Presented by Ashebir Wondimu (EFCCC) on 28 August 2019 at "Fire Trends in Ethiopia in the Context of REDD+ and FLR Investments" Workshop, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

1. Overview of Ethiopia’s
National Tree‐based Landscape Restoration
Potential Mapping
By; Ashebir Wondimu
28 August 2019
Restoration Commitment Potential Mapping
Implementation Monitoring

2. Table of content
• Introduction
• FLR Goals & Targets
• Ethiopia’s FLR Options & Potential Maps
• Combined & Priority FLR Potential Areas
• Current FLR & Monitoring Initiatives
• Fire under FLR

3. Introduction
• Ethiopia made significant commitment to FLR based on
its past restoration experience
• Not new for land restoration activities
• Conducted FLR potential & Priority area mapping
• Implementing FLR in various forms, mainly via
community participation
• Ethiopia’s FLR aims to address various national & global
needs
• Worked to monitor progress [Mapping & MRV for FLR]

4. Introduction Cont..
• Identified land based challenges that could
be addressed by FLR:
 Habitat fragmentation/ loss of biodiversity
 Forest degradation
 Loss of soil fertility
 Overgrazing/free grazing
 Deforestation
 Soil erosion
 Siltation/ sedimentation of water bodies
 Moisture stress
 Flooding & landslides
 Climate change induced impacts
 Air pollution (some urban areas)

5. Goals of FLR Programs in Ethiopia
a. To regain ecological functions, enhance human well‐being in
degraded landscapes & increase socio‐ecological systems
resilience building, including addressing those Land based
challenges
b. Aims to achieve various global commitments;
o Climate Change Mitigation & Adaptation
o Biodiversity conservation (CBD)
o Combating desertification
o SDGs
o REDD+
• The national FLR targets;
 To restore 15 million ha of degraded land by 2030
(Bonn Challenge/ UN Summit in New York in 2014/AFR100)
 A/R & sustainable management of high forest & woodland on 7 million
ha by 2030 (CRGE Strategy)
 To increase Ethiopia’s forest cover from 15.5% (2015) to 30% (2030)

6. FLR Options Identified for Ethiopia
Forms of FLR options in Ethiopia;
1.Restoring Secondary forest
2.Restocking of degraded natural forest
3.Agro‐forestry (agri‐silviculture, silvo‐pastoralism, agro‐silvo‐pastoralism)
4.Woodlot
5.Commercial plantation
6.Tree‐based buffer zone along river banks & boundaries
of water bodies
7.Tree‐based corridors between biodiversity hotspots
8.Tree‐based corridors around religious forests
9.Tree‐based urban green infrastructure
10. Road‐side trees (outside of urban areas)

7. List of Mapped FLR Options
1. Restoration of secondary forests (ANR, Area closure)
2. Restocking of degraded natural forests
3. Agri‐silviculture & agro‐silvo‐pastoralism
4. Silvo‐pastoralism
5. Woodlots & home gardens
6. Commercial plantations
7. Buffer plantations around protected & forest priority areas
8. Tree‐based buffer zones along rivers, lakes & reservoirs

8. Potential for restoring secondary Forest Potential for restocking degraded Natural forest
Potential for commercial plantation Potential for Silvo-pastoralism
Potential Maps for identified FLR Options

9. Combined FLR Potential

10. FLR Potential according to Priority Areas
Priority 1: 11 million ha
Priority 2: 18 million ha
Priority 3: 25 million ha

11. Current FLR & Monitoring Initiatives in the Country
FLR Initiatives under implementation
Exclosure, ANR, woodlot, agroforestry, restocking
NF, buffer & large scale planation are implemented.
• Regular government/community plans via mass
mobilization in the form of Integrated Watershed
Management (country wide)
• REDD+; PFM & A/R Programs including ANR via
FSDP (Six regions)
• NGO based Program/project interventions
(project specific areas)
• State Forest Enterprises (OFWE & AFE)
• Institutions & few private sectors Restoration
actors (various location)
Monitoring System
• LULC Mapping (for LULC
change detection)
• Forest inventory (for stock
assessment)
• MRV System (separate
unit)
• FLR Monitoring system/
Ethiopia’s Tree Assessment
Survey was developed
(mainly used for trees
outside forest) [Collect
Earth + Google Earth]

12. FLR Monitoring Tool
4/28/2005
11/18/2017

13. Fire under FLR
• Not specifically addressed in this specific FLR document.
• However, forest fire is addressed in:
 Forest proclamation No. 1065/2018; (awareness, training, early
warning system, sharing information, participating in fire suppression
& punishments); but weakly addressed in the context of Climate
Change & role of surface OM accumulation for fire incidence.
 National Adaptation Plan; (Enhancing sustainable forest management).
More general & lacks detail technical measures. For example, fire
incidence vulnerability mapping was not considered.
 CR strategy of Agriculture and Forest; provided only one time Forest
Fire Incidence Map of 2008 with poor analysis. Weakly addressed fire
issues with no proper suggestions for measures to be taken as CR
strategy of forest.
• In general, weak institutional & personnel capacity in
addressing forest fire management (prevention +
protection). Strong support is needed.

14. Thank you for listening!