Sarah Jane Wilson (co-author)
Conservation International, October, 2022
Where to restore? Using spatial data to inform restoration prioritization for climate, biodiversity, and community benefits (Access the PDF)
Authors
Sarah Jane Wilson , Elise Harrigan, Salome Begeladze, Camila Donatti, Bruno Coutinho, Ruth Metzel, Starry Sprenkle-Hyppolite, Jacob Bukoski, Isabel Hillman
About
This guide explains how to use spatial data to identify opportunities for restoration, and presents a wide range of alternative restoration strategies suited to different ecological and socioeconomic contexts. The goal of this guide is to help countries, projects, and organizations identify where and how to restore forests using readily available data (3). It focuses on restoration that facilitates forest succession, enhances forest resilience in the face of climate change, and complements existing forest conservation initiatives (4, 5). The restoration strategies highlighted here include assisted natural regeneration, silvopasture, agroforestry, applied nucleation, direct seeding, enrichment planting, and tree planting. Aimed at practitioners and restoration managers, we detail how to use spatial data to decide where to restore (Figure 1), and provide information on different strategies to inform restoration on the ground.
