Gather information about the people who are working on the development or
restoration of the forests. Write in detail about one of them.
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Welcome to the Forest Restoration and Rehabilitation Module, which is intended for people
involved in afforestation and reforestation programmes. The module establishes the difference
between forest restoration and rehabilitation and sets out the main steps involved in both.
The module provides basic and more detailed information on forest restoration and
rehabilitation, as well as links to key tools and case studies of effective restoration and
rehabilitation efforts.
Forest restoration and forest rehabilitation are challenging long-term endeavours that require thoughtful planning, implementation and
monitoring. While they are closely related, a conceptual distinction may be made between them. The purpose of forest restoration is to
restore a degraded forest to its original state – that is, to re-establish the presumed structure, productivity and species diversity of the forest
originally present at a site. The purpose of forest rehabilitation is to restore the capacity of degraded forest land to deliver forest products
and services. Forest rehabilitation re-establishes the original productivity of the forest and some, but not necessarily all, of the plant and
animal species thought to be originally present at a site. Both forest restoration and forest rehabilitation are implemented on sites or in
landscapes where forest loss has caused a decline in the quality of environmental services. They aim to strengthen the resilience of forest
sites and landscapes and thereby to keep future land-use and management options open.
An emerging concept is forest landscape restoration (FLR), an approach to forest restoration that involves stakeholders in all affected land-
use sectors as well as participatory decision-making processes. FLR is an approach to managing the dynamic and often complex
interactions between the people, natural resources and land uses that comprise a landscape. It makes use of collaborative approaches to
harmonize the many land-use decisions of stakeholders with the aims of restoring ecological integrity and enhancing the development of
local communities as they strive to increase and sustain the benefits they derive from the management of their land.
Forest restoration and rehabilitation may be carried out on unproductive or abandoned agricultural land, deforested grasslands, brushlands,
scrublands or barren areas, and in understocked or degraded forests. Forests may be restored and rehabilitated by protective measures
(e.g. protection from fire or grazing and erosion control), measures to accelerate natural recovery (e.g. through direct seeding or by planting
seedlings in degraded primary or secondary forests), measures to assist natural regeneration (e.g. through weed control on degraded lands
and marginal agricultural sites), and the planting of native or introduced trees in single-species or mixed-species plantations, in agroforestry
production systems and as trees outside forests.