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The Atlas of Forest Landscape Restoration Opportunity was produced by WRI in collaboration with the University of Maryland and IUCN as a contribution to the Global Partnership on Forest Landscape Restoration. The maps in the atlas are presented at a resolution of 1 km. In creating the maps contained in this atlas, the team sought to answer the following questions: How much of the world’s forest has been lost? Is it realistic to restore forests at a globally meaningful scale? How big are the restoration opportunities and where are they located? We approached the analysis into two steps. First, we would map how much forest has been lost. Then, we would map the opportunities for forests and trees to return.

The Restoration Diagnostic is a structured method for determining the status of enabling conditions within a landscape being considered for restoration and for designing the requisite policies, practices, and measures needed for successful restoration. The Diagnostic was developed as part of the Restoration Opportunities Assessment Methodology (ROAM) by the World Resources Institute (WRI) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

A desk review, interviews and questionnaires all contributed to the production of this report. The ten sites selected and highlighted in this report were chosen based on prior knowledge of the programme. Furthermore, six of these ten ecoregions are biodiversity hotspots as per the commonly agreed definition (rating levels of endemism and extent of threat). These sites by no means cover all of WWF’s efforts on the restoration of forests in landscapes.

The objective of the Project Monitoring of Forest Cover in the Regional Amazon Initiative Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization - ACTO is to advise, develop and implement participatory systems for monitoring the forest cover in the region. Its main goals are to contribute to the forest management in the countries in subjects related to deforestation, land tenure, changes in land use and sustainable forest management. It aims at availing information to the ACTO Member Countries on the extent and quality of the forest cover in the Amazon Region.

Overview of potential examples of landscape-scale ecological restoration (LSER); categorised by ownership type (i.e. charitable/government/private/ community) and numbers of partners (single/multiple). Sites where there is some restoration activity, but the approach appears to be best characterised as large-scale conservation management of open habitats are also listed; these are mainly nature reserves (e.g. Rum and Beinn Eighe). Private estates are listed where there is significant restoration activity and expansion of native woodland. Large areas of even-aged new native woodland planting are not included unless there is a strong focus on quality restoration and a good fit with LSER principles.