THEME

ACTIVITY

NETWORKING

A global network for cloud forests including:

• Web with subsections
• Newsletter
• Meetings
• Inventory of institutions
• Groups
• Language

INFORMATION

1. Co-ordinate/Disseminate information (link to network) on cloud forests, including maps, databases, threats, actors, bibliography, research and conservation activities
2. Production of global cloud forest atlas

RESEARCH

1. Development of global cloud forest classification system - Bryophytes and lichens information centre
2. Establish cloud forest working group within IUFRO to stimulate cloud forest research (priorities)

AWARENESS

1. National and international NGOs encouraged to place cloud forests on their agenda. Involve workshop participants, WWF, IUCN, plus CI, WCS, TNC
2. Clarify terminology on "cloud forest" – definition
3. Communicate message – threats and values of cloud forests

Achieve through network contacts/research/preparation of popular documents

THEME

ACTIVITY

NETWORKING

1. Start the development of the African TMCF Network (incl. ToR)
2. Production & Dissemination of a Summary Digest on African Cloud Forests
3. The African TMCF Network lobbies the national and International NGOs to place TMCF on their conservation agenda
4. Development of funding proposals by African TMCF Network for various activities

RESEARCH

Adoption & development of an Integrated Landscape approach, technically facilitated by regional/global network
Site identification, characterisation, (inventories) & prioritisation
Development of Montane monitoring systems & methodologies for sustainable management of TMCFs

THEME

ACTIVITY

NETWORKING

Link existing protected area managers/scientists through:

• locally held workshops
• information web sites
• e-mail network

Hold major TMCF Symposium 2003 (10 years after Puerto Rico) in Hawai’i.

CAPACITY BUILDING

At local level, institutional linkages/twinning (including universities)
ID and seek to better inform NGO's, comm. leaders, local politicians about TMCF's

RESEARCH

Inventory (+species)
Mapping – change detection
Standard methodologies esp. biophysical (water balance)
Air quality sites, also nutrient cycling
Identify existing economic uses (inc. wildlife trade)
Priority areas: Flores – Nusa Tengarra, French Polynesia
Couple of sites Sabah, Malaysia
Document on cloud forests in Irian Jaya

AWARENESS

Prepare informational posters for distribution
Regional pop doc, including poster, in 5 languages

ACTIVITY

AWARENESS

Promote social, economic and biological importance
Inform the location of cloud forests and the success stories of their conservation
Target local governments
National media Campaigns
Publish glossary of cloud forest definitions
Materials for pop docs

MANAGEMENT

Strategy to link up remaining fragments
(progress on the ground in Costa Rica)
Improvement management of existing reserves
Develop staffing capacity

RESEARCH

Identify national institutions to promote the necessary research on

• cloud forest distribution and threats,
• economic value
• hydrological importance
• biodiversity value
• climatological role
• ethnobiological values

INFORMATION

Collect more information, update WCMC database

NETWORKING

Pronatura Chiapas organising first meeting in Mexico of cloud forest conservation experts, November 1998, to establish national network and action plan.
Support international network using Web

POLICY

Internalisation of the cost of using water resources, e.g hydroelectricity, irrigation, drinking water, to support forest-owning communities
Examples exist in Costa Rica

MESOAMERICAN CORRIDOR -

Are plans taking into account cloud forests?
Cloud forests into corridors of reserves

THEME

ACTIVITY

AWARENESS

NGOs specialised in Cloud Forest
Regional IUCN Office
Create a logo/symbol for TMCF recognition
Send meeting documents to FAO, IICA, InterAmerican Bank, GTZ, European Union

MANAGEMENT

Social processes research to describe management, destruction, social & remediation processes
Quito Conference, December 1998-07-08
New Cultural Reserves Categories (Cat. V, and others)

POLICY

Policy theme on cloud forests at III International Symposium on Sustainable Mountain Development in Quito, December 9-14, 1998
Follow-up workshop with all stakeholders (NGOs, Govt., land owners, guerrillas, local groups)
Policy Conference to consider gender-issues related to cloud forest conservation Women only meeting

INFORMATION

1. Ask for a working group to incorporate information on cloud forests in the Kappelle & Brown Mountain Forest Book
2. Identify cloud forest issues
3. Revise and update cloud forest directory
4. Develop a system/procedure for dissemination and exchange of information between WCMC and people in cloud forest area

NETWORKING

Web site, links etc
List all groups involved in CF Conservation and establish links

CAPACITY

BUILDING

Production of a small handbook for capacity building with communities, scientists, and women
Establish cloud forest components in university courses in NGOs offering practicals for students to participate in courses

COMMUNITY MATTERS

Consultation and local, voluntary participation in conservation projects
Develop social exchanges

RESEARCH

Into cloud stripping functions, water harvesting
Identify and prioritise sites
Systemisation of methodologies
Diversification of social science methodologies
Need for biologists to be socially sensitive, involve local people in work & leave samples with schools
Some areas where local communities do not wish for intervention
Researchers with long-term studies

Philip Bubb
Tropical Montane Cloud Forest Initiative
UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre
219 Huntingdon Road
Cambridge
CB3 0DL United Kingdom

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