Best Practices for Forest & Landscape Restoration
These best practices, identified by IUCN and WRI, help ensure that restoration is successful, lasting and beneficial.
- Involve trees and other woody plants in landscapes where appropriate
- Scale up successes from individual sites
- Restore functionality, ecosystem services, not “original” forest cover
- Balance local needs with national and global priorities
- Employ a range of restoration strategies
- Adapt to circumstances over time
- Avoid strategies that lead to the conversion of natural ecosystems