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Forest landscape restoration (FLR) activities have the potential to cover 350 to 850 million hectares, though legal and social factors may limit actual availability. Key principles of FLR include restoring forest functions, engaging diverse stakeholders, and working across landscapes, while incorporating biodiversity conservation goals. Benefits of restored landscapes include sustainable income, improved habitats, climate resilience, and recreational opportunities.

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Forest landscape restoration (FLR) activities have the potential to cover 350 to 850 million hectares, though legal and social factors may limit actual availability. Key principles of FLR include restoring forest functions, engaging diverse stakeholders, and working across landscapes, while incorporating biodiversity conservation goals. Benefits of restored landscapes include sustainable income, improved habitats, climate resilience, and recreational opportunities.

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Biodiversity and livelihoods in forest management > Forest landscape restoration

Estimates of the amount of land available for forest landscape restoration

ITTO and IUCN 2009


(FLR) activities range from 350 to 850 million ha. Legal, social and other factors
may reduce the area that is actually available, but nonetheless, the extent of
forest land degradation and resultant opportunity for landscape restoration is
significant. The Global Partnership on Forest Landscape Restoration, a network
of governments, organisations, communities and individuals, identifies three
GOOD PRACTICES

principles which characterise FLR: 1. Restoration of a balanced and agreed-


upon package of forest functions; 2. Active engagement, collaboration and
negotiation among a mix of stakeholders; and 3. Working across a landscape.

ITTO and IUCN (2009) recognizes the importance of FLR activities (e.g. see
Guideline 22) which incorporate biodiversity conservation goals, such as
planting native species and creating corridors on degraded land to increase
habitat and allow species to move between fragmented natural forest patches.
Restored forest landscapes may include areas protected for watershed
management and nature conservation, well-managed commercial plantations,
tree buffers along rivers to protect against flooding and erosion, and
agroforestry systems, among others. Restored forest landscapes can provide a
range of benefits including sustainable income, timber for industries and local
communities, increased habitat, increased resilience to climate change, a
Schematic description of a forest
secure and quality supply of water, and recreation and tourism opportunities. landscape.

FLR involves the participation of everyone who has a stake in the role of
forests, including local farmers, government managers, private forest owners, municipal water providers, logging companies,
game hunters, and others. They must identify the various forest goods and services that matter most, and work out how best to
restore them. (Sources: ITTO and IUCN 2009, GPFLR n.d.)

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