Forest landscape restoration

This report has been prepared as part of an effort by IUCN to define its position on Nature-based Solutions (NbS) and plan for future work to advance this concept and support effective implementation of NbS to enhance ecosystem services provision and address societal challenges. The report proposes a definitional framework for NbS, including a set of general principles for any NbS intervention.

In any area with potential for restoration, companies are likely to be key players. We created this guide to help NGOs and others who want to engage constructively with companies on forest restoration. The recommendations, information, and resources are based on interviews and surveys of corporate leaders, other studies and reports on topics such as communicating for conservation and corporate–NGO engagement, and our experience working with the private sector.

This document presents methodological approaches for estimating atmospheric carbon removals from forest landscape restoration initiatives at two scales: programs and projects.

This report presents a study and account of the adoption of the Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR) Opportunity Assessment for Rwanda (the ‘ROAM’ assessment) recommendations by the Government of Rwanda (GoR) in partnership with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the World Resources Institute (WRI). It has been prepared for IUCN on behalf of the United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID) KNOWFOR programme using an episode study approach.

Recent developments have seen forest landscape restoration (FLR) become widely recognized as an important means of not only restoring ecological integrity at scale but also generating additional local-to-global benefits. This handbook presents the Restoration Opportunities Assessment Methodology (ROAM), which provides a flexible and affordable framework for countries to rapidly identify and analyse FLR potential and locate special areas of opportunity at a national or sub-national level.