By Stephanie Mansourian, Daniel Vallauri
The significance of recovery keeps to develop, and this e-book integrates the recovery of wooded area services into panorama conservation plans. the worldwide conservation association WWF has made woodland panorama recovery a key subject and precedence for its environmental paintings. a result of WWF’s vast international succeed in, and including its many companions and opposite numbers, it has got an important point of expertise with regards to wooded area recovery at huge scales. This booklet represents the collective physique of data and event of WWF and its many partners--which is accumulated the following for the 1st time and on the way to be precious to all of these operating within the box. This advisor will function a primary cease for practitioners and researchers in any association or area and as a key reference at the topic. besides concise, functional info for various particular platforms and concerns, it offers many feedback for extra research.
From the Foreword by way of leader Anyaoku, President, WWF International:
''Is it an indication of the days that the Nobel committee selected to award the Nobel Peace prize to Wangari Maathai for having planted 30 million bushes? We think so. . . .The twenty first Century should be a time of woodland restoration.''
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Example 1: In 2000, in an attempt to re-create a native wild wood, the Scottish nongovernmental organisation (NGO), Borders Forest Trust, together with many partners, bought a 600-hectare plot of land, Carrifran, in the Southern Uplands of Scotland in order to restore its original forest. Thanks to fossil pollen buried deep in peat, it was possible to identify the nature of the variety of species previously found on this now near-denuded site and therefore to develop a restoration plan that aimed to re-create the species’ mix that had occurred in the past.
Forest Resources of Europe, CIS, North America, Australia, Japan and New Zealand. N. Regional Economic Commissions 21 for Europe and the Food and Agriculture Organisation, Geneva and Rome. , et al. 2003. The High Conservation Value Toolkit. Proforest, Oxford (three-part document). Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe. 2002. Improved Pan-European Indicators for Sustainable Forest Management: as adopted by the MCPFE expert level meeting, October 7–8, 2002, Vienna, Austria.
And as forest areas are reduced, pressure on remaining forests increases. Efforts at reversing this trend have had only limited success. For many, restoration signifies large-scale afforestation or reforestation (mainly using fast growing exotic species), which have only limited conservation benefits. This has been the approach taken by many governments that are seeking to support a timber industry or create jobs or, equally, those who have taken a simplistic approach to flood or other disaster mitigation.