{"id":6992,"date":"2023-06-21T11:52:50","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T08:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/?p=6992"},"modified":"2023-06-21T11:52:53","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T08:52:53","slug":"mainstreaming-forest-and-landscape-restoration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/news\/mainstreaming-forest-and-landscape-restoration","title":{"rendered":"Mainstreaming forest and landscape restoration"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content-lead clearfix selectionShareable\">\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-lead field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item selectionShareable\">\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">The official release of forest and land restoration plans is a significant milestone in promoting forest and landscape restoration in the country.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-media-image selectionShareable\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"content-hero-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iucn.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2023-06\/china_3.jpg\" alt=\"content hero image\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-hero-image-caption selectionShareable\">\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">Forest land restoration plan investigation in Bijie, which experts are discussing based on map cartography. Photo: Lishulei, TRI China PMO<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-body selectionShareable\">\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-body field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item selectionShareable\">\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\"><em>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/iucn.org\/our-work\/topic\/ecosystem-restoration\/restoration-initiative\/projects\/china\">TRI China project<\/a>\u00a0has developed three forest and land restoration plans for pilot areas, aiming to explore and implement a localized, practical and FLR-based restoration methodology.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">Matter and <a title=\"Energy Globe Award for Sustainability \u2014 Awards 2023\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/uncategorized\/energy-globe-award-for-sustainability-awards-2023\">energy<\/a> flow and pass from one component of a landscape to another, influencing and constraining each other, while forming together an indivisible ecosystem. <a title=\"Restoring degraded forest landscapes in Rwanda\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/news\/restoring-degraded-forest-landscapes-in-rwanda\">Forests are one of the most important elements in the landscape<\/a>, and forest degradation leads to significant impacts on the structure and functionality of the ecosystem. This, in turn, brings about complex economic and social challenges, which require multistakeholder efforts to create specific, sustainable <a title=\"Forest restoration\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/forest-restoration\">forest restoration<\/a> actions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">Following 3 years of continued effort, the TRI <a title=\"China releases renewed citizens\u2019 10 dos and don\u2019ts for environment protection, underlining knowledge on biodiversity, climate change\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/news\/china-releases-renewed-citizens-10-dos-and-donts-for-environment-protection-underlining-knowledge-on-biodiversity-climate-change\">China<\/a> project has developed three FLRPs for pilot areas at the city or county level, aiming to explore and implement a localized, practical and FLR-based restoration methodology to ultimately expand to additional cities and counties. The FLRPs cover a period of 10 years, in 2021\u20132030. In April 2022, the FLRPs were approved by the NFGA to be implemented in the three pilot areas, which present an important milestone in the mainstreaming of FLR in China.<\/p>\n<div class=\"align-center selectionShareable\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-media\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iucn.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2023-06\/china_1.jpg\" alt=\"TRI China\" \/><span class=\"caption-text\">Experts conducting forest <a title=\"A New Funding Opportunity for 3 African Landscapes\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/news\/a-new-funding-opportunity-for-3-african-landscapes\">land restoration<\/a> plan research in Fengning.<\/span><span class=\"credit-text\">Photo: Song Zengming,TRI China PMO<\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\"><strong>Why <a title=\"Collaboration for Mount Kenya Forest Restoration\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/news\/collaboration-for-mount-kenya-forest-restoration\">forest land restoration<\/a> plans\uff1f<\/strong><br \/>\nHuang Zhilin, the FLRP expert of the TRI China <a title=\"Call for Projects 2023\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/news\/call-for-projects-2023\">project<\/a>, explains: China is a country with vast land and abundant resources. Different regions have different resource allocations, ecological problems, management models and socioeconomic needs. One solution cannot be applied to all places. So, we chose three very different areas as pilots for testing a set of work methods to be replicated in more regions.