Achieving Quality Forest and Landscape Restoration in the Tropics

Ota, Liz; Chazdon, Robin L.; Herbohn, John; Gregorio, Nestor; Mukul, Sharif A.; Wilson, Sarah J.

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“…However, the definition of strategies guided by locals' perceptions provides effective insights to improve understanding and communication between stakeholders, supporting the construction of engaging narratives (Ecker, 2016;Tisovec-Dufner et al, 2019), that are especially important when planning activities to incentivize stakeholders to adopt sustainable land management practices. Consulting local stakeholders should, therefore, be a priority in the planning process aiming at identifying bottlenecks, its drivers, and feasible solutions (Chazdon et al, 2020;Ota et al, 2020), particularly in highly human-influenced landscapes (Cebrián-Piqueras et al, 2020), like the Atlantic Forest.…”

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Local Perception in Forest Landscape Restoration Planning: A Case Study From the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

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Understanding local stakeholders' perception and their relation with the landscape and its natural resources is an important step for successfully implementing Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR). Here, we present a case study on FLR in the context of a global biodiversity hotspot—the Brazilian Atlantic Forest, using a participatory approach to include local stakeholders' knowledge and perception of the landscape into project planning. We analyzed the land use and cover, and organized a workshop with focus group methodology associated with maps and other visual representations to assess local perceptions of economic activities, production chains and their impacts on the landscape and ecosystem services. The study area encompasses seven municipalities mainly covered by native vegetation and pastures. Despite pastureland being the prominent land use in the region, they are not engaged in associations, most do not live in the region, and few participated in the workshop. Most participants were small and medium-scale landowners involved in agricultural activities who demonstrated a detailed knowledge of the territory, a disposition toward combining conservation with production practices, and a positive perception regarding ecotourism, agroecological approaches, water, and soil conservation. The participatory approach proved effective to complement the initial assessment while revealing novel aspects of the landscape and the landowners, helping test our hypotheses and adjust the engaging narratives for future FLR activities planning in the region, including environmental law compliance. More studies associating social and natural science, including participatory methods and local communities' perception, are needed to fully comprehend the drivers of stakeholders' engagement. This case study provides useful insights for other researchers and practitioners to design more effective plans for future land management.

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Local Perception in Forest Landscape Restoration Planning: A Case Study From the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

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“…As unanticipated challenges confronted the region, new programmes were developed, gradually building capacity of the people in local communities and of the NGO that emerged ( table 1 ). This trajectory is guided by collaboration, communication, collective action and adaptive management, a feature that is emerging from other FLR case studies [ 7 ]. Projects became part of a long-term participatory process focused on rebuilding a landscape, connecting fragments, building community and providing opportunities for endangered wildlife and landless families.…”

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“…Although holistic approaches such as FLR are highly appealing, they are very difficult to implement and sustain [ 6 , 7 ]. Landscape approaches develop over time and usually require a departure from past practices on the ground and within institutions that are traditionally oriented and equipped to achieve more limited goals [ 1 ].…”

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People, primates and predators in the Pontal: from endangered species conservation to forest and landscape restoration in Brazil's Atlantic Forest

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This study describes the 35-year progression of activities in the Pontal do Paranapanema region of São Paulo State, Brazil. These activities began as a research project on the conservation ecology of the highly endangered Black Lion Tamarin and broadened into a landscape-scale restoration and conservation project involving the active participation of hundreds of landless families that colonized the region. Rather than viewing these colonists as a threat, a non-governmental organization arose to address their needs, providing training and support livelihoods. Local communities were engaged in conservation and restoration activities focused on studying the movement patterns of endangered species, environmental education programmes, planting native trees along riparian corridors, establishing coffee agroforestry plantings and initiating community-managed nurseries for the production of local native seedlings and non-native fruit trees. Farmers gained knowledge, income and food security, and developed a sense of ownership and shared responsibility for protecting wildlife, conserving forest fragments and restoring forests. Land sharing and restoring forest functions within an agricultural landscape matrix created new opportunities for people and endangered wildlife. We explore how key factors and partnerships critically influenced the landscape trajectory and conclude with lessons learned that may be relevant to sustainable landscape initiatives in other contexts.

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“…Forest restoration not only contributes to improving biomass, carbon stock and biodiversity conservation, but it also helps to support the livelihoods of forest-dependent people [7,8]. Several countries, including Nepal, have made various global commitments for forest restoration, and have become the part of global conventions such as Aichi Biodiversity Targets 15 of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity [9], and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 15 which elucidates "Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss" [10][11][12][13].…”

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Strategic Pathways to Scale Up Forest and Landscape Restoration: Insights From Nepal’s Terai

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Deforestation and forest degradation mostly caused by human interventions affects the capacity of forest ecosystem to provide ecosystem services and livelihood benefits. Forest Land Restoration (FLR) is an emerging concept which focuses on the improvement of ecosystem as well as livelihood of the people at the landscape level. Nepal has successfully recovered degraded forest land mainly from the hilly region through forest restoration initiatives especially community based forestry. However, the Terai region is still experiencing deforestation and forest degradation. This study navigated the gaps related to forest restoration in the existing policies and practices and revealed that the persistence of deforestation and forest degradation in Terai is a result of a complex socio-economic structure, limitation of government to implement appropriate management modality, unplanned infrastructure, and urban development. We suggest that forest restoration should focus on ecological and social wellbeing pathways at the landscape level, to reverse the trend of deforestation and forest degradation in the Terai regions of Nepal. The study provides a critical insight to the policy makers and practitioners of Nepal and other countries (with similar context) who are engaged in forest/ecosystem restoration enterprise.

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Achieving Quality Forest and Landscape Restoration in the Tropics

Cited by 35 publications

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Local Perception in Forest Landscape Restoration Planning: A Case Study From the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

Local Perception in Forest Landscape Restoration Planning: A Case Study From the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

People, primates and predators in the Pontal: from endangered species conservation to forest and landscape restoration in Brazil's Atlantic Forest

Strategic Pathways to Scale Up Forest and Landscape Restoration: Insights From Nepal’s Terai

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