Ecosystem Based Adaptation in the Himalayas: ICIMOD Learning

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1 Ecsystem Based Adaptatin in the Himalayas: ICIMOD Learning HICAP wrkshp, Feb , Guwahati Laxmi D. Bhatta Wu Ning Bandana Shakya Internatinal Centre fr Integrated Muntain Develpment Kathmandu, Nepal

2 Adaptatin and ecsystems the use f bidiversity and ecsystem services as part f an verall adaptatin strategy t help peple adapt t the adverse effects f climate change. (CBD) Includes a range f lcal and landscape scale strategies fr managing ecsystems t increase resilience and maintain essential ecsystem services... (IUCN 2008)

3 ICIMOD s HKH Transects Transbundary Landscape Initiatives Karakram- Pamir Landscape (KPL) + Wakhan High Alpine arid endangered species Kailash Sacred Landscape (KSL) Sacred landscape with unique bidiversity and culture Kangchenjunga Landscape (KL) Crridrs and Cnnectivity Cmmn Fcus: Transbundary landscapes are better cnserved and managed fr sustaining ecsystem gds and services t imprve livelihds and enhance eclgical integrity, ecnmic develpment, and sci-cultural resilience t envirnmental changes Brahmaputra- Salween Landscape (BSL) Bidiversity Htspts and Endemism

4 ICIMOD Interventins prmting EbA Integrated Water Management Pilt and prmte water management technlgy, fr example, rainwater harvesting, cnservatin pnds Management ptins fr wetlands fr water re-charge

5 ICIMOD Interventins prmting EbA Muntain agriculture/farming system Pilt, and prmte climate smart agriculture Agriculture-frest ecsystem interface fr integrated planning Sustainable management f grassland and highland pastures Pilt, test and prmte cntrlled/rtatinal grazing Imprve native frage seed quality

6 ICIMOD Interventins prmting EbA Bidiversity and prtected areas; Prmting cncept f Payment fr ecsystem services Frest and frest carbn Supprt RMCs t pilt natinal REDD initiatives, including benefit sharing mechanism

7 EbA in Nrtheast India-ICIMOD pilts Sustainable Management f Maguri- Mtapung Beel cmplex Assam Understand wetland livelihds interface Prmte incentive based mechanism Prmting cllabrative management f Pba Reserve Frest Understand key drivers f frest ecsystem change Prmte cllabrative management f Frest ecsystem

8 Maguri- Mtapung Beel Cmplex -Pilt site Imprtant Bird Area fr internatinal significance hme t many endangered and migrant birds High dependency n wetland resurces, particularly fish, edible plants Under the jurisdictin f Department f Revenue- Cmmn Prperty Increasing turism- turism ptential High impact- and degradatin

9 Maguri-Mtapung Beel Cmplex Key Issues Siltatin, and wetland sink Over explitatin f fish ppulatin Grazing Use f pesticides in nearby tea garden Increasing turist, pllutin Flding, Strategy suggested: Prmting cllabrative management and incentive based mechanism fr sustainable wetland management

10 Pba Reserve frest-pilt site ha rich frest- high bidiversity Pssibly last remaining rain/mist frest in state f Assam Prvides tremendus ecsystem services fr lcal cmmunities Natural prtectin (fld prtectin) t nearby city centre Dhemaji Declared as reserve frest

11 Pba Reserve frest Key Issues River cutting and ersin Flash fld Encrachment and illegal cultivatin Defrestatin and Degradatin f Frests Apprach suggested: Prmting cllabrative management f Pba Reserve frests

12 Key Ecsystem Services, and pattern

13 Key Ecsystem Services, and pattern

14 Key Driver f Ecsystem Change Market frce (fuelwd cllectin, ver cllectin f fish) Invasive species, eupatrium and lantana pse great threat t frest regeneratin Siltatin in Maguri Beel due t high flash fld Encrachment, and illegal agriculture farming (bth Maguri, and Pba) Unmanaged turism >> excessive use f mtr bats causing pllutin River cutting Tea garden, using pesticides >> water cntaminatin Lack f prper management plan >> Maguri Beel

15 Key challenges and pssible apprach Integrated vs sectral planning Prgrammatic apprach based n 1) Landscape and 2) River Basin Limited research and data deficits, Database established (Data cllectin, management, and disseminatin t targeted audiences Limited capacity f actrs/stakehlders Capacity develpment is a pririty (Lack f) Lng term mnitring mechanism Establish ecsystem mnitring sites, institutinal mechanism n impact pathway Plicy and practice cnvergence Engaging plicy makers with Science cmmunity and practitiners

16 Cnclusin Bth Pba, and Maguri beel >> imprtant ecsystem fr lcal livelihds Ecsystem degradatin >> need an urgent fcus with cmmunity participatin > management plan Ecsystem based adaptatin apprach and tl culd be pssible ptin fr management EbA if can be streamlined with state level develpment prcess, and planning, Ecsystem resurces >> putting at centre fr verall develpment planning

17 Acknwledgement HICAP Aaranyak Partha Das, Bhaskar Bra Neha Bista Bb Van Ort Cmmunity frm Pba and Maguri Beel DFO- Dhemaji, DFO- Tinsukiya

18 Thank yu