This presentation was given on the “Regional workshop on Payment for Environmental Services” on November 20 2014 in Hanoi, Vietnam. The overall aim of the workshop was to enhance the understanding and capacity of policy makers, PES practioners, and researcher communities on the topic of payments for ecosystem services and ecosystem-based approaches and also to increase dialogue between them on latest lessons learned and recommendations for effective, efficient and equitable implementation of PES.
التغيرات المناخية وتاثيرها على القطاع الزراعي المصري
Payments for Environmental Services (PES) programs in Cambodia
1. Payments for Environmental
Services (PES) programs in
Cambodia
Yeang Donal
REDD+ Specialist
Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) –Cambodia Program
E-mail: yeangdonal@gmail.com
www.wcscambodia.org
Regional Workshop on Payment for Environmental Services
24-25 November 2014
Hanoi, Vietnam
3. 1. Bird-nest protection
• Initiated in 2002 by the WCS in
collaboration with the Ministry of
Environment and the Forestry
Administration of the Ministry of
Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
• The globally threatened large
birds found in the Northern Plains
are heavily threatened by human
disturbance and particularly the
collection of nests for eggs and
chicks
Northern Plains
5. • Local people are offered a reward of up to US$5 for
reporting nests
• Protectors receive $1/day for their work and an extra
$1/day worked upon completion if the chicks successfully
fledge
• The bird nest protection program works entirely through
individual contracts; it is not community-based
7. • The ecotourism program aims to
conserve the globally threatened
wildlife through establishing local
village-level tourism enterprises that
directly link revenue received to long-
term species conservation
• $30 per person if all key species are
seen and $15 if only a subset are seen
http://www.samveasna.org/
Sam Veasna Center (SVC) manages wildlife viewing
trips with exclusive access to Wildlife Conservation
Society sites across Cambodia.
9. 3. Ibis Rice
• Initiated in 2007 as an alternative community-based payment
program
• Farmers that keep to the land-use plan and no-hunting rules
• Sell their rice through the village committee responsible for
management of the land-use plan to a marketing association
• Offers preferential prices to the farmers, which are supported
by directly selling the rice to national market centres, bypassing
middlemen who previously monopolized village trade, and
through selling to tourist hotels under the ‘Wildlife-Friendly’
certification system, a new global brand
10. • All profits are shared between the farmers and the village
organizations, after deducting the costs of the association
• Average: $160/farmer
11. 4. Seima Protection Forest REDD+ Project
• Mondulkiri Province
• Started: Jan. 2010
• 180 513 ha
• 20 villages
• VCS and CCBA
• Undergoing validation
12.
13. The key communities are ethnic Bunong (Phnong)
The livelihood value of the reserve
for these communities is very high
– farmland, forest resources and
cultural values
14. Major Community Benefits
The project meets the Gold Standard for exceptional
community benefits:
• Increased benefits from forest and resource protection
• Better land tenure and forest use rights
• Income generation from livelihood activities
• Benefit-sharing from Carbon credit sales
Also:
• Project zone is in a low human development area
• Benefits for people in the lowest category of well-being
• Detailed Monitoring of social impacts on communities
15. Large Biodiversity Benefits
The project meets the Gold Standard for exceptional biodiversity
benefits:
• Better enforcement against illegal activities
• Reduced threats to biodiversity from local communities
• Better regulations and zonation
Also:
• Large concentration of globally threatened species
• Irreplaceable global biodiversity value (most important site for
several key species)
16. Key conclusions
• Bird nests scheme (individual contracts with NGO):
• target only a single outcome (stopping nest collection)
• delivered rapid protection for highly threatened species
• however, didn’t influence other threats to species: land clearance, etc
• or build local support for conservation
• Ibis rice & Ecotourism schemes (village-managed):
• bundled values (species conservation, habitats, food security)
• slower initially to see impact (takes time to build local institutions and
clarify land tenure)
• more significant impacts over longer-term: habitat and species
protection, reductions in immigration, local conflict management
• village management builds local support for conservation
17. • Seima Protection Forest REDD+ Project
• bundled values (species conservation, habitats and community
benefits)
• takes time and resources to build local institutions and clarify
land tenure
• Carbon prices remain low, demand soft and transaction costs
high while commodity prices inexorably rise
19. References
1. Clements, T., et al. (2013). "An evaluation of the effectiveness of a direct payment for
biodiversity conservation: the bird nest protection program in the Northern Plains of
Cambodia." Biological Conservation 157: 50-59.
2. Clements, T., et al. (2010). "Payments for biodiversity conservation in the context of weak
institutions: Comparison of three programs from Cambodia." Ecological Economics 69(6):
1283-1291.
3. Clements, T., et al. (2008). "Tmatboey Community-based Ecotourism Project, Cambodia."
Wildlife Conservation Society, New York.
4. Evans, T., et al. (2012). "Pilot REDD activities in Cambodia are expected to improve access
to forest resource use rights and land tenure for local communities." Lessons about land
tenure, forest governance and REDD+: Case studies from Africa, Asia and Latin America:
73-82.