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bijie is in the Guangxi-Guizhou karst area, part of the <a title=\"Botany and Ecology Field Practical Training at Saadani National Park\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/news\/botany-and-ecology-field-practical-training-at-saadani-national-park\">national karst rocky ecological<\/a> area where desertification prevention and control is carried out. The karst terrain is steep and vulnerable to soil erosion and rocky desertification.<\/li>\n<li>Fengning is an <a title=\"Ecological Agriculture and Biological Medicine\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/news\/ecological-agriculture-and-biological-medicine\">ecologically vulnerable area of interlaced agriculture<\/a> and animal husbandry located between the North China Mountains and the Inner Mongolia Plateau. Being prone to drought and soil depletion, some pilot areas of the project were affected by nomadic overgrazing.<\/li>\n<li>Xinfeng is in the source area of the Ganjiang and Dongjiang Rivers and is an important functional area for <a title=\"How to Address the Complicated Issue of Water Conservation\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/news\/how-to-address-the-complicated-issue-of-water-conservation\">water conservation<\/a> and purification. With a monsoon-influenced humid subtropical climate, the Hunan-Jiangxi hilly agroecological area is also a key area for <a title=\"China has made significant contributions to biodiversity conservation\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/news\/china-has-made-significant-contributions-to-biodiversity-conservation\">biodiversity conservation in China<\/a> and is an integral part of the southern hilly and mountainous ecological barrier.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"align-center selectionShareable\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-media\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iucn.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2023-06\/china_2.jpg\" alt=\"TRI China\" \/><span class=\"caption-text\">Experts discussing water resource <a title=\"Protected and Conserved Area Fund\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/news\/protected-and-conserved-area-fund\">protection<\/a> during forest land restoration plan investigations in Xinfeng.<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"credit-text\">Photo: Niu Jiayi, TRI China PMO<\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\"><strong>Localization strategy for forest and <\/strong><a title=\"Program Coordinator Landscape Restoration\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/news\/program-coordinator-landscape-restoration\">landscape restoration<\/a><br \/>\nDespite careful planning, difficulties arose as soon as the FLRPs were launched. During the research stage, the project team found that it was challenging for local <a title=\"Community rights and REDD+ in Indonesia\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/news\/community-rights-and-redd-in-indonesia\">communities<\/a> to understand FLR, especially given the westernized definition, standard and logic. So, the <a title=\"Call for Concept Notes for Regional Innovation Collaboration Projects in eastern Africa\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/news\/call-for-concept-notes-for-regional-innovation-collaboration-projects-in-eastern-africa\">project team reflected on whether it was possible to combine FLR with local Chinese concepts<\/a>. After visiting the NFGA, <a title=\"IUCN Launches the Project \u201cEnhancing climate resilience of Biodiversity Hotspots in Jordan\u201d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/news\/iucn-launches-the-project-enhancing-climate-resilience-of-biodiversity-hotspots-in-jordan\">IUCN<\/a>, the Academy of Forestry, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and other willing institutions, and communicating with many experts in various fields, the project team finally found the solution: \u201cSystemic Governance of Mountains, Rivers, Forests, Farmlands, Lakes and Grasslands\u201d (MRFFLG).<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">The <a title=\"Assistant Research Fellow (Natural Resources Management)(Re-Advertised) \u2013 2 Post\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/news\/assistant-research-fellow-natural-resources-managementre-advertised-2-post\">natural resources<\/a> of China are managed by various individual departments, each implementing their own mandates. Therefore, the measures taken by each department interact, and sometimes conflict, with those implemented by another. In the 2010s, China proposed the MRFFLG theory, emphasizing that mountains, rivers and forests, along with farmlands, lakes, grasslands and deserts are all indivisible parts in the wider <a title=\"Ecosystems and Conservation\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/ecosystems-and-conservation\">ecosystem<\/a>. As such, protecting the <a title=\"FBE 607 Ecosystem Dynamics and Climate\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/study\/fbe-607-ecosystem-dynamics-and-climate\">ecosystem requires an approach that mirrors intrinsic ecosystem dynamics<\/a>, and which can balance all nature\u2019s elements. The concept of MRFFLG is similar to FLR and has been widely understood in China, proving that combining both has greatly supported the localization of FLR and led to the exploration of FLR as a practice with Chinese characteristics. This, in sum, has enhanced the subsequent mainstreaming of FLR in China.