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National Forest Monitoring Activities in Papua New Guinea The Seventh GEOSS Asia-Pacific Symposium “Benefits for Society from GEOSS evolution toward addressing Sustainable Development Goals” 26 th -28 th May 2014, Tokyo, Japan Elizabeth Kaidong Forest Policy and Planning Directorate Papua New Guinea Forest Authority

CONTENT  Current Status of Forest  Existing Database and resource within Papua New Guinea Forest Authority  Forest Resources  REDD+ Pilot Sites  National Forest Monitoring Projects/Activities 1. Capacity Development on Forest Resource Monitoring for Addressing Climate Change in Papua New Guinea 2. Technical Support to the Papua New Guinea Forest Authority to implement a multi-purpose National Forest Inventory  Way Forward

Current Status of Forest  Vast forest areas which are inaccessible (rugged terrain, remoteness) and high cost of logistics; Landform : Rugged terrain, mountainous, lowland and limestone (4 largest islands and 600 small islands); pristine forest  Different forest types (lowland to Montane Forest and specific forest types found only in certain areas of the country). Complex forest structure and composition (different forest types found in one survey area).  97% of forest traditional owned and only 3% ownership by the state (Government). It would be difficult to develop any area without the full consent and proper awareness given to the people.  Potential threats apart from logging activities are expansion of commercial agriculture (oil palm), mining, oil and gas exploration.

Existing Database and resource within Papua New Guinea Forest Authority  Mandated to maintain and manage the forests and plantations (monitoring).  Forest classes of 63 types (17 vegetation types including forest plantation)but now reduced to 21 land classes  Forest Inventory is only conducted on forest areas which is identified as potential timber stock that is acquired as a forest management area (FMA) or timber permit areas (TA).  There has not been any National Forest Inventory conducted since a survey done in 1972 .  Forest Inventory Processing System (FIPS) was first developed and used in 1986; processing data collected for natural forest (improved and updated).  Forest Inventory and Mapping System (FIMS) has not been updated since 1996 (improved and updated). The Forest Inventory Mapping (FIM) system has been developed to provide a consistent and country wide set of information on the type and extent of the forest resource and of its current use by the forest industry in PNG.  Existing forest related data is not sufficient for carbon estimation (Permanent sample plots; 120 & other studies conducted in the country).  22 Provincial Forest Offices in the country apart the Forestry Headquarters

Forest Resources TOTAL LAND AREA 46.4 mill ha NON FOREST AREA TOTAL FOREST AREA OTHER AREAS 9.2 mill ha 27.1 mill ha 10.1 mill ha PROTECTION FOREST PRODUCTION FOREST RESERVE FOREST 1.8 mill ha 14.6 mill ha 10.7 mill ha REMAINING FOREST UNDER CONCESSIONS FUTURE POTENTIAL PRODUCTION FOREST 5.5 mill ha 9.1 mill ha Sherman P., et al. 2008.The State of the Forests of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby, University Of Papua New Guinea

REDD+ Pilot Sites in Papua New Guinea (5 sites) Easily accessible by the general public Forest Different Plans in ownership Place types Sandaun East Sepik WNB EHP Fairly MBP Different distributed forest/ across all vegetation 4 regions types Different Altitudinal zones

National Forest Monitoring Projects/Activities 1. Capacity Development on Forest Resource Monitoring for Addressing Climate Change in Papua New Guinea - Funded and supported: Japanese Government (Japanese Grant Aid and JICA Technical Cooperation) - Period: 3 years (March 2011-March 2014) 2. Technical Support to the Papua New Guinea Forest Authority to implement a multi-purpose National Forest Inventory - Funded and supported: UNREDD Programme, European Union (EU) and Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) -Period: 3 years (October 2013-September 2016) - Implementing agency: Papua New Guinea Forest Authority and the Papua New Guinea University of Technology (Forestry Department) - Supporting Agency: Office of Climate Change and Development, forest Industries Association and Environmental NGOs

