landscapes level planning in liberia: national biodiversity offsets scheme – world bank group
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Why Liberia: Remaining Upper Guinean forest
Liberia 42% Cote d’Ivoire 28% Ghana 16%
Guinea 8% Sierra Leone 5% Togo 1%
Liberia
Cote d’Ivoire Sierra Leone
Burkina FasoMali
Ghana
Guinea
Togo
Benin
The Challenge: Conservation progress has been very slow
Less than 3% is protected
There is a lack of sustainable financing for the protected area network
Innovative solutions are needed, together with strengthening partnerships.
Opportunity: Lenders requirement for biodiversity offsets
Obstacles can be overcome by scaling up through a landscape approach
• Companies may lack resources, yet high transaction costs
• Finding and implementing offsets is challenging
• Long-term protection can be difficult
• Numerous small individual offsets don’t address issues related to habitat fragmentation- perverse outcome would be “islands of conservation
Opportunity: Linking offsets to PPAs
Lake Piso MURBong Mountain PPA
Margibi Mangrove PPA
Cestos-Senkwehn PPA
Grand Kru-River Gee PPA
Grebo Forest PPA
Sapo NP
Gbi PPA
East Nimba NR
West Nimba PPA
Wonegisi PPA
Wologizi PPA
Gola Forest PPA Kpo Mountains PPA
Foya PPA
Source: https://www.ibatforbusiness.org
Kouame et al. (2012)
FDA (2014)
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Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs)
Alliance for Zero Extinction (AZE) sites
Existing Protected Areas
Proposed Protected Areas
No longer part of Protected Area Network
Illustration - Mining Projects in the West and Gola PPA
IMPACTS Several Mining Companies in the north west result
in the loss of X hectares of moist evergreen forest, semi-deciduous forest , and associated species
other Species of Concern (including pygmy hippo, Zebra duiker)
OFFSET into GOLA a national high priority site
Companies contribute to the Gola Proposed Protected Area. This could form part of transboundary complex with Gola National Park Sierra Leone
44 Species of Concern (e.g. pygmy hippo, forest elephant, Zebra duiker, White-necked Picathartes, White-breasted Guineafowl)
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The Process
ESIA Credits Payment
PPAs
Private sector/EPA FDA/partners
Offset Methodology
Independent Trust
Conservation Trust Fund
Securing Liberian Forests through landscapes
REDD+
Biodiversity OffsetsExpanding the Protected Area Network in Liberia
Sustainable agriculture and alternative livelihoods
Land use planning and tenure reform
PES
Capacity building
Governance
Rights and interests
Assessment of forest resources
Conclusions
A National Offset scheme can:
• Optimize conservation area selection
• Addressing cumulative impacts of multiple projects
• Reduce transactions costs
• Increasing governmental/private sector partnership
• Multiple benefits, biodiversity, carbon and other services