Forest Landscape Restoration Implementation

Colombia A pilot project on SFM and the clean development mechanism has enhanced the sharing of decision making responsibilities of communities in the planning and implementation of restoration strategies, shown stakeholders the benefits of their participation, and shared the costs and benefits among them.

Benefits of FOREST LANDSCAPE RESTORATION

Forest Landscape Restoration Investing in People and Nature

Restore forest landscapes to benefit people and nature and contribute to reversing the trends of forest loss and degradation.

It encouraged good practice by considering a range of case studies emerging from national, sub regional and regional workshops and the lessons learned from them.

Forest landscape restoration provides an approach that is gradual, iterative, adaptive and responsive.

An interactive facilitated field trip to three sites contributed to increasing understanding of forest landscape restoration

It notes the track record of forest landscape restoration so far.

Forest landscape restoration offers a constructive way of responding.

Promoting public participation is central to the forest landscape restoration concept.

Increased understanding of forest landscape restoration approaches Development of projects to operationalize forest landscape restoration in specific countries Establishment of national committees on forest landscape restoration Recognition that international synergies can translate into national and regional synergies

What enabling framework is necessary for viable forest landscape restoration partnerships?

Tijuca National Park Urban Forest Restoration Restoration of Golden Lion Tamarin Habitat in Sao Joao River Basin LIGHT A Hydroelectric Company's Restoration Programme in the Mata Atlantica Biosphere Reserve

Events held around the world related to restoration of forest landscapes have revealed that positive steps on forest landscape restoration are also being taken in many countries beyond the work of the partnership.

Experience has shown that successful forest landscape restoration starts from the ground up, with the people who live in the landscape and stakeholders directly affected by the management of the landscape.

Forest landscape restoration aims to restore ecological integrity and improve the productivity and economic value of degraded land.

The Partnership will continue to provide a platform for leaders and champions of forest landscape restoration to announce their plans and challenge others.

and organized by the Global Partnership on Forest Landscape Restoration

The Workshop further clarified the following components in understanding forest landscape restoration

An open discussion on the characteristics of forest landscape restoration in plenary was held after the presentations.

Growing the Global Partnership The Global Partnership on Forest Landscape Restoration is new way of doing business that brings together governments, organizations, communities and companies who recognize the importance of forest landscape restoration and want to be part of a coordinated global effort.

Landscaping.

Building a Learning Network At Petrópolis, the Partnership committed to further demonstrating the value of forest landscape restoration by launching a portfolio of new landscape restoration initiatives by the end of 2006.

People, organizations, governments and companies are undertaking, planning and supporting forest landscape restoration activities including

The meeting was organised by the Global Partnership on Forest Landscape Restoration in collaboration with the Governments of Brazil and the United Kingdom.

29 participants from 19 countries and one international organization raised points related to the components of forest landscape restoration.

Forest landscape restoration is a vehicle for delivering on internationally agreed commitments on forests, biodiversity, climate change and desertification.

Identification of manageable clusters of issues like forest landscape restoration can help.

How can increased community control of forests be harnessed for successful forest landscape restoration?

The Challenge describes forest landscape restoration and highlights its contribution to the MDGs and to national development processes.

The Challenge calls for the restoration of forest landscapes to benefit people and nature and contribute to reversing the trends of forest loss and degradation.

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In response to this challenge, the Global Partnership on Forest Landscape Restoration was established and was formally launched in Rome in March 2003.

Who are the potential beneficiaries of forest landscape restoration and how may they be involved in planning and management?

How can partnerships be developed to ensure more even and equitable sharing of benefits and burdens among forest landscape restoration partners?

I learned to love landscapes.

Forest landscape restoration is a local mechanism that should be integrated with both sectoral and extra sectoral national development processes, including poverty reduction strategies and national forest programmes.

Approaches to forest landscape restoration were similar to those for other natural resource management, so therefore existing toolkits, structures etc. could be used.

The Petrópolis Workshop on Implementation of Forest Landscape Restoration took place 4 8 April 2005 in Petrópolis, Brazil.

The lanscape is not a specific place.

What would you know about scenery?

Participants discussed the need for economic drivers to make the case for forest landscape restoration and to ensure that benefits flow to the poorest.

And it would come barreling down at her over the landscape.

It is the landscape, right?