ITTO Guidelines for the Restoration, Management, and Rehabilitation of Degraded and Secondary Tropical Forests

background

This guide provides detailed information on the tools and concepts for rehabilitating and managing degraded forests and secondary forests. These lands have an often unrecognized ability and potential for providing valuable ecosystem services and provisioning timber, NTFPs, and other goods.

Conclusions & Takeaways

The authors provide a discussion of the variety of functions, roles and uses of degraded and secondary forests as well as management strategies that can address different social, economic, and ecological objectives. The text describes a) policy, planning and management principles and recommended actions, and b) stand-level principles and recommended actions. In the Annex, there is a list of promising species to use in restoration, management, and rehabilitation of these forests; these species are divided by forest type and geographic location.