This latest research tells us that there are more than 1 billion hectares of lost or degraded forest lands worldwide where restoration opportunities may be found. With this comes substantial potential to not only sequester large volumes of carbon but also to help lift people out of poverty and reduce the vulnerability of rural people and ecosystems through restoration of forest landscapes. The book Principles and Practice of Forest Landscape Restoration: Case studies from the drylands of Latin America, edited by A.C. Newton and N. Tejedor, is an excellent compendium of case studies and analysis, which will be of interest and use to people who wish to move forest landscape restoration forward, no matter what country they operate in. Practitioners and policy-makers working on forest landscape restoration are learning all the time, through experience, and from each other. It is important to continue to connect partners and collaborators around the world, from Scotland to Sudan and Moldova to Mexico, in a growing community of practice, enabling

Type of Case
Printed publication (book, sourcebook, journal article…)

Publisher
IUCN

Region
Americas

Biome
Arid lands

Forest Type
Degraded forest

Primary Designated Function
All