Projects

Our collaboration with RBG-Kew continues with graduate student scholarships in seed supply, seed thermotolerance, data-deficient species and genetics. Under this project, we are also assisting Indonesian scientists to establish a FORRU at Mnt Ciremai in Java.

Compiling FORRU-CMU's datasets, to develop models to assist with species-selection decision making.

Continued support for the community tree Nursery at Ban Mae Sa - tree production, research and education from the Rajapruek Institute Foundation

Providing secondary school teachers and their pupils with science-based skills, knowledge and technical support, enabling their involvement in effective forest ecosystem restoration. Free teaching on seed collection, germination and growing trees in nurseries.

The SIMPLE Project is building virtual forests to bring the forest restoration experience into classrooms

This project supports maintenance and monitoring at several restoration plots in the upper Mae Sa Valley, as well as research on the effects of restoration on forest carbon and biodiversity recovery.

Nan's Restored Forests; testing the framework species method of forest restoration in Nan's highly fragmented landscape. Tree diversity, density & phenology and bird diversity are compared between restored sites and reference forest.

This project strengthened forest-related higher education in Laos and Thailand, by developing new learning and teaching tools (including online teaching) to build capacity for forest-ecosystem restoration and sustainable management for improving rural livelihoods.

Enhancing the capacity of Karen communities in the Kawthoolei region of Myanmar to implement forest-ecosystem restoration and sustainable forest management

Assisting a local school to offset their carbon footprint, whilst also collecting data on performance of candidate framework tree species for restoring bamboo-deciduous forest.

Testing the effects of biochar on the performance of planted framework tree species—in collaboration with Doi Suthep Nature Center (DSNC), Pong Yaeng running club.

“Forests on Blackboards” (FoB) develops educational materials to enable school children to get involved in tackling local environmental problems, including teachers' manuals and e-learning tools.

Multiple projects undertaken to develop a framework species approach to restoring Thailand's rarest forest type-lowland evergreen forest-home of the critically endangered Gurney's Pitta.

This project created an original knowledge-base to restore bamboo-deciduous forest in Western Thailand, particularly to create habitat for elephant conservation and to reduce human-elephant conflicts around the Salakpra Conservation Area, Kanchanaburi Province.

Thailand's Supreme Command, in collaboration with IUCN and FORRU-CMU (Forest Restoration Research Unit, Chiang Mai University), aims to restore forest on 1,440 ha of degraded land at Doi Mae Salong (DMSL), Chiang