Implementing forest landscape restoration

This publication supports practitioners in implementing forest-landscape restoration (FLR) as a process to rebuild ecological integrity while enhancing human well-being in degraded landscape. It emphasises that FLR operates at the bigger scale — not simply planting trees but restoring forest ecosystems as part of a mosaic of land uses. The book is organised into seven modules: (I) Getting started (visioning, prioritisation, baselines); (II) Governance (stakeholders, institutions, decision-making); (III) Project design (turning goals into measurable objectives); (IV) Technical implementation (methods and context-specific operations); (V) Monitoring and evaluation; (VI) Climate mitigation and adaptation; (VII) Communication of results. Key messages include the need for participatory processes, adaptive management, addressing root causes of degradation (social, institutional, economic), building multi-stakeholder coordination, setting clear measurable objectives, integrating climate change goals, and ensuring ongoing learning and communication. The guide’s aim is to help translate high-level commitments (such as the Bonn Challenge) into concrete, context-specific restoration action on the ground.