Landowners / Practitioners

To promote mutual learning and knowledge sharing among restoration practitioners – and thereby strengthen their capacity to implement and scale up ecosystem restoration – the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration Taskforce on Best Practices (led by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO) has developed a framework for collecting and disseminating good practices for ecosystem restoration. This has been integrated into the Framework for Ecosystem Restoration Monitoring (FERM) platform (created by the FAO-led Taskforce on Monitoring). As part of this effort, a template for gathering good practices has been developed, which defines what constitutes a good practice, outlines assessment criteria based on the principles of ecosystem restoration, and provides step-by-step guidelines for a standardized review process. The close to 2000 good practices cover diverse ecosystems globally, farmlands, forests, freshwaters, grasslands, shrublands and savannahs, mountains, oceans and coasts, peatlands and urban areas. A common search engine has also been developed, allowing users to search, filter, and access a wide range of restoration practices tailored to their context and needs. In addition to the good practices presented here in the Forest Knowledge Gateway, it gathers practices from all over the world, collected from the FERM Registry, LIFE GoProFor, Panorama - Solutions for a Healthy Planet, and the World Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies (WOCAT) databases.