GUIDE: Restoration Approaches Around the World
A Collection of 10 Case Studies
These ten case studies present a deep dive into restoration, featuring the work of practitioners and scientists spanning eight different countries: Australia, Brazil, Cambodia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Peru and South Africa. The compendium includes cases in working lands, coastal ecosystems, the alpine paramo, rangelands, and arid environments. Each case contains information on the context in which the initiative was born, the methodology used, the impacts of the project, benefits and challenges of the work, and how those doing the work in the field plan to amplify the impact of the project in the future.
Best practices are at the core of the compendium, including: assisted natural regeneration (ANR); applied nucleation (AN); agroforestry, silvopasture and direct seeding (Muvuca); and tree planting. This compendium presents restoration projects that consider natural regeneration and its use in a diversity of restoration methods, natural resource management and the importance of ecosystem services for the community, while elevating cost-efficient restoration practices, diverse methodologies, and frameworks for future restoration projects and practitioners.