1.Capacity Development on Forest Resource Monitoring for Addressing Climate Change in Papua New Guinea (1) Purpose and Outputs of the Project Grant Aid JICA Technical Cooperation Purpose: Contribute to forest base map Purpose: To address climate change, the capacity development and forest state monitoring for of relevant institutions in PNG is enhanced for the addressing sustainable forest management and monitoring of nation-wide forest resource climate change. including carbon stock. Expected Outputs 1. Nation-wide forest base map is 1. Satellite images, GIS-related improved using remote sensing equipment, Equipment for ground technology truthing and others 2. National Level forest resource database is improved 2. Trainings (GIS-related equipment, 3. To address climate change, the processing of Remote Sensing data & monitoring system of forest resource applying them in Forest Inventory. including carbon stock exchange is improved

1.Capacity Development on Forest Resource Monitoring for Addressing Climate Change in Papua New Guinea (2) Status of Expected Outputs

1.Capacity Development on Forest Resource Monitoring for Addressing Climate Change in Papua New Guinea (3) Status of Expected Output 2: PNG Forest Database Outputs • Forest Inventory Mapping System (FIMS) provides maps such as Concession area, Logged over area, forest areas with physical limitations (slope, altitude, inundation, karst, mangrove) , and FMU (Forest mapping unit is an area of forest or other vegetation) , etc. • Forest Inventory Processing (FIPS) is a simple computer system to process • FIMS also provides merchantable forest volume in each province PNG inventory assessments of natural forest. and in each concession area. •FIPS basically stores Field survey information (topography, area of each block in hectares, date of survey, etc) and Data on each tree surveyed (strip number, plot number, forest type, species code, diameter, length, form; based on straightness of the bole, plot type) and generate reports; Assessment summary (“stocking per ha”, Basal area per ha and Gross Volume per ha) and species listing in order of volume representation in the assessment (information retrieved from field book data). SQL (Structured Query Language): It makes it possible to retrieve specific data and make original reports by using MS Access

JICA-PNGFA PROJECT for Capacity Development on Forest Resource Monitoring for Addressing Climate Change 1.Capacity Development on Forest Resource Monitoring for Addressing Climate Change in Papua New Guinea (4) Status of Expected Output 3: Forest Monitoring including Carbon Stock Outputs Field measurement conducted in two forest Calculations done based on the Forest BaseMap Version types in the Suau REDD+ Pilot for Above 1 for Above Ground Living Biomass/Above Ground Living Ground Biomass and trial training of Below Carbon Stock and Below Ground Living Biomass/Below Ground Biomass in one province with some Ground Living Carbon Stock for all forest types results.

1.Capacity Development on Forest Resource Monitoring for Addressing Climate Change in Papua New Guinea (5) Satellite Imagery and Software Purpose Cloud Compensation: Forest BaseMap ALOS/PALSAR 2010 (Radar) Change Detection (Forest Monitoring) RapidEye 2010 (Optical) Development of Forest BaseMap (Cloud Compensation; 5m resolution for the whole country (1000+ tiles) ALOS/PALSAR 2007 (Radar) Change Detection (Forest Monitoring) LiDAR/GeoSAR (Airborne) Acquired for only area of interest (selected REDD+ Pilot site; Canopy Volume and GeoSar for terrain Change Detection: Forest Monitoring illumination eCognition Object Based Classification for the Broad Forest Classification, Land use and others and Mass production ArcGIS 10 (license) and server To allow the application of running the forest base map ,other maps and database. ERDAS Used by a University for the students undertaking studies under the Survey and Cartography field.

2.Technical Support to the Papua New Guinea Forest Authority to implement a multi-purpose National Forest Inventory (1) Project overall objective : is to contribute to the implementation of PNG's policies and measures for climate change mitigation. Purpose: is to support the PNG Forest Authority to implement a continuous and multi-purpose National Forest Inventory (NFI) as part of a National Forest Monitoring System that will fulfil the UNFCCC Cancun and Copenhagen decision. Multi-purpose  PNG has taken a double sampling approach : Inventory: Botanical Sampling, carbon - Phase 1: Based on Remote Sensing data pools (Deadwood- analysis, Collect Earth Open foris and Google standing/fallen, Earth tool soils, litter), Non Timber Products, -Phase 2: Based on field plot clusters on a random Biodiversity (flora restricted sampling design & fauna)