Forest landscape restoration and reforestation activities bring back to life degraded (e.g. forest fires) or clear-cut areas (e.g. deforestation, extractive activities). Through careful planning, forest restoration activities can provide people with environmental services, and species with new habitat, in formerly bare areas.
Forest Landscape Restoration
Bringing back the forests
Conservation Easment, Catskill Delawere watershed. New York State. Without the protection of surrounding forests, watershed would no longer exists and water would become scarce in New York City. For many cities time is running out. Protecting water catchment areas is no longer a luxury but a necessit
Forest Landscape Restoration helps to:
...restore environmental functions such as:
...address root causes of forest loss and degradation by:
...restore environmental functions such as:
- preserving watersheds thereby improving water quality and quantity
- improving and/or expanding habitats for endangered species
- soil stabilisation
- providing products for food, medicines and raw materials, as well as stable sources of income (e.g.: fruit, nuts, rubber, rattan, etc.)
- reducing the risk of landslides
- providing recreation areas
...address root causes of forest loss and degradation by:
- consulting and involving local people
- changing policies related to land use
- replacing harmful incentives with more positive ones
- natural regeneration, enrichment planting, selective logging, re-introduction of native species, fencing, and agroforestry
- planning with key stakeholders to identify solutions and training local communities
- building capacity and recognising traditional values and knowledge
