BioCF Kenya Greenbelt Movement

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Development objective

In 2006 and 2007 the project will reforest 3,000 hectares of degraded forest lands in the Aberdare Range and South Mt. Kenya Regions. The Aberdare Range and Mt. Kenya are two of Kenya's five 'water towers' that act as catchment areas for the country's major rivers. As well, these regions, some 160 km from Nairobi, are heavily populated. In the 1980s forest degradation was at its highest due to logging of indigenous tree species, charcoal burning and residential cultivation. After clear felling, in many cases the lands, were converted to agriculture - either for coffee, tea or the Shamba system - which includes a rotation of grazing and subsistence agriculture. Lands that were clear felled and not converted to agriculture tend to regenerate to low bushes and grasses rather than returning to natural forest. Pressure for fuel wood and charcoal production has continued to degrade the remaining forests. Starting in 1977, the Green Belt Movement (GBM) has been changing the local population's attitudes to forest exploitation through training and providing the technology, funding and knowledge for tree planting on private lands. Since 1997, GBM has been focusing on planting indigenous species and fruit trees on public lands or private lands with high community access. The goal is to use the forest in a sustainable manner for a variety of products including fuel wood, charcoal, timber, medicinal and other uses. The Aberdare Range and south Mt. Kenya region are areas that GBM has a well established network of tree nurseries, interested groups and outreach programmes. As well, in these areas, GBM has an excellent working relationship with Kenya's Forest Service. Targeted areas will be: 1. degraded forest land in sensitive environments, such as steep slopes and catchment areas of the Tana River within the Aberdare and Mt. Kenya Reserve Forests (gazetted) and on Trust Lands surrounding the Reserve Forests; and 2. private lands with community access, high community social value and visibility such as school and church yards. Under the project, communities will form Community Forest Associations (CFAs) which are given access, traditional and other rights (carbon) to sustainable management of Reserve Forests and Trust Lands with submission of a management plan. The management plan will last the duration of the project. Each planting will be sponsored and planted by a CFA with input from the Forest Service. The CFAs will allow GBM to act on their behalf to quantify, and trade the carbon sequestered by the planting. The project plans to plant 1,500 hectares in 2006 and 2007 suitable for generating emission reductions under definitions and modalities prescribed by the Kyoto Protocol and Marrakech Accords. This represents 50% of GBM's planting capacity and an expansion of GBM operations from 1,000 hectares per year to 2,500 hectares per year. The remaining 50% of capacity will be used to conduct plantings, funded by other donors (depending on funding), on lands not suitable for generating emission reductions under definitions and modalities prescribed by the Kyoto Protocol and Marrakech Accords. This would include lands deforested after 1990 and enrichment plantings on degraded, slowly regenerating and high graded forests. As well, as part of the project, plantings in 2005 will be reviewed to assess their eligibility under the climate change convention An outcome of the BioCF funding will be the infrastructure for planning, implementing and monitoring future carbon sequestration projects by GBM in the Aberdare Range, south Mt. Kenya region and other regions that GBM has already developed tree planting networks

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