MAPPING FOREST LANDSCAPE RESTORATION OPPORTUNITIES IN GHANA 1
Assessment of Forest Landscape Restoration Assessing and Capitalizing on the Potential to Potential In Ghana To Contribute To REDD+ Enhance Forest Carbon Sinks through Forest Strategies For Climate Change Mitigation, Landscape Restoration while Benefitting Poverty Alleviation And Sustainable Forest Biodiversity Management FLR Opportunities/Potential in Ghana 2
PROCESS National Assessment of Off-Reserve Areas Framework Method Regional Workshops National National National - Moist Stakeholders’ Assessment of validation - Transition Forest Reserves Workshop Workshop - Savannah - Volta NREG, FIP, FCPF, etc 3
INCEPTION WORKSHOP Participants informed about the project Institutional commitments to collaborate with the project secured The concept of forest landscape restoration communicated and understood Forest condition scoring proposed for reserves within and outside the high forest zone 4
National Assessment of Forest Reserves 5
RESERVES AND NATIONAL PARKS IN GHANA Burkina Faso & V BAWKU ZEBILLA BONGO NAVRONGO TUMU & V & V & V V & SANDEMA BOLGATANGA V & V & LAWRA V & JIRAPA GAMBAGA N & V V & NADAWLI WALEWALE & V V & WA & V GUSHIEGU V & SABOBA SAVELUGU V & V & YENDI TOLON TAMALE & V & V V & ZABZUGU & V DAMONGO BOLE & V V & BIMBILA & V Republic of Togo SALAGA V & NKWANTA Republic & V of KINTAMPO Cote D'ivoire & V KETE-KRACHI ATEBUBU WENCHI KWAME DANSO V & & V & V V & DROBO TECHIMAN NKORANZA KADJEBI & V V & V & BEREKUM & V JASIKAN V & EJURA SUNYANI V & & V DORMAA AHENKRO V & V & HOHOE BECHEM & V V & DONKORKROM TEPA KPANDU KENYASE NO. 1 V & OFINSO & V AGONA AKROFOSO & V V & V & V & EFFIDUASE MANKRANSO GOASO V & V & & V & V KUMASI NKAWIE MAMPONG ASHANTI V & EJISU V & HO V & JUASO MPRAESO & V KUNTENASE & V V & & V & V MANSO NKWANTA V & BIBIANI BEKWAI V & & V & V BEGORO NEW ABIREM JUABESO & V & V & V ATIMPOKU SEFWI WIAWSO OBUASI KIBI & V & V AKATSI V & SOMANYA KADE & V KOFORIDUA DENU NEW EDUBIASE V & ODUMASE KROBO ADIDOME & V SUHUM & V V & & V V & SOGAKOPE & V & V DUNKWA-ON-OFIN V & AKIM ODA & V KETA V & AKROPONG AKWAPIM & V DODOWA & V ASAMANKESE & V ENCHI NSAWAM ASANKRAGUA V & & V ADA FOAH & V & V V & AMASAMAN V & ASSIN FOSU V & V & TEMA MUNICIPAL AREA TWIFO PRASO BREMAN ASIKUMA V & ACCRA & V AGONA SWEDRU & V V & & V AJUMAKO V & ABURA DUNKWA WINNEBA Towns TARKWA V & APAM V & V & V & & V SALTPOND National Park DABOASE V & ELMINA Forest Reserve & V HALF ASSINI CAPE COAST & V & V a e V & n Waterbody u i SEKONDI G AGONA NKWANTA AXIM & V f o & V f G u l V & 6
FOREST TYPES IN GHANA Area (km 2 ) Percent of total forest area Types and subtypes subtype type Wet Evergreen 6,570 8.1 Moist Evergreen 17,770 21.9 Upland Evergreen 292 0.3 Moist Semi-deciduous 32,890 40.4 - South-east 18,460 - North-east 14,430 Dry Semi-deciduous 21,440 26.4 - Inner Zone 8,630 - Fire Zone 12,810 Southern Marginal 2,360 2.9 South-East Outlier 20 0.03 Total Forest Area 81,342 100 7
FOREST COVER MAPPING IN RESERVES: RATIONALE Constraints on restoration are much smaller in reserves than off reserves Presence of degradation in reserves usually implies opportunity for restoration There is a strong interest in Ghana to assess degradation status of forest reserves Forest reserves provide a comparatively easy and well known starting point for method development 8
FOREST COVER MAPPING IN RESERVES Select, acquire and prepare satellite images Map and analyze forest cover Calculate areas of different forest cover types 9
EXAMPLE: DRAW RIVER FOREST RESERVE 10
EXAMPLE: BONSA RIVER FOREST RESERVE 11
EXAMPLE: BURU RESERVE (SAVANNAH REGION)
EXAMPLE: MAMANG RIVER FOREST RESERVE 13
National Assessment of Off-Reserve Areas 14
NEW LAND COVER MAP Existing land cover/land use map was outdated and of poor quality The most recent Landsat images were selected, acquired, corrected, fused into a mosaic, and interpreted New national map to serve as foundation for restoration opportunity assessment, including off reserves 15
REGIONAL STAKEHOLDERS’ WORKSHOP Working in small groups, using the new land cover map as a foundation ... Delineate and characterize areas on regional maps in terms of restoration needs. Describe each polygon in terms of possible and recommended restoration interventions, and obstacles (agro-technical, social, legal, etc) Identification of "bright spots", and examples of restoration interventions that have been successful on the ground and could be emulated List types of restoration interventions that should be considered along with approximate cost and biomass gain 16
REGIONAL WORKSHOPS: INTENSE DISCUSSIONS 17
REGIONAL WORKSHOPS: UNREFINED RESULTS 18
DRAFT RESTORATION OPPORTUNITY MAP For parts of Southern Ghana I H Following processing and G refinement of the output from two regional workshops J B F J I B H A 19
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