Assisted natural regeneration (ANR) is a simple, low-cost forest restoration method that can effectively convert deforested lands of degraded vegetation to more productive forests. The method aims to accelerate, rather than replace, natural successional processes by removing or reducing barriers to natural forest regeneration such as soil degradation, competition with...

Forest rehabilitation is not a new phenomenon. But as tropical forest conversion continues seemingly unabated, rehabilitating degraded landscapes is likely to become more and more important. Countries individually or collectively will increasingly turn to rehabilitation to undo the negative consequences of diminishing forest cover. Countries that had or still have...

Mauritania is one of the Sahelian countries most severely affected by the repeated periods of drought that have been occurring since the end of the 1960s. Desertification control has always been a national priority and a central concern of successive governments, taking the practical form of various development plans and...

Many tropical countries have achieved economic growth at the expense of converting their forests. Some of those countries have prospered and others remain impoverished despite converting their forests. Both have the will now to restore some of their lost forest cover and commit resources to this end. Forest rehabilitation is...

The Global Partnership on Forest and Landscape Restoration is a proactive network that unites governments, organisations, communities and individuals with a common goal. The partnership was initiated with the purpose of catalyzing and reinforcing a network of diverse examples of restoration of forests and degraded lands that deliver benefits to...

This book is an excellent compendium of case studies and analysis, which will be of interest and use to people who wish to move forest landscape restoration forward, no matter what country they operate in. Practitioners and policy-makers working on forest landscape restoration are learning all the time, through experience, and...