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A comprehensive assessment of the multiple benefits of mangrove ecosystems and their restoration efforts in Gujarat is made. The study is important and contextual as there are very limited empirical evidences as regards the impacts/ outcomes of mangrove restoration activities on the local communities in Gujarat.

English Nature’s Habitat Restoration Project ran from 1996 to 2000 to demonstrate the extent to which fragmentation could be reversed using the available mechanisms; to identify which policies and procedures were most effective in achieving habitat recovery and what new policies, funding or procedures were needed; and finally to disseminate the experience to influence partners to adopt those policies or procedures to achieve the reversal of habitat fragmentation.

This document presents the principles, criteria and indicators to be used as a guide for monitoring ecological restoration projects developed in the Atlantic Forest. He describes clearly how these aspects should be checked, measured and evaluated the logo of the implementation period, contributing to the improvement and replication of successful actions.

In May 2005, the Regional Community Forestry Training Centre for Asia and the Pacific (RECOFTC) by its Thailand Collaborative Country Support Program (ThCCSP) collaborated with 16 organizations (including the United Nations Development Program) to host a national conference titled “Participatory Monitoring and Assessment of Ecosystems: lessons learned in Thailand”. The conference was specifically aimed at facilitating the exchange of knowledge on participatory monitoring and assessment of natural ecosystems and the lessons each organization has learned to date. This document works as a summary of the National Conference held during 26 - 27 May 2005 at Kasetsart University, Bangkok.

This toolkit has been written to assist community groups and restoration practitioners record details of their revegetation projects, assess their condition and monitor their outcomes for biodiversity and carbon sequestration. Additionally, the methods presented here can also be applied to other situations where there is a need to monitor and evaluate change in forest ecosystems, including assessment of the extent of degradation or recovery within remnant forest.