In 1997, Chiang-Mai University’s Forest Restoration Research Unit (FORRU-CMU) joined forces with Hmong villagers to reforest degraded areas in Doi Suthep-Pui National Park. Experimental forest restoration plots were established annually over 16 years using the framework species method. FORRU-CMU funded the construction of a community tree nursery in the village...

Vast areas of the Maradi and Zinder regions of Niger were transformed from severely degraded farmland to agroforests through farmer-managed natural regeneration (FMNR). In the 1970s and 1980s, Maradi and Zinder faced an ecological crisis. Multiple droughts, rapid soil degradation, and famine left fuelwood, building materials, and fodder scarce, and...

The Nachusa Grasslands Preserve in north central Illinois, USA, is a large-scale, long-term, high-quality restoration effort coordinated by The Nature Conservancy. Since 1986, crew members, volunteers, researchers, and staff have collaborated to reconnect remnant patches of tallgrass prairie, woodland savanna, and wetland ecosystems at Nachusa Grasslands, creating one of the...

The Lebanese government initiated an extensive forest and landscape restoration (FLR) project in the Shouf Biosphere Reserve (SBR), Lebanon. The SBR spans ~50,000 ha of mountainous topography along the Mount Lebanon range. Home to a quarter of Lebanon’s remaining cedar forests, it is highly diverse with a mosaic of different...

During the 1980s, the Miombo woodland and Acacia savanna ecosystems of the Shinyanga region in northern Tanzania were well on the path to desertification following 60 years of deforestation and land degradation. Traditional rangeland management using a system of fodder reserves known as Ngitili lost ground to commercial crop production,...

Coastal communities are intrinsically connected to the sea. Their lives depend on it. A key to happiness and life in tropical regions is a healthy mangrove forest. We are now recognizing that a world without the rainforests by the sea, wouldn’t just mean a dismal scenario for coastal communities, but would...

The video (in Spanish) provides a summary of the National Forest Inventory carried out in Nicaragua during 2007-2008. Images and interviews present details of the activities connected to FAOs support to National Forest Monitoring and Assessment programme.

The video (in Spanish) provides a summary of the National Forest Inventory carried out in Nicaragua during 2007-2008. Images and interviews present details of the activities connected to FAO's support to National Forest Monitoring and Assessment programme.

To promote the biodiversity of forest nature, groups of trees are left standing on regeneration felling sites. This video shows this technique applied on Finnish stands.

Following the restitution of landownership in Eastern European countries, private forest ownership is often highly fragmented. New private forest owners typically lack knowledge and experience of forest management. Forest owners’ organizations (FOOs) are an instrument for supporting the sustainable management of private forests. However, there is a lack of experience...