First Workshop on Forest Financing in Small Island

Developing States 23-27 April, Port of Spain, Trinidad and

Tobago

Presented by: Tini Duburiya Tirah Jeremiah

Information on Nauru

Short term Goals A Forest Management plan developed 2012

Mid Term Goals Forest management plan implemented starting with reforestation

of the mines areas 2015

Long terms Goals Reforestation of the mined areas 15% completed commercial

viable forestry and agro forestry Products indentified and associated business plans developed 2025

Nauru Goals on Forestry

Commerce, Industry and Environment (CIE) Micro Financing for the promotion of small business Biodiversity Climate change Agriculture Water related issue Sustainable Land Management

Nauru Rehabilitation Corporation (NRC) Rehabilitation of mined out land

Community Based Organisation (CBO) Community Environment cleaning and planting of trees

Implementing agency

Multilateral Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme Secretariat of the Pacific Commission Global Environment Facilities United Nations Development Program United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization

BilateralMainly Taiwan and Japan

Developing Partners

Local Govt not considering this issue as a priority, even though it is clearly written in our revised NSDS

Implementing agency not very (CIE) and (NRC) active in the forest sector

Community based organisation focus on infrastructure development, social development, and environment cleaning

Land in Nauru are freehold land and Government have to either lease the land or purchase it for forest conservation.

Forest issue in Nauru

Funding are injected into other environment projects (water, Climate change, Biodiversity etc)

Community competition sponsored by Government and local organisation only focus on cleaning and clearing and not planting of trees.

Forest Financing Issue

Similar to the programme here in Trinidad and Tobago, Budget for this program is funded by local government, which started 8th August 2011

Community based organisation Objective of this program is environment cleaning and

replanting Led by the Chief Secretary Department It been proven successful There is potential, for this program to expand and enter in

the Forestry sector.

Nauru Clean and Green

Two Programs in regards to Forest 1. Reforestation final phase of the rehabilitation of the mined out phosphate land. The program

consist of designing new soil profiles to match the land use, mulching and composting organic waste to mix with existing stock of topsoil (estimated to be around 1 million tonnes) that has been stored in open weather for a good 40 years in some cases as means of reintroducing nutrients into the soil, propagating local and exotic species of trees in a nursery with capacity to handle 60,000 plants per year and finally transplanting the trees out in the field on rehabilitated land.

2. Nursery seedling operation propagating native flora particularly the

endangered species, root crops and local ornamental plants. Current records show that the Nursery has planted a total of 1,598 flora seedlings

Nauru Rehabilitation Cooperation

GEF and UNCCD funded program Is schedule to complete a National Action

Plan in two to three months time Next phase will be the implementation but

there is no funding available.

Sustainable Land Management

Still in a draft form An environment lawyer from ICUN and a

group of expert from SPREP will be in Nauru this July to work on the legislation.

Laws on Forestry in Nauru

Due to the slow operation of rehabilitation in the mining area, Government Department in collaboration with NRC are working together on the expansion of nursery, but this does still need financial assistance

Nauru is developing conservation plans, working hard on writing a good environment management bill that can actually be implemented with the capacity on the ground so having all of these plans, just need resources and technical assistance to make this vision a reality.

Overall picture of forest financing and forest issue in Nauru

Ma Tubwa Korr Owak Thank you

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