A global directory of tropical montane cloud forests. Draft

308 Pages·1997·7.4 MB·English

by  Aldrich, M., Billington, C., Edwards, M., Laidlaw, R., WCMC

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A GLOBAL DIRECTORY OF TROPICAL MONTANE CLOUD
FORESTS
DRAFT
by MarkAldrich, Clare Billington, Mary Edwards and Ruth Laidlaw
World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge, UK.
August 1997
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Acknowledgements
Grateful appreciation is expressed to a number of people who have contributed to the
compilation and production of this directory. To Heather Cross for her great efforts in
editing, reviewing and production, and to James Culverwell and Sam Kanyamibwa
(Africa), Ruth Laidlaw (Central America and South-East Asia), Miguel Morales (Mexico)
and Chris Sharpe (Venezuela) for their help in writing and researching. Also to Tim
Quinton for his work on the database and Mary Edwards for map production. Finally to
Clare Billington, Willem Ferwerda, Larry Hamilton and Richard Luxmoore for their advice
and encouragement along the way.
Many thanks are also due to those who commented on a draft layout for the database and on
types ofinformation to be collected, as well as giving advice and guidance during this phase of
work. They include Sampumo Bruinzeel, Rainer Bussmann. Charles Doumenge, Willem
Ferwerda, Don Gilmour, Larry Hamilton, Mark Jeffcote, Jim Juvik, Maarten Kappelle. Mariella
Leo, Adrian Long, Chris Sharpe, Fred Scatena, Ed Tanner. Paul Toyne, Peter Weaver, Tim
Whitmore, Jan Wolf, andmany colleagues here at WCMC.
In addition thanks to all the cloud forest enthusiasts around the world who have contributed
WCMC
information and expressed an interest in working with inraising awareness ofthe value
ofremaining cloud forests. Many are listed along with their contact details as an annexe to this
directory. Apologiesto anythathavebeenmissed.
We
trust that this draft directory and the database from which it has been compiled provide a
valuable resource. We also hope to build on this andthe rapidly developing network ofcontacts
in a subsequent phase ofwork, which will contribute towardsthe conservation ofthe remaining
areas ofthis unique andfragile ecosystem.
The World Conservation Monitoring Centre (WCMC). based in Cambridge. UK is a
joint-venture between the three partners in the World Consen'ation Strategy and its successor
Caring For The Earth: lUCN - The World Conservation Union. UNEP - United Nations
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Environment Programme, and - World Wide Fund for Nature. provides information
services on conservation and sustainable use the world's living resources, and helps others to
develop information systems oftheir own.
Prepared by Mark Aldrich, Clare Billington, Mary Edwards and Ruth Laidlaw with funding from
lUCN Netherlands Committee.
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Citation: World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1997. A GlobalDirectory
ofTropicalMontane CloudForests (Draft). Aldrich, M.,
Billington, C, Edwards, M. and Laidlaw, R (Eds).
World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge, UK.
Unpublished. 268pp.
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A GLOBAL DIRECTORY OF TROPICAL MONTANE CLOUD
FORESTS
CONTENTS
Introduction and Background to the Development ofthis Directory Page No.
1. An Introduction to Tropical Montane Cloud Forests
i
1. Values
1.2 Threats/Pressures
1.3 The need for information
1.4 Related activities
2. Deflnitions and Terminology
iii
2.1 Difficulties with definition
2.1.1 Working definitions
2.2 Commonly used Terminology
3. Distribution ofTMCFs vi
3.1 Global distribution
3.2 Altitude, latitude and the Massenerhebung effect
3.3 Altitudinal distribution
3.4 Mapping
4. Background to the development ofa global database ix
5. Development ofa standardised methodology and format for recording data x
6. Data gathering exercise: problems x
7. Compilation ofa draft directory xi
8. Development ofa Cloud Forest Network xi
9. Global Overview xii
Including tables showing total number ofregions and sites per country,
with the number ofsites protected -
Table 1 South-East Asia xiii
Table 2: Africa xiv
Table 3a: Central America xv
Table 3b: South America xv
Table 4: Global Totals xvi
10. Conclusions xvii
11. Proposed future activities xviii
12. References xix
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in 2010 with funding from
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The Directory
Legend to the maps
AFRICA
1. :
Angola
1
Burundi 5
Cameroon 9
Cote d'lvoire 14
Equatorial Guinea 18
Ethiopia 22
Gabon 26
Guinea 32
Kenya 36
Liberia 45
Madagascar 49
Malawi 53
Mozambique 57
Nigeria 61
Reunion 65
Rwanda 69
Sao Tome and Principe 75
Sierra Leone 79
Tanzania 83
Uganda 90
Zaire 96
LATIN AMERICA - CENTRAL
Belize 107
Costa Rica
11
El Salvador 117
Guatemala 121
Mexico
126
Panama
I35
2.1 LATIN AMERICA - SOUTH
Bolivia I43
Brazil 149
Colombia I54
Ecuador 162
Peru 170
Venezuela 177