Watch: Dot the Botany Bot - an animation explaining how forest ecosystem services can be accounted for
In advance of the holiday festivities, ForES Project PhD candidate Kathleen Conroy of Trinity College Dublin came up with this cute robot...
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ForES is a four-year sustainable forestry project which began in Q4 of 2021, a collaboration between natural scientists in Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin and practitioners in Coillte, funded by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM).
The project will use Natural Capital Accounting approaches to co-develop tools to support sustainable forestry management decision-making. Unless forestry is managed in a way that recognises the multiple benefits it provides, they are at risk of being ignored.
This project will develop Natural Capital Accounts for specific forest sites. These accounts will capture information on forest natural capital STOCKS (the amount, location and condition of forest habitats), and the FLOWS of ecosystem services (in terms of commercial timber production, carbon sequestration, water retention, biodiversity and recreation). Bayesian Belief Network modelling will be used to understand the effects of different management decisions on ecosystem service flows, and an interactive web-based management scenario tool will be developed.
The project builds on the work of another natural capital project, INCASE (Irish Natural Capital Accounting for Sustainable Environments).
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