Updating the administrative boundaries of classified forests and parks and reserves requires heavy and time-consuming activities: redefinition of boundaries, physical updating of boundaries, consultations with stakeholders (e.g. local populations, civil society), etc. This work was performed from 2013 to 2018 for existing national parks and reserves by the Ivorian Parks and Reserves Office (OIPR) but has yet to be done for classified forests.
作为一个中期措施,可可和森林倡议(CFI)指导委员会在2018年11月8日最后一次会议期间,建议与CFI利益攸关方共享公园,储备和分类森林的现有行政界限的现行地图。为此,水和森林部(MINEF)建立了由雷米的专家,国家技术研究和发展(BNetd),森林开发公司(SODEFOR)以及OIPR工作的专家组成的工作组协调各自结构中可用于分类林的数据。
2019年5月21日星期二,Alain-Richard Donwahi部长正式移交给世界可可基金会(WCF)的主席Richard Scobey先生,国家公园,储备和尚未成为的分类森林的更新行政界限更新,以及根据其类别的森林列表,基于其劣化程度。This data, submitted digitally and by paper, will be critical for companies to plan for their activities and ensure they don’t source cocoa from national parks and reserves, in accordance with Commitment 1 of CFI’s Joint Framework for Action (“Prohibit and prevent activities in the cocoa sector that cause or contribute to the further deforestation or degradation of National Parks and Reserves, Classified forests and forests of the protected forest domain (rural domain)”), and, for classified forests, in accordance with the Strategy for the Preservation, Rehabilitation, and Extension of Forests.