scholarly journals Effectiveness of China's National Forest Protection Program and nature reserves

2015 ◽  
Vol 29 (5) ◽  
pp. 1368-1377 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guopeng Ren ◽  
Stephen S. Young ◽  
Lin Wang ◽  
Wei Wang ◽  
Yongcheng Long ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nature Reserves ◽  
National Forest ◽  
Forest Protection

scholarly journals The Effectiveness of China’s National Forest Protection Program and National-level Nature Reserves, 2000 to 2010

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guopeng Ren ◽  
Stephen S. Young ◽  
Lin Wang ◽  
Wei Wang ◽  
Yongcheng Long ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Forest Cover ◽  
National Level ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Canopy Cover ◽  
Nature Reserves ◽  
National Forest ◽  
Natural Forests ◽  
Forest Protection ◽  
Deforestation Rate ◽  
Deforestation Rates

There is profound interest in knowing the degree to which China’s institutions are capable of protecting its natural forests and biodiversity in the face of economic and political change. China’s two most important forest protection policies are its National Forest Protection Program (NFPP) and its National-level Nature Reserves (NNRs). The NFPP was implemented in 17 provinces starting in the year 2000 in response to deforestation-caused flooding. We used MODIS data (MOD13Q1) to estimate forest cover and forest loss across mainland China, and we report that 1.765 million km2or 18.7% of mainland China was covered in forest (12.3%, canopy cover > 70%) and woodland (6.4%, 40% ≤ canopy cover < 70%) in 2000. By 2010, a total of 480,203 km2of forest+woodland was lost, amounting to an annual deforestation rate of 2.7%. The forest-only loss was 127,473 km2, or 1.05% annually. The three most rapidly deforested provinces were outside NFPP jurisdiction, in the southeast. Within the NFPP provinces, the annual forest+woodland loss rate was 2.26%, and the forest-only rate was 0.62%. Because these loss rates are likely overestimates, China appears to have achieved, and even exceeded, its NFPP target of reducing deforestation to 1.1% annually in the target provinces. We also assemble the first-ever polygon dataset for China’s forested NNRs (n=237), which covered 74,030 km2in 2000. Conventional unmatched and covariate-matching analyses both find that about two-thirds of China’s NNRs exhibit effectiveness in protecting forest cover and that within-NNR deforestation rates are higher in provinces that have higher overall deforestation.

Individual-level performance of nature reserves in forest protection and the effects of management level and establishment age

2019 ◽  
Vol 233 ◽  
pp. 23-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haiwei Zhao ◽  
Ruidong Wu ◽  
Yongcheng Long ◽  
Jinming Hu ◽  
Feiling Yang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nature Reserves ◽  
Forest Protection ◽  
Management Level ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Level Performance

scholarly journals Plant protection and forest protection – the development of legislation and forest protection services in Poland

2018 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elżbieta Karmiłowicz ◽  
Iwona Skrzecz ◽  
Ewa Matyjaszczyk
Keyword(s):  
Plant Protection ◽  
Plant Protection Products ◽  
National Forest ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Aerial Application ◽  
Forest Protection ◽  
Multi Stage ◽  
History Of ◽  
Prevention Methods ◽  
The Eu

Abstract The paper presents the history of legal changes regarding forest protection in Poland and the development of forest protection services Poland’s accession to the European Union in 2004 has affected the marketing and the use of plant protection products (PPPs) in the country. The implementation of the EU legislation (Directive 91/414/EEC) has resulted in a decline in the assortment of pesticides registered for use in agriculture, and in forestry. This situation resulted from the limited interest of producers in placing PPPs on the market. Furthermore, limitations in the aerial application of PPPs have been introduced, which has consequences for the protection of the forest, where aerial treatments are often the only way to reduce the number of pests. On the other hand, the introduction of integrated pest management (also in forestry) confirmed the adequacy of activities carried out in the State Forest National Forest Holding, where, for many decades, the prevention methods have been used to increase the resistance of stands and the multi-stage Decision Support System (DSS) is used to select the optimal protective method.

scholarly journals Spatiotemporal Contribution of Participants in Patrolling Efforts from a Forest Station, Pu Hu Nature Reserve, Vietnam

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (23) ◽  
pp. 13210
Author(s):  
Hai Nguyen Dinh ◽  
Dong Le Khac ◽  
Men Duong Thi ◽  
Nha Thi Huynh Nguyen ◽  
Hue Ha Thi Thu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Nature Reserve ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Resource Conservation ◽  
Nature Reserves ◽  
Forest Protection ◽  
Sustainable Conservation

Understanding the contributions of participants from management practices and those from the local community to protected areas (PAs) as nature reserves, is crucial for forest protection and resource conservation. Thus, empirical studies have usually investigated whether patrolling has significantly improved forest protection action. Many previous studies have exhaustively examined the contributions to forest protection by rangers or local persons, but there has been little research on the contribution of both sides to patrol efforts with separate consideration given to each. This paper explores insights into the patrol efforts in the Nam Tien forest station. The total number of patrollers, walking distances, and working days across years were significantly different between the ranger and local person patrol groups. There was a considerable variation in the number of patrollers (Z = 2.02; p < 0.01), distance (Z = 2.45; p < 0.01) and working days (Z = 2.37; p < 0.01) between rangers and local persons related to monthly patrolling. For the traditional patrols in the various PAs, it is shown that, for long-term forest protection, local persons patrolling should be considered more, in order to achieve the sustainable conservation.

Investigation of Hungarian forest health condition with special respect to climate change

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 164-176
Author(s):  
Zoltán Pödör ◽  
László Kolozs ◽  
György Solti ◽  
László Jereb
Keyword(s):  
Monitoring Program ◽  
Forest Health ◽  
Health Condition ◽  
Forest Monitoring ◽  
National Forest ◽  
Forest Protection ◽  
Significant Relationships ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Special Respect ◽  
Crown Dieback

The defoliation and crown dieback data of trees are typical indicators of forest health condition. In Hungary the data are collected in the frame of the national forest monitoring program and based on Forest Protection Network from 1987. In the paper these two data lines are investigated: (i) trend analysis was performed in respect of the examined time period according to different criteria, (ii) the relationships between healthy features and basic and derived climatic variables were examined by correlation analysis. The paper gives a general overview of the Hungarian forest health condition. Detectable general trends and statistically significant relationships are defined for all examined species and for 12 groups (subsets) of species. The received general results help us to determine further directions of deeper and more detailed investigations.

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