Mapping Resources
Photo: Greenpeace – Ulet Ifansasti
The HCSA Alert & Monitoring Protocol for member assessments provides information and guidance on how the monitoring system works and how alerts and responses are managed in cooperation with HCSA members. It also clarifies the system’s strategic alignment with member and partner monitoring efforts.
Mapping High Carbon Stock (HCS) forests is a critical step towards protecting them from deforestation. The initial HCSA mapping procedure was developed to identify and conserve HCS forests in concession-level areas of land owned by single producer companies. This large-scale mapping framework gives guidance to identify HCS forests across different landscape sizes and regions across the world.
HCSA member Barry Callebaut teamed up with the EcoVision Lab at ETH Zurich University to produce large-scale indicative High Carbon Stock forest maps for Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines. They combine new spaceborne LIDAR satellite imagery with calibrated regional carbon biomass data to produce large-scale indicative maps that are highly automated and objective.
Science for Nature and People Partnership published assessment of HCSA as one of two prominent programmes examining how HCSA integrates 12 attributes of forest mapping and monitoring systems to implement zero deforestation commitments and contribute to system credibility, salience, legitimacy and scalability.
Sumatra island hosts some of the most diverse forests on Earth and some of the most threatened. Rapid deforestation for oil palm, paper and other commodities has often been facilitated by a lack of checks on the origins of products and their associated deforestation and other environmental and social risks. This mapping exercise covered 470,000 km² and focused on High Conservation Values 1-4 and classifying indicative High Carbon Stock forests.
This document describes a methodology called High Conservation Value (HCV) screening. HCV screening is a desktop exercise that uses the six HCV definitions to characterise the environmental and social aspects of a landscape or jurisdiction.
