Launched

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 23:00:00 GMT

The Second phase of the Integrated Land Use Assessment of Zambia (ILUA II) was successfully launched on November 2010.

Национальная инвентаризация лесов Кыргызстана показала удовлетворительные результаты

Tue, 21 Dec 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Бишкек (АКИpress) - Национальная инвентаризация лесов Кыргызстана показала удовлетворительные результаты, сообщила на пресс-конференции в агентстве «Кабар» начальник отдела Управления экологического мониторинга и лесоохотоустройства Венера Сураппаева.

По ее словам, мониторинг показал, что леса составляют 5,6% территории республики. «Сейчас была определена площадь лесов, и теперь необходимо определить их границы и принадлежность, кто будет за ними следить», - сказала она.

«При следующей инвентаризации мы сможем сравнить, увеличиваются или уменьшаются площади лесов республики», - отметила она.

Как отметил статс-секретарь Госагентства охраны окружающей среды и лесного хозяйства Абдымитал Ченгожоев, инвентаризация лесов велась последние 2 года. Определялись не только площади лесов, но и качественный и породный состав. Инвентаризация проводилась не по советской методике, используемой ранее, а по новой методике, предложенной донорами

National forest inventory of Kyrgyzstan has shown satisfactory results

Tue, 21 Dec 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Bishkek (AKI) - National forest inventory of Kyrgyzstan has shown satisfactory results, announced at a press conference in agency "Kabar" Head of the Office of Environmental Monitoring and Forest inventory Venera Surappaeva.

According to her, monitoring has shown that forests cover 5.6% of the country. "It has been defined forest area, and now we need to define their boundaries and ownership, who will manage them" - she said.

"The next time we will through the inventory be able to evaluate the trends in increasing or decreasing forest area of the country", - she said.

As noted by the State Secretary of the State Agency of Environment and Forestry Abdymital Chengozhoev, the national forest inventory was carried out during the last 2 years and it assessed not only the forest area, but also its quality and species composition. The inventory was not carried out by the “Soviet method” previously used, but new methods provided by donors (FAO).

Кыргызстане завершена национальная инвентаризация лесов

Tue, 21 Dec 2010 23:00:00 GMT

КАБАР, 17 декабря 2010 года. «В Кыргызстане завершена национальная инвентаризация лесов», - заявил сегодня на пресс-конференции в Агентстве «КАБАР» статс-секретарь Государственного агентства охраны окружающей среды и лесного хозяйства республики Абдымитал Чынгожоев.По его словам, эта работа была начата в 2008 году при поддержке проекта ФАО (продовольственная и сельскохозяйственная организация Объединенных Наций). Каждые 5 лет в нашей стране проводился учет лесного фонда по советской методике. Но этот метод уже устарел. Такая работа в странах СНГ ведется впервые, Кыргызстан попал как пилотная страна и наши сотрудники работали в составе этой группе.«Это очень большая работа. Мы хотели получить достоверные данные о наших лесах, и мы должны думать о завтрашнем сохранении лесов», - отметил статс-секретарь.В результате инвентаризации лесистость составляет 1123045,2 га – 5,26% из них на территории государственного лесного фонда (ГЛФ) и особо охраняемых природных территории (ООПТ) – 846043,4 га или 4,23%, также вне территории ГЛФ и ООПТ -277001,8 га или 1,39%.

Также участники обсудили наболевшую проблему вырубки ёлок в преддверии Нового года. По словам А.Чынгожоева, разрешение дано двум лесхозам Чуйскому и Ысык-Атинскому, которые должны обеспечить ёлками школы и детсады Бишкека.

«Проводятся рейды. По административному кодексу штраф налагается по длине вырубленной елки», - сказал начальник Управления экологического мониторинга и лесоохотустройста Камиль Ашимов

Отметим, что система лесоучетных работ Кыргызстана берет свое начало с 1995 года, но с 2008 года развивается по 2-х уровневой системе, т.е. включается (по аналогии с другими европейскими странами) новое мероприятие учета – национальная инвентаризация лесов (НИЛ). Кроме того, самостоятельно функционирует повыдельное устройство лесов, то есть лесоустройство. (Р.Алмакунова)

Kyrgyzstan has completed a national forest inventory

Tue, 21 Dec 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Kabar, December 17, 2010. "Kyrgyzstan has completed a national inventory of forests", - said at a press conference in agency "Kabar" Mr Abdymital Chyngozhoev, State Secretary of the State Agency of Environment and Forestry of the Republic. According to him, this work was initiated in 2008 with the support of the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations). Every 5 years in our country, we took into account forest on Soviet methods. But that method is outdated. This type of inventory is the first in the Central Asian region, and Kyrgyzstan is the first country to implement it and our people worked together on this. "This is a very big job. We wanted to get reliable data about our forests and we need to think about tomorrow's forest conservation "- said the State Secretary. As a result, the inventory showed 1,123,045.2 ha of forest in Kyrgyzstan (5,26%), of which 846,043.4 hectares (4.23%) were found in the territory of the State Forest Fund (SFF) and Protected Areas (PAs), while outside the territory of SFF and PAs - 277,001.8 hectares (1.39%) were found. Great concern over illegal felling of Christmas trees now just before the holidays was discussed, and according to A. Chyngozhoeva, permissions were given to two forest enterprises in Chui and Issyk-Ata, to provide firs for schools and kindergartens in Bishkek. "According to Forest law, the penalty shall be imposed on the length of harvested trees, "- said the head of the environmental monitoring and forest management Camille Ashimov. Note that the forest inventory system in Kyrgyzstan dates back to 1995, but as of 2008 it has evolved to 2-level system, (by analogy with European countries), to provide national level information through National Forest Inventory (NFI), in addition to the operational planning level of forest information (forest management plan inventory), (R. Almakunova).

