Forest Landscape Restoration

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Context

The Joint Declaration of Intent (JDI) on Forest Landscape Restoration between India and Germany was signed virtually between Bhupender Yadav, Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, and Steffi Lemke, Federal Republic of Germany Minister for Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection.

What is the Background?

• Forest landscape restoration (FLR) is a continuous process of restoring ecological function and improving human well-being in deforested or degraded forest environments.
• FLR entails more than just planting trees; it also entails restoring an entire landscape to satisfy current and future requirements, as well as providing different benefits and land uses throughout time.

What is Bonn challenge?

• The Bonn Challenge is a global initiative aimed at restoring 150 million hectares of deforested and damaged land by 2020 and 350 million hectares by 2030.
• It was initiated in 2011 by the German government and the IUCN, and was later approved and expanded by the UN Climate Summit's New York Declaration on Forests in 2014.

What are the guiding principles?

• It focuses on landscape restoration rather than individual locations.
• Restore the ecological balance.
• Allow for a variety of advantages by proactively and properly growing tree cover throughout the terrain, it creates a range of ecosystem goods and services.
• It actively involves local stakeholders in choices on restoration goals, implementation techniques, and trade-offs, including landowners, land managers, communities, civil society, governments, and the commercial sector.
• It adjusts to the social, economic, and ecological conditions of the area. As a result, the "one-size-fits-all" concept is avoided.
• As environmental circumstances, human understanding, and society values change, it changes restoration techniques.
• Natural ecosystems should not be converted.

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