Biodiversity offsets: opportunities and challenges for managing cumulative impacts of large-scale land-based investments on Africa's forest landscapes and their biodiversity

Quétier Fabien, De Wachter Pauwel, Dessard Hélène, Gersberg Melina, Nzene Halleson Durrel, Nzita Nganga di Mavambu Maxime, Ndong Ndoutoume Eugene, Feintrenie Laurène, Garcia Claude A.. 2015. Biodiversity offsets: opportunities and challenges for managing cumulative impacts of large-scale land-based investments on Africa's forest landscapes and their biodiversity. In : Linking land tenure and use for shared prosperity. 16th Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty, March 23-27, 2015, Washington, United States. s.l. : s.n., 16 p. Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty. 16, Washington, États-Unis, 23 Mars 2015/27 Mars 2015.

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Résumé : In the Western Congo Basin, the Tri-National Dja Odzala Minkebe (TRIDOM) Landscape covers 178000 km² in south-east Cameroon, north-east Gabon, and north-west Republic of Congo. Almost 97% is covered by tropical rainforest and is globally important for the conservation of large mammals (elephants, gorillas, chimpanzees). TRIDOM is also an emerging iron ore province with 9 iron ore deposits currently being explored. Mining and associated infrastructure will, under a business as usual scenario, lead to the widespread fragmentation of this forest landscape. Developing these projects with no-net loss or net gain biodiversity objectives as a condition for access to finance offers opportunities but a landscape-level approach is needed to take into account, and mitigate, indirect and cumulative impacts. There are numerous technical challenges and policy implications to this as the development and implementation of a landscape-scale vision for conservation and development in the TRIDOM requires coordinated efforts by various sectors of government and mining companies, and legal and financial tools to secure long-term land-use rights across the various interacting sectors. In this context, there are lessons to be learned from the TRIDOM for other biodiversity-rich landscapes faced with large-scale land-based investments in mining, oil & gas or agro-industrial sectors.

Classification Agris : P01 - Conservation de la nature et ressources foncières
K01 - Foresterie - Considérations générales
L20 - Écologie animale

Auteurs et affiliations

• Quétier Fabien, Biotope (FRA)
• De Wachter Pauwel
• Dessard Hélène, CIRAD-ES-UPR BSef (FRA)
• Gersberg Melina
• Nzene Halleson Durrel
• Nzita Nganga di Mavambu Maxime
• Ndong Ndoutoume Eugene
• Feintrenie Laurène, CIRAD-ES-UPR BSef (CMR) ORCID: 0000-0003-1621-396X
• Garcia Claude A., CIRAD-ES-UPR BSef (CHE) ORCID: 0000-0002-7351-0226

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