Strategies for Landscape-Scale Restoration in the Tropics
By Yale International Society of Tropical Foresters
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Description
From January 26 to 28, 2012, the Yale Chapter of the International Society of Tropical Foresters convened practitioners and researchers from government, academia, and environmental and development institutions from around the globe for information exchange on challenges and emerging strategies in scaling-up restoration in the tropics to provide ecosystem services and benefit biodiversity and local livelihoods. The three-day conference took place in Kroon Hall at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES) in New Haven, Connecticut.
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Introduction to ELTI Tropical Reforestation Information Clearinghouse/Database | The Environmental Leadership & Training Initiative (ELTI) is a joint program of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES) and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI). | 6/12/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Full Conference: Strategies for Landscape-Scale Restoration in the Tropics | The three-day conference took place in Kroon Hall at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES) in New Haven, Connecticut. | 6/12/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Large-Scale Tropical Forest Restoration – Necessary Policies and Important Research Questions | Considerable reforestation was undertaken around the world in the second half of the twentieth century. Nonetheless, very large areas of degraded land and forest still remain present across the tropics. | 6/12/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Road Ahead: Scaling-Up Restoration Successes to the Landscape Level | The conference’s concluding panel discussion among all panelists, which served to synthesize conference outcomes and set steps for moving forward with priorities for realizing landscape-scale restoration. | 6/12/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Role of Old Maps & Nursery Entrepreneurs in Restoration of Forests in Eastern & Southern Africa | We discuss two specific inputs aimed to increase restoration success in Eastern and Southern Africa. While deforestation in this part of Africa has been severe it is also an area that is blessed with old maps and nursery entrepreneurs. | 6/12/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Community-Based Monitoring of Mahogany Regeneration & Applications of Hand-Held DNA Timber-Tracking | Many of the same criteria apply to forest restoration and community-based forest management--particularly in vulnerable tropical forests where the two are often closely intertwined. | 6/12/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Panel 4 Discussion: Scaling Up and Applying Lessons Learned | 4th Panel discussion moderated by Tim Rollinson, Director General of the U.K. Forestry Commission, Chair of the Global Partnership on Forest Landscape Restoration. | 6/12/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Restoring Landscapes, Governing Space | Forest landscape restoration seems to have become a new hype. | 6/12/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Mechanized Planting of Forests: Innovation and Scale in the Xingu, Central Brazil | The Xingu is famous worldwide, not only for the Amazon forest and its border with the Brazilian savannah, but for the cultural richness of its oldest inhabitants: 24 distinct indigenous ethnicities, who still live, drink, bathe and fish in Xingu’s wat | 6/12/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Opportunities & Challenges of Policies for Tropical Forest Restoration | There is a great deal of political momentum behind policy incentives to reduce deforestation and restore tropical ecosystems. | 6/12/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Atlantic Forest Restoration Pact: A Major Effort by Brazilian Society to Restore & Transform Its Most Threatened Biome | The Brazilian Atlantic Forest is one of the five top priority conservation areas in the world, due to its exceptional biological diversity, very high levels of endemism, and equally high levels of human pressure, hence a dramatically threatened future. | 6/12/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Panel 3 Discussion: Economic Viability of Landscape-Scale Initiatives | 3rd panel discussion moderated by Chadwick Dearing Oliver of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. | 6/12/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Certified Cocoa as a Strategy for Ecosystem Restoration in the Amazon Forest of São Felix do Xingu, Pará, Brazil | The municipality of São Felix do Xingu, in the Brazilian Amazon State of Para is considered a “deforestation Hotspot” due to the expansion and low efficiency of cattle raising. | 6/12/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Panel 2 Discussion: Economic Viability of Landscape-Scale Initiatives | 2nd Panel discussion moderated by Cullman fellow, Jeff Stoike. | 6/12/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Making tropical forest succession successful: 2nd Conference Keynote | Tropical forest succession follows distinct pathways depending on prior land use, post-abandonment disturbance, faunal diversity, and the dynamics of the surrounding landscape. | 6/12/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Private Sector Investment Model in Mixed Native Species Agroforestry Plantations with Indigenous Communities & Small Landowners | Two of the main barriers to adoption of small scale forestry by smallholders and indigenous communities in Panama are 1. The lack of revenue generated by the stands early on, and 2. Resistance to new management models. | 6/12/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Restoration Initiatives in the Lowland Tropics of Central America | BARCA is a company that works in reforestation and also in restoration in the Central American tropics. Its main restoration projects have been with mix native valuable forest species planted in mosaic patterns and also in mixed planting designs. | 6/12/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Panel 1 Discussion: Forest Regeneration in Human-Modified Landscapes | 1st Panel discussion moderated by Cullman Fellow, Alder Keleman. | 6/12/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Subsistence Agriculture Can Foster Forest Restoration in the Tropics: Quintana Roo, Mexico | Quintana Roo, Mexico is more than 70% forested and harbors important populations of jaguar, tapir, monkeys and pumas. | 6/12/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Long-Term Patterns in Restoring Forest Diversity and Structure after Burning, Farming & Logging in Kibale National Park, Uganda | Despite increasing loss and degradation of tropical rainforest, conservationists frequently overlook the ability of disturbed forest to conserve biodiversity. | 6/12/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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A Strategy for Scaling-Up Intensive Silvopastoral Systems in Colombia | Silvopastoral systems (SPS) enhance milk and meat production, reduce costs and are instrumental for the productive rehabilitation of degraded lands. The scaling-up of such systems requires incentives to address financial and knowledge barriers. | 6/12/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Reshaping the Landscape for Forests and People: 1st Conference Keynote | Landscape restoration and sustainable forest management can only be achieved when all stakeholders, including governments, private institutions and local communities, work together using a cross-sectoral, cross-institutional strategy at a landscape leve | 6/12/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Introduction to ISTF Conference | An introduction to the three-day conference convening world leaders on forest restoration by the Dean of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. | 6/12/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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