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Forests.. 6 4.2 Forest instítutíons and legislation . 6 5. ITINERARY OF ESIA TEAM'S VISIT................................. 8 SECTION B: NATURAL RESOURCES, POPUI.ATION AND LOCAL ECONOMY IN THE BCL CONCESSION AREA . • . • . • . • . .. 9 6. NATURAL RF.SOURCES IN TIIB CONCESSION AREA . 9 6.1. Topography, hydrology and cliroate . 9 6.2 Forest types . 10 6.3. Timber . 10 6.4. Biodiversity . • . 13 6.4.1. Flora . 13 6.4.2. Fauna . 13 6.5. Non timber forest products . 14 6.6. Sotl . 17 6.7. Minerais . 17 6.8. Wildlife trade . 18 6.9. Fisheries . 19 6.10. Conservation / Protection areas . 19 7. PEOPLE IN TiíE CONCESSION AREA . 20 7.1. Archaeology . 20 7.2. General Population . 20 7.3. Ameríndían Population . 21 7.4. Amerindian land rights . 22 7.5. Forest-based livelihoods . 24 7.6. Amerindian response to presence of BCL . 25 7.7. Local Govenunent Adnúnistration. 26 7.8. Employment and Economy. 26 7.9. Health. 28 7.10. Education . 30 8. LAND USES AND LOCAL E:CONOMY IN TiíE CONCESSION AREA . 31 SECTION C: ENVIRONMENTAL ANO SOCIAL IMPACTS OF BCL OPERATIONS 33 ACRONYMS 9. BCL OPERATIONS . 33 AP A Amerindían Peopie' s Assoaation 9.I. TechnicaJ operations · ·, .. · · · · . 33 ARU Amenndian Research Unít, at University of Guyana 9.2. Survey . 33 BCL Barama Company Limited 9.3. Road construction . 34 BP Before Present 9.4. Extraction . 34 CITES Convention on Intemational Trade ín Endangered Species 9.5. Quality c:ontrol . 35 DBH Diameter at Breast Height 9.6. Training . 35 ECTF Edinburgh Centre for Tropical Forests 9.7. Social and Communíty policy . 35 ESIA Environmental and Social Impact Assessment FAO Food and Agriculture Orgaruzation 10. POTENTIAL ENV1RONMENTAL AND SOCIAL IMPACTS ..............• 36 GAHEF Guyana Agency for Health Sciences, Education, Environment and Food Poücy 10.1. Impacts of selective logging..... .. .. 43 GDP Gross Domestic Product 10.2. Impacts of roads and sktd traíls . .. 44 GEMCO Guyana Envíronmental Monitoring Organisation 10.3. Impacts of forestry-related actívities . 44 GFC Guyana Forestry Commission 10.4. Impacts of fíre . 44 GGMC Guyana Geology and Mines Commission 10.5. Impacts of employment, economíc development and changing GHRA Guyana Human Rights Association population structure . 44 GLSC Guyana Lands and Survey Commission GNRA Guyana Natural Resources Agency GOIP Guyana Organisation for Indigenous People SECTION D: RECOMMENDATIONS FOR MITIGATION ..••............. , . 46 GUYREDEM Guyana Regional Development Ministry IBRD Intemational Bank for Reconstruction and Development 11. ENVIRONMENTAL AND SILVICULTURALRECOMMENDATIONS . 46 mo Intemational Timber Trade Organization 11.1. BCL responsibility . 46 IUCN Internatíonal Union fur the Conservation of Nature 11.2. Govemment responsibility . 47 NARI National Agricultural Research Institute 11.3. Opportunities for development . 48 NFAP National Forest Action P1an NSRC National Science Research Coundl 12. 49 SOCIAL RECOMMENDATIONS . PK Port Kaítwna 12.1. responsibility . .. .. .. .. .. 49 BCL PSP Permanent Sample Plot 12.2. Govemment responsibility. 51 TSA Timber Sales Agreement 12.3. Opportunities for development . 51 UG University of Guyana 13. BIBUOGRAPHY AND SOURCES . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 53 MEASUREMENTS 1 APPENDIX NO. I - MAPS . 57 i m2/ha square metres per hectare m3/ha cubíc metres per hectare APPENDIX NO. II - PEOPLE AND ORGANISATIONS CONSULTED . i, 58 1 kml square kilometres er1 ha hectares ,\ APPENDIX NO. m · AMERINDIAN POPULATION IN TifE BCL CONCESSION m AREA. metres 59 1 mm millimetres cm centimetres Executive Swnmary STRUcnJRE OF THIS REPORT Thís repott IS presented in 4 sections: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Section A (Conte:,,:t) provídes a general background, including the rationale for this L Background Envíronmental and Social Appraisal, the aíms of the Barama Company Llmi!ed, and contextual geography of Guyana. The Barama Company Limited (BCL) is embarkíng on a 50-year programme of sustamable tiinber production for plywood in a concessíon with a gross area of nearJy 1.7 million ha in Section B (Natural Resources, Population and Local Economy in the Barama concessíon) north west Guyana. The overall strateg:ic aíms of BCL are "to ensure the sustainability oi the gives an analysís of the current status of natural resources and their management in the forest in perpetuity whilst selectively harvesting a major natural resource for the benefü of concsssíon, the Company, people and Govemment of Guyana." This aiJn íncorporates the wider responsibilities of sustainable forest management, including envirorunental and social Section C (Environmental and Social Impact of BCL operations) descnbes the operatíons sustainability. of BCL logging programme, and the potential impacts this may have on the resources described in section B. Enviromnental and social parameters, and regional econonuc growth, are strongly interlinked in forestry developments. This Environmentaland Social hnpact Assessmant (ESIA)examines Section D (RecoDllllendations for Mitigation) finally gives concíusíons and recommendaríons the broader environmental and socío-economíc context of the BCL forestry operanon, for miti.gating and managing the potential negative ímpacts, and maximízíng' the positive díscusses the potential negative and positive ímpacts of this substantial regional impacts. development, and produces reccmmendatíons for il:nplementation by BCL and the Govemment of Guyana for improved planning and forest management in the North-West. ACKNOWLBDGEMENTS This ESIA forms part of a prograxrune of work being undertaken by the Edinburgh Centre for Tropical Forests (ECI'F) to researeh and monitor the BCL Sustaínable Forest Management We would briefiy llk.e to express our grateful thanks to the Bararna Company Límíred, to the Programme, ECTF has a full-time representative in Guyana, Mr Greg Sutton, worldng ín the many Govemment ínstitutíons, research organísations and non-govenunent organisations ín concession area. The research will be used to guide BCL's forest managsment planning, to Georgetown and Region 1, and to the Ameríndíans, míners, traders and residents of North• advise BCL anel the Guyana Forestry Con:unission (GFC) on the sustainable annual tímber West Guyana, for their help, ídeas, ínformatíon and collaboration in undertaldng this Impact harvesr from the concession, and to monitor the wider aspects of forest management to which Assessment. We also express our thanks to all the individuais and organísations in UK who BCL are committed, includmg 1ong term impacts on Amerindian communities, bíodíversíty helped with informatíon and advíce. and other envíronmental parameters. Toe University of Guyana, and other appropriate Guyanese institutions, will be actively involved in this research, and results will be available to ínterested institutions ín Guyana. BCL has produced a detailed Forest Management Plan, which serves as one maín reference point for this ESIA. Copie. of this Management Plan are available from BCL. This is a comprehensive document, which covers all operational aspects of the programme, including l:he basis of the annual harvest, and details of the inilial 1-year and 5-year plans. GFC has approved. the Forestry Management Plan for the períod 1992-1996. At the end of years 1 and 2, reviews of the Plan will be carried out to reflect additional infonnation resulting from the ECTF research programme. Toe ESIA team consulted widely in Georgetown and in the North West regíon, with interested indivicluals, Ameríndian communitíes, NGOs and Govenunent institutions, to :!! provide a broad and balanced perspective on the context and potential impacts of BCL's operations. Natural resources in the Timber Sales Agreement (TSA} area. Toe inaccessibility of much of the forested. interior of Guyana, the low density and uneven distribution of the population, and the limited development of mining, agrícuíture, forestry ,, li . ~- Envuorunental and Social únpact Assessment Execunve Swnmary and roads ínland, explams the relatively undisturbed nature of much of the nation's forests, : t including the North West where BCL's concession is located. Guyana remains one of the few Over 6000 species of plants have been described for Guyana, of which over 100 are developíng countríes in the world where popu!ation pressures on its natural resources are commercially known tree species. The fauna of Guyana so far recorded compríses over 1200 . t virtually non-exístent, The potentíal for econormc development of these resources is vertebrate species, íncíudíng birds (728 speaes), mammals tl98 spedes), repules (137 species), enormous, provided. that the institutional and policy structure to ensure sustainabie amphibians
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