Every year, a forest area the size of Greece1 is lost. More than 80% of the world’s forests have been cleared, fragmented or degraded. The world’s biodiversity and climate, and the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people are under serious threat.The book Principles and Practice of Forest Landscape Restoration: Case studies from the drylands of Latin America, edited by A.C. Newton and N. Tejedor, is an excellent compendium of case studies and analysis, which will be of interest and use to people who wish to move forest landscape restoration forward, no matter what country they operate in.
Practitioners and policy-makers working on forest landscape restoration are learning all the time, through experience, and from each other. It is important to continue to connect partners and collaborators around the world, from Scotland to Sudan and Moldova to Mexico, in a growing community of practice, enabling them to spread best practice, build cooperation and exchange new ideas and solutions.