fbpx

Severe Anthropogenic Stress on the Forests, Illegal Logging and Forest Degradation in the Ali Forest Zone

On 2 August 2017, CENN, within the framework of the project “Fostering New Technologies for Sustainable Forest Governance”, with the financial support of the World Resources Institute (WRI), organized fieldwork in Ali forest, Khashuri Municipality. The aim of the fieldwork was the assessment of the forest condition for modelling of local landscape vulnerability.

 

Ali forest represents one of the hot spots in Georgia due to degradation of its landscape. Severe anthropogenic stress on the forests, such as Illegal logging and forest degradation (dense road networks and fragmented forest stands in the whole region) are documented and visible on the satellite.

 

Based on the landscape assessment in Ali village, it could be stated that the forest recovery is severely hindered. Isolated trees have been damaged due to forest logging and strong winds.

 

Within the field assessment, CENN expert group identified the following norm violations:

 

Trees are logged on 35-45 ° slopes;

Logging waste is left untreated on the forest territory;

Trees cut down several years ago were placed along the river.

 

Due to intensive tree felling, some areas have a massive development of shrub land, which hinders the forest landscape recovery process.

 

Based on the findings of CENN experts’ group, it is critical to thin out the sub-forest on the degraded area to prevent further damage to the already scarce saplings.

 

The project “Fostering New Technologies for Sustainable Forest Governance” is aimed at supporting the on-going forestry reform in Georgia through the introduction of new technologies of Information and Communication Tools (ICTs).

 

The projected is implemented by CENN with the financial support of WRI. Project activities include forest vulnerability analysis and mapping. The project will result in development of a comprehensive map based on preliminary desk and field studies and modelling of disaster-sensitive zones to indicate where the National Forestry Agency will need to conduct additional studies to allocate cutting areas.

 

Please see the video below:

 

 

For more information, please contact:
Ann Inasaridze
Erekle Chakhvashvili
CENN

t +99532 275 19 03/04
f +99532 275 19 05
ann.inasaridze@cenn.org
erekle.Chakhvashvili@cenn.org

 

 

 

X

Thank you for your subscription !

Sorry †such e-mail already exist in the mailing list. Please contact us

Please choose one of the following :