The Restoration Monitoring Tools Guide is a starting point for setting up your restoration monitoring system. With this tool you can find more about how to monitor restoration and use the Tool Finder to help you select which monitoring tool will best fit your needs. Objectives of this guide are to:...

Ponderosa pine and dry mixed-conifer forests in the Southwest United States are experiencing, or have become increasingly susceptible to, large-scale severe wildfire, insect, and disease episodes resulting in altered plant and animal demographics, reduced productivity and biodiversity, and impaired ecosystem processes and functions. We present a management framework based on...

This book has been written by a team of experts from a wide variety of institutions coordinated by ITTO and IUCN. It explains the forest landscape restoration (FLR) concept and describes its main elements in chapters on adaptive management, landscape mosaics, landscape dynamics, stakeholder approaches, the identification of site-level options,...

Think of a tropical forest landscape and the image that probably springs to mind is of a billowing, continuous canopy with scattered solitary emergents, a sea with many shades of green and the occasional dramatic splash of colour stretching uninterrupted towards the horizon. Reality is often quite different. Deforestation and forest...

Case studies and experiences with natural regeneration from the region have shown that natural regeneration significantly reduces the cost of restoration in areas that meet certain conditions. Native species that are adapted to the prevailing conditions re-establish on their own with some assistance, achieving accelerated growth in accordance with natural...

SLM has a central role in all the eight United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration ecosystems, through combating land degradation while generating multiple co-benefits including climate change mitigation, resilience, improved biodiversity and enhanced production. In terms of land degradation neutrality – a central component of ecosystem restoration – SLM works...

Drs. Karen Holl and Rakan Zahawi, along with Mr. Juan Abel Rosales, talk about their 16-yr study comparing planting 'islands' or patches of trees with natural forest regeneration and the more standard plantation-style planting approach. The research project continues at 12 sites in southern Costa Rica.

This report forms part of a review aimed at providing advice on improving forest concession systems in tropical forests. he review was carried out by FAO in cooperation with the International Tropical Timber Organization, the Brazilian Forest Service, the Center for International Forestry Research and Centre de Coopération Internationale en...

This article tries to: define what a riparian buffer is; describe what benefits a riparian buffer can provide in an agricultural landscape; identify situations where installing a riparian buffer should be considered. A riparian buffer is land next to streams, lakes, and wetlands that is managed for perennial vegetation (grass, shrubs,...

Widespread illegal forest activities have contributed to deforestation, forest degradation, economic losses to nations and injustices for forest communities in many countries. Promoting rule of law, particularly through "strengthening law enforcement", is an important part of improving forest management and ensuring justice for forest dependent communities. This includes strengthening police...