High Conservation Value areas – a plantation forestry perspective
High Conservation Value areas – a plantation forestry perspective
High Conservation Value areas – a plantation forestry perspective
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What are HCV Areas?<br />
The HCV Concept<br />
They are <strong>areas</strong> that receive priority for conservation because of:<br />
FSC Standard <strong>–</strong> HCV Forests<br />
•Forest <strong>areas</strong> containing globally, regionally or<br />
nationally significant concentrations of biodiversity<br />
values and/<br />
•or large landscape level forests where viable<br />
populations of most/all naturally occurring species<br />
exist in natural patterns of distribution and abundance;<br />
Sappi interpretation HCV Areas<br />
Ecological/species considerations<br />
- Biodiversity “hotspots”<br />
- Rare, threatened species<br />
- Serve as corridors<br />
Size<br />
- Very large <strong>areas</strong> conserving a variety of<br />
habitats<br />
Water conservation requirements<br />
•Forests that provide basic ecological services in<br />
critical situations (e.g. water quality or flow, protection<br />
against erosion or natural disasters such as cyclones<br />
or hurricanes, pollinators);<br />
•Forests fundamental to meeting basic economic or<br />
bio-physiological needs of local communities or critical<br />
to local community cultural identity.<br />
- Important streams for downstream users<br />
Visual /social considerations<br />
- Waterfalls,vleis, recreation, expansive<br />
grasslands