1) The document summarizes a project between IUCN and BMU to identify potential areas in Mexico for forest landscape restoration to meet restoration goals under the Bonn Challenge. 2) The methodology involved defining ecological, economic and social criteria through workshops, gathering and processing spatial data from Mexican institutions, and conducting a multicriteria evaluation and mapping to identify priority restoration sites. 3) The results identified over 302,000 km2 of land in Mexico as priority areas for forest landscape restoration, and highlighted specific priority sites within biological corridors and regions.

1. Assessing and Capitalizing on the Potential to
Enhance Forest Carbon Sinks through Forest
Landscape Restoration while Benefitting
Biodiversity
Partnership Program
Contribution :
Geotecnológica de Centro América, S.A.

2. Index
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International Programs
Background
Objectives
Methodology
Results
– National level
– Regional level
• Conclusions
• Available on website

3. CONABIO International Programs
GEF/World Bank
“Susteinable Production Systems and Biodiversity”
UICN-BMU
“Facilitating countries and communities in the design of pro-poor REDD-Plus
benefit sharing schemes.”
IFAD
“Programme to Strengthen Community-Based Management in Support of the
REDD+ in Mesoamerica” (PROFORCO)
UICN-NORAD
“Advancing REDD+: Mobilising private investment for community-based,
carbon-intensive landscape restoration”

4. Background
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Within the initiative "The Bonn Challenge" launched in 2011, which promotes to restore
150 million hectares of forests and degraded lands worldwide, the International Union for
Conservation of Nature (IUCN) together with the Federal Ministry of Environment of
Germany (BMU), developed in 2012 the IUCN-BMU project in Mexico.

5. Objectives
1.Identify potential areas to implement initiatives of forest landscape restoration* in Mexico.
2.The information generated is used as a tool to manage local and international financial
resources to guide restoration efforts.
* Restoration: Retrieve the basic functions of ecosystems.

6. Methodology
A. Defining criteria
B. Gathering
C. Data proces
D. Evaluation multicriteria
E. Mapping

7. A. Defining criteria
Workshop, september 2012, CONABIO Office, México City
Institutions that participated in the workshop
to define the criteria :
Workshop:
• Participatory process with institutional
actors (30 professional) to define
ecological, economic and social criteria.
B. Gathering
Working with other National Institutions:
• Sharing information
INEGI (National Institute of Geography and Statistics)
October 2012, Aguascalientes City, Mex.

8. Forest zoning
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C. Data process
Deforestation risk
3 Deterioration levels
National Comission Forest
• 3 levels to deforestation risk
National Ecology Institute & Climate Change
Erosion risk
Potencial and real land use
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3 Priority levels to restauration in Land forest with
high risk to wood extraction
National Institute of Geography and Statistics
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3 Priority levels to restauration classified by
erosion risk according type of soil
National Institute of Geography and Statistics

9. C. Data process follow
Fire resilience
Level of preservation of vegetation
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3 Priority levels to restauration classified
by level of preservation of vegetation
National Comission Biodiversity
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3 Priority levels to restauration classified by fire resilience
National Comission Biodiversity
Cloud forest
3 Priority levels to restauration in cloud forest land
National Comission Biodiversity

10. D. Evaluation multicriteria
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Process
1. Cartographic overlay process in Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
2. Weighing and reclassify the final maps
3. Adding map with the most fragile ecosistem (Cloud forest)
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E. Mapping

11. Results
The suggest surface for forest landscape restoration is 302.124 km2 (13% of the country)

12. Results: Regional level
Attention sites for forest landscape restauration on biological corridors

13. Results: Regional level
100,440 ha
Lancantún River, march 2013
Worshop with local developmet
agencies,march 2013
Paddock,march 2013

14. Conclusions
• It is essential to have a map that prioritizes potential sites for restoration.
• The map it is a good reference tool for future work in conjunction with other
institutions involved in forest resources in Mexico.
• It showed the potential of information management technologies and modeling
geographic space to address a complex problem of land use.

15. Ecoregions
Priority terrestrial regions
Areas of important bird conservation
Priority hydrologic regions

16. Priority sites for conservation
of terrestrial biodiversity
Areas of high biodiversity priority attention

17. www.conabio.gob.mx
http://www.conabio.gob.mx/informacion/gis/