Afforestation, reforestation and new challenges from COVID-19: Thirty-three recommendations to support civil society organizations (CSOs)

Mohan, Midhun; Rue, Hayden A.; Bajaj, Shaurya; Galgamuwa, G.A. Pabodha; Adrah, Esmaeel; Aghai, Matthew M.; Broadbent, Eben N.; Khadamkar, Omkar; Sasmito, S.D.; Roise, Joseph; Doaemo, Willie; Cardíl, Adrián

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.112277

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“…A study by Crowther et al (2015) [6] has estimated the number of trees cut down every year to be at 15 billion, based on projected tree densities. This large-scale deforestation and degradation of natural habitats leads to the diminution of buffer zones, segregating humans and animals, thus increasing the probability of human-wildlife interactions and dissemination of zoonotic diseases [7][8][9][10]. As a consequence, it becomes paramount to look into novel forest replanting strategies to address deforestation.…”

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“…There are practical limitations in the nursery industry, such as lag time to produce tree seedlings after a disturbance, energy, labor infrastructure, and seed availability [20]. Moreover, the limitations to fieldwork are now aggravated due to new challenges associated with COVID-19-type pandemics, such as budget cuts, travel restrictions, and safety concerns [10,[21][22][23].…”

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“…• The concept of UAV usage also found positive reviews during the growing problem of finding laborers during the COVID-19 crisis. For instance, UAVs have been used to spray disinfectants in public places during COVID-19 [219], and the same situation is extrapolatable to the A/R sector as well, as described in Mohan et al (2021) [10].…”

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UAV-Supported Forest Regeneration: Current Trends, Challenges and Implications

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Gopan³

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Replanting trees helps with avoiding desertification, reducing the chances of soil erosion and flooding, minimizing the risks of zoonotic disease outbreaks, and providing ecosystem services and livelihood to the indigenous people, in addition to sequestering carbon dioxide for mitigating climate change. Consequently, it is important to explore new methods and technologies that are aiming to upscale and fast-track afforestation and reforestation (A/R) endeavors, given that many of the current tree planting strategies are not cost effective over large landscapes, and suffer from constraints associated with time, energy, manpower, and nursery-based seedling production. UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle)-supported seed sowing (UAVsSS) can promote rapid A/R in a safe, cost-effective, fast and environmentally friendly manner, if performed correctly, even in otherwise unsafe and/or inaccessible terrains, supplementing the overall manual planting efforts globally. In this study, we reviewed the recent literature on UAVsSS, to analyze the current status of the technology. Primary UAVsSS applications were found to be in areas of post-wildfire reforestation, mangrove restoration, forest restoration after degradation, weed eradication, and desert greening. Nonetheless, low survival rates of the seeds, future forest diversity, weather limitations, financial constraints, and seed-firing accuracy concerns were determined as major challenges to operationalization. Based on our literature survey and qualitative analysis, twelve recommendations—ranging from the need for publishing germination results to linking UAVsSS operations with carbon offset markets—are provided for the advancement of UAVsSS applications.

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UAV-Supported Forest Regeneration: Current Trends, Challenges and Implications

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“…Also, raw materials from the forests are a major source of community livelihood (Oli et al 2016;Hussain et al 2019;Ali et al 2020) through the exchange rate (Ali and Rahut, 2018;Njurumana et al 2020). However, this relationship has been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic through increased hardship, encroachment, illegal logging, and forest destruction (Golar et al 2020;Mohan et al 2021). Furthermore, social restrictions have changed access to forest resource use, such as honey used for health purposes (Hossain et al 2020;Al-Naggar et al 2020).…”

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“…Information regarding the management and marketing dynamics and their implications for the forest honey bee farmers livelihoods during the pandemic remains a mystery. Previous studies showed an increase in deforestation during the pandemic period (Golar et al 2020;Brancalion et al 2020;Mohan et al 2021), including changes in natural recreational activities (Derks et al 2020). Furthermore, forestry law enforcement was simplified (Guardian, 2020) due to population pressure and changes in access to forest livelihoods (Workie et al 2020;Sharma and Mahendru, 2020;Paudel, 2020;Anon, 2020;Corlett et al 2020, Taylor, 2020.…”

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The Livelihood Challenge of Forest Honey Bee Farmers amidst COVID-19 Pandemic in Mutis, Indonesia

Njurumana¹,

Kaho

Iswandono³

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The COVID-19 pandemic has affected various sectors of the global communities, including those that depend on forests for honey products. Furthermore, the dynamics of production and availability are completely affected by government restrictions. This study focuses on the short-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the forestry sector. Specifically, it examines the pandemic effect on forest honey farmers in habitat management, harvesting, marketing, farmer institutions, and livelihoods. The study was conducted on forest honey bee farmers through field observations and structured and in-depth interviews. Data were collected using five variables and 30 indicators in Fatumnasi Subdistrict, South Central Timor Regency and analyzed using descriptive and quantitative analysis. The results showed that the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the socio-cultural and economic utilization of forest honey. Additionally, social restrictions have reduced habitat management performance, farmers institutions and livelihoods, harvesting, and marketing. This has increased pressure on the livelihoods of forest honey bee farmers than before the pandemic. Moreover, it has directly affected their lives and the ability to provide quality forest honey. Therefore, interventions are needed to strengthen marketing and institutional networks to face the changes during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Mitigation, Adaptation, and Resilience Strategies for Extreme Aerosol Pollution

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2024

Aerosol Atmospheric Rivers

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Afforestation, reforestation and new challenges from COVID-19: Thirty-three recommendations to support civil society organizations (CSOs)

Cited by 26 publications

References 98 publications

UAV-Supported Forest Regeneration: Current Trends, Challenges and Implications

UAV-Supported Forest Regeneration: Current Trends, Challenges and Implications

The Livelihood Challenge of Forest Honey Bee Farmers amidst COVID-19 Pandemic in Mutis, Indonesia

Mitigation, Adaptation, and Resilience Strategies for Extreme Aerosol Pollution

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