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A Multicountry Assessment of Tropical Resource Monitoring by Local Communities

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The study compared data collected on status and trends collected independently by local community members and trained scientists for 63 taxa and five types of resource use in 34 tropical forest sites over 2.5 years so examine the assumption that local people are less objective than external scientists when monitoring natural resources.

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Communal management as a strategy for restoring cloud forest landscapes in Andean Ecuador

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Does tree planting change minds? Assessing the use of community participation in reforestation to address illegal logging in West Kalimantan

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In this study, Pohnan et al. evaluated the social impacts of the local NGO Alam Sehat Lestari (ASRI) restoration program that took place in Gunung Palung National Park in West Kalimantan, Indonesia, an area that host numerous endangered species and that has been degraded by illegal logging for the past several decades.

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Trade-offs in nature tourism: contrasting parcel-level decisions with landscape conservation planning

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Local ecological knowledge of trees on farms, constraints and opportunities for further integratino in Tigray Region, northern Ethiopia: A Case Study of smallholder farmers in Abreha Wa Atsbeha and Adi Gudom

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Lattice-work corridors for climate change: a conceptual framework for biodiversity conservation and social-ecological resilience in a tropical elevational gradient

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Charaterization and Impact Assessment of Water Harvesting Techniques: A Case Study of Abreha Atsbeha Watershed, Tigray, Ethiopia

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Tropical Montane Forest Restoration in Costa Rica: Overcoming Bariers to Dispersal and Establishment

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Restoration of Ecosystem Carbon Stocks following Exclosure Establisment in Communal Grazing Lands in Tigray, Ethiopia

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The study examines changes in ecosystem Carbon stocks (ECS) after the establishment of exclosures on communal grazing lands.  Exclosures are areas where livestock are prohibited from grazing. 

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Targeted habitat restoration can reduce extinction rates in fragmented forests

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Building Pastoral and Agro-Pastoral Community Resilience Against Drought in the Context of the Paris Agreement: The Case of Isiolo County, Kenya

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Climate Change and Variability in the Mixed Crop/Livestock Production Systems of Central Ethiopian Highland

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Growth of native tree species planted in montane reforestation projects in the Colombian and Ecuadorian Andes differs among site and species

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La restauración de bosques andinos tropicales: Avances, desafíos y perspectivas del futuro

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La degradación ambiental y la pérdida de biodiversidad ponen en riesgo los medios de vida de habitantes de países andinos  tropicales. Respondiendo a esta amenaza, Colombia, Ecuador, Perú y Bolivia han definido metas cuantitativas de restauración ecológica y consecuentemente formulado programas para alcanzar estas metas. No obstante, esto ha presentado retos de distintas magnitudes variando de país en país.

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Módulo 1: Planificación para la implementación de prácticas de restauración a escala local

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Módulo 2: Selección y establecimiento de estrategias y prácticas de restauración

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Módulo 3: Selección de especies potenciales para la restauración

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Módulo 4: Practicando la restauración ecológica: el monitoreo y mantenimiento de áreas

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Módulo 5: El enfoque de paisaje en la planificación a mesoescala de la restauración

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Limited effects of tree planting on forest canopy cover and rural livelihoods in rural India

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