Restoring functionality and productive capacity to forests and landscapes in order to provide food, fuel, and fiber, improve livelihoods, store carbon, improve adaptive capacity, conserve biodiversity, prevent erosion and improve water supply.
Mapping of Forest and Landscape Restoration Opportunities
Worldwide, enormous areas that once supported forests have become deforested or degraded. About 30 percent of the world’s potential forest cover has been completely cleared and a further 20 percent has been degraded. Yet more than two billion hectares of deforested and degraded forest land worldwide may have the potential to be restored.
Forest and Landscape Restoration is about more than just planting trees. It goes beyond afforestation, reforestation, and ecological restoration to improve both human livelihoods and ecological integrity.
A restored landscape can accommodate a mosaic of land uses such as agriculture, protected reserves, ecological corridors, regenerating forests, well-managed plantations, agroforestry systems, and riparian plantings to protect waterways.
As a contribution to the Global Partnership of Forest and Landscape Restoration, The World Resources Institute is partnering with the University of Maryland and IUCN to map opportunities for forest and landscape restoration – where they can be found and how big they are.
Restoration By Region
Download these brochures for more information on Forest and Landscape Restoration opportunities:
- Global (PDF, 2.4 Mb)
- Africa (PDF, 680 Kb)
- Asia (PDF, 729 Kb)
- Latin America (PDF, 678 Kb)
Interactive Map of Forest and Landscape Restoration
Click on the map below to open up our Interactive Atlas of Forest and Landscape Restoration Opportunities.
Photo: Mosaic restoration could improve the functionality of this landscape in Uganda. Credit: Flickr/weesam2010.
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Project Partners
- Global Partnership on Forest Landscape Restoration (GPFLR)
- CERSGIS - Centre for Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Services
- International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
- PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency
- United Nations Environment Programme – World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC)
- University of Maryland, Department of Geography
Supporters
- ESRI, Inc.
- German Federal Ministry Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU)
- International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
- Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency
- Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA)
- UK Forestry Commission
- USDA Forest Service, International Programs
- World Bank Program on Forests (Profor)