NFMA Kyrgyzstan: Project Status / update

Wed, 03 Nov 2010 23:00:00 GMT

The field data collection was completed in 2009 and the remote sensing survey, also completed last year, was carried out within the Swiss-Kyrgyz forestry programme. Recent activities include scrutinising data in the NFMA database and organization of three data processing and analysis training workshops. Currently five national consultants are working on the last phase of the project: finalization of data processing and analysis, report writing (in Russian and later translated into English), printing and organization of final seminar and press conference. The project will be completed by the end of 2010. Details on the Kyrgyzstan NFMA here.

Situation du projet d’évaluation des ressources forestières nationales (IFN) au Congo

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Situation du projet d’évaluation des ressources forestières nationales (IFN) au Congo au 31 décembre 2009: 82 Unités d’échantillonnage (UE), sur un échantillon global de 450, ont déjà fait l’objet d’un traitement complet (collecte des données sur le terrain, saisie et apurement des données). Ce qui correspond à un taux de réalisation du travail de terrain d’environ 18%. La collecte des données biophysiques et socio-économiques se poursuivra dans les 368 unités d’échantillonnage restantes en 2010. La prochaine descente sur le terrain est programmée pour le début du mois de Février 2010, et prévoit la mobilisation de 15 équipes de terrain.

FAO NFMA - FRA Collaboration en Angola

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Collaboration entre Suivi et Evaluation des Ressources Forestières Nationales et l’Enquête par Télédétection : l’exemple de l’Angola

FAO's NFMA and FRA together in Angola

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:00:00 GMT

National Forest Monitoring and Assessment and FRA2010 Remote Sensing Survey programs: collaboration on the Angola example

Nicaragua - Video on IFN now online

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:00:00 GMT

A video (in Spanish) on the Inventario Forestal Nacional is now available online also through FAO's official YouTube channel

Tanzania - Launch of NAFORMA Project

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:00:00 GMT

The NAFORMA launching ‘Data needs and Inventory design workshop’ took place in Dar Es Salaam, from 30th June till 2nd July 2009. The workshop aimed at gathering all the necessary data and information concerning inventory data and user needs for National Forest Assessment (NFA) in Tanzania. The workshop was attended by some 70 participants including (local stakeholders from ministries, NGOs, international and national experts) and finished with concrete recommendations of different working groups, to be used by the local FAO consultant team, deadline end of July 2009. The most important issues were information needs, sampling design and stratification, the possible link with REDD, and land use/ vegetation classification options. Further project implementation was discussed, as well as linkage between different ongoing RS initiatives FRA RSS, GEO, the Norwegian lidar project, UN-REDD and the NAFORMA, to set up a road map what’s to be done in the upcoming months and to identify the actions and actors in the following phases of the project. The UN REDD joint mission will revise the JNP in the end of July.

Peru - initiated activities for NFI project

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:00:00 GMT

During the last week of June 2009, through an informational and promotional workshop, Peru started the activities toward the formulation of the project for a National Forest Monitoring and Assessment. The event was carried out under the leadership of the Head Office of Forestry and Wildlife under the Ministry of Environment. The main stakeholders of the forestry sector participated in the event, among others, regional governments, universities, the institute for studies in the Amazon region of Peru and the private sector were present. It was agreed by all the participants that a high priority should be placed on the assessment and monitoring of natural resources to support decision making , forestry development policies and monitoring GHG in line with the REDD mechanism. Peru is the ninth country in the world in terms of forest area and the second in the Latin American Region. So far, efforts have been made for generating information in the various regions of the country, there is no doubt that it is now necessary to organize and harmonize all these initiatives and establish a system of forest monitoring at national level.

The Gambia - Needs Assessment Workshop

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:00:00 GMT

A Needs Assessment Workshop was held in Banjul, The Gambia on June 17-19. Participants included over fifty people from more then twenty institutions, NGOs, academic and governmental agencies (GBOS, KOMMFORA, National Planning Commission, NARI, University of the Gambia, NACO, Dept. of Water Resources, Dept. of Agriculture, Concern Universal, etc.) During plenary and working group sessions the participants reviewed and discussed the main concern and needs for the National Forest Assessment (NFA) in the Gambia. A list of over 100 issues were categorized in terms of their relative importance. The workshop results went beyond the scope of the NFA therefore it proved to be an excellent exercise for raising a number of issues of concern for the Gambia natural resource and livelihood. All participants actively engaged in the discussion. Techincal meetings were also held as well as a recoinnassance field mission.