Restoring Tropical Forests: a Practical Guide

Available in English, Spanish and French

Restoring Tropical Forests is a hands-on guide to restoring degraded tropical forest ecosystems. Based on concepts and innovative techniques developed at Chiang Mai University, Thailand, this book provides advice and clearly illustrated instructions, covering every stage of forest restoration, including: site selection and survey, engaging local communities, fund raising, formulating and implementing project plans, running a tree nursery, planting trees and monitoring progress. It also explains how to carry out research to refine restoration methods and adapt them to local ecological and socio-economic conditions. Restoring Tropical Forests is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in restoring tropical forests, including practitioners, researchers, students and policy makers. Foreword by HRH Prince of Wales.

HRH The Prince of Wales - "I can only congratulate the authors for their achievement and wish all those who implement its clear practical measures on how to restore tropical forests around the world - in South and  Central America, Africa and Asia – every possible success in their vitally important endeavours. Nature has a remarkable capacity, if given half a chance, to recover and renew herself and it is for this reason, above all, that I believe this book to be so very welcome. I am particularly drawn to its emphasis on the need to restore rich tropical forests, wherever possible with native species; its description of how best to engage local communities in restoration efforts and its focus on the need for landscape and silvopastoral approaches to forest restoration, all of which seem to me absolutely crucial".

For country-specific manuals for SE Asian countries please check out "How to Plant a Forest".