<\/p>\n<div class=\"align-center selectionShareable\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-media\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iucn.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2023-06\/004_china_flrp-workshop.jpg\" alt=\"TRI China\" \/><span class=\"caption-text\">Local stakeholders discussing and identifying <a title=\"A shared understanding of forest landscapes is the foundation for restoration\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/news\/a-shared-understanding-of-forest-landscapes-is-the-foundation-for-restoration\">forest and landscape restoration<\/a> opportunities based on topography, during a forest land restoration plan workshop.<\/span><span class=\"credit-text\">Photo: NIU Jiayi, TRI China PMO<\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\"><strong>Multiple stakeholders participate in decision-making<\/strong><br \/>\nTo achieve the overall restoration of multiple landscape elements, relevant stakeholders must participate in decision-making, which is one of the most important FLR principles. Given that it is challenging to organize diverse stakeholders to complete such complex work, the Restoration Opportunities Assessment Methodology (ROAM) guide, written by IUCN and the World Resources Institute, takes users through a process to identify and analyse FLR potential, including how to most efficiently promote <a title=\"Multi-stakeholder workshop for the National Bamboo Development Strategy and Action Plan\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/news\/multi-stakeholder-workshop-for-the-national-bamboo-development-strategy-and-action-plan\">stakeholder action<\/a>. This book was introduced, officially translated and published in China by the TRI China project, which resulted in ROAM being used in the country for the first time, as the <a title=\"Extreme wildfires are turning the world\u2019s largest forest ecosystem from carbon sink into net-emitter\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/news\/extreme-wildfires-are-turning-the-worlds-largest-forest-ecosystem-from-carbon-sink-into-net-emitter\">largest application in the world<\/a>. Li Jia, the project\u2019s ROAM expert said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">Luo Qin, representative of the Jiangxi Forestry Department shared, &#8220;The project opened my perspective and brought many new ideas. In the past, we mainly focused on our own forestry work and paid little attention to what others were doing. Through the project platform, we not only learned new knowledge and technologies, got the opportunity to have in-depth communications with other stakeholders, but also found great potential for cooperation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">Every stakeholder has different needs, difficulties and working methods, so communication is necessary, and it is best to organize their participation from beginning to end. It\u2019s very hard because <a title=\"Celebration of World Food Safety Day \u2013 Theme: Food Safety, Everyone\u2019s business\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/news\/celebration-of-world-food-safety-day-theme-food-safety-everyone-s-business\">everyone is busy<\/a> with their own work, but we still try our best to organize at least two trainings and three seminars for each area, and the result is satisfying.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\"><strong>Conclusion<\/strong><br \/>\nThe FLRPs were officially completed and reviewed by the NFGA in November 2021 and were officially issued to the three areas in April 2022. The <a title=\"Local Project Support\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/news\/local-project-support\">project team will continually support the local<\/a> application of the FLRPs while also helping experts to complete further work to summarize and compile the successful practice of FLRP in China. To showcase and summarize the project\u2019s success, the experiences will be consolidated in a book. With a tentative title of Practices from middle- and small-scale forest land restoration plans in China, the book is planned to be published in 2023.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">Huang Zhilin said, <a title=\"Restoring a transitional cloud forest in Costa Rica\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/news\/restoring-a-transitional-cloud-forest-in-costa-rica\">&#8220;Forest and land restoration<\/a> is still a new concept in China, and it is not enough to practice only in three areas. Although the duration of the <a title=\"Trends and projections: limited rebound in EU emissions amid post-pandemic recovery and energy crisis\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/news\/trends-and-projections-limited-rebound-in-eu-emissions-amid-post-pandemic-recovery-and-energy-crisis\">project is limited<\/a>, the experience can play a long-term role. We have summarized the process, technical methods and precautions in this book, hoping to provide support for more areas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The official release of forest and land restoration plans is a significant milestone in promoting forest and landscape restoration in the country. Forest land restoration plan investigation in Bijie, which experts are discussing based on map cartography. 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