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 Workshop Forest Reserves 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 &V BOLGATANGA &V LAWRA &V JIRAPA GAMBAGA &V &V N NADAWLI WALEWALE &V &V WA &V GUSHIEGU &V SABOBA &V SAVELUGU &V TOLON YENDI TAMALE &V &V &V ZABZUGU &V DAMONGO BOLE &V &V BIMBILA &V Republic of SALAGA Togo &V NKWANTA Republic &V of Cote D'ivoire KINTAMPO &V KETE-KRACHI ATEBUBU WENCHI KWAME DANSO &V &V &V &V DROBO TECHIMAN NKORANZA &V &V &V KADJEBI &V BEREKUM JASIKAN &V EJURA &V SUNYANI &V DORMAA AHENKRO &V &V HOHOE BECHEM &V &V DONKORKROM TEPA KPANDU KENYASE NO. 1 &V &V OFINSO &V &V AGONA AKROFOSO &V &V EFFIDUASE MANKRANSO GOASO &V &V &V &V KUMASI NKAWIE &V MAMPONG ASHANTI &V EJISU &V HO &V MPRAESO &V JUASO &V &V KUNTENASE &V MANSO NKWANTA &V BIBIANI BEKWAI &V &V &V BEGORO JUABESO NEW ABIREM &V &V &V ATIMPOKU SEFWI WIAWSO OBUASI &V &V KIBI &V AKATSI &V SOMANYA DENU KADE KOFORIDUA &V &V NEW EDUBIASE &V ODUMASE KROBO ADIDOME &V SUHUM &V &V &V &V SOGAKOPE DUNKWA-ON-OFIN &V &V AKIM ODA KETA &V &V AKROPONG AKWAPIM &V ASAMANKESE DODOWA &V &V ENCHI ASANKRAGUA &V NSAWAM ADA FOAH &V &V &V &V ASSIN FOSU AMASAMAN &V &V TEMA MUNICIPAL AREA TWIFO PRASO BREMAN ASIKUMA &V &V &V AGONA SWEDRU ACCRA &V &V AJUMAKO &V ABURA DUNKWA WINNEBA TARKWA V& Towns &V APAM &V &V &V SALTPOND National Park DABOASE &V &V ELMINA HALF ASSINI &V Forest Reserve &V CAPE COAST &V a e Waterbody SEKONDI uin AGONA NKWANTA AXIM &V G &V f &V Gulf o 6 FOREST TYPES IN GHANA Area (km2) 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 I For parts of Southern Ghana H G Following processing and refinement of the output from two regional workshops J B F J I H B A 19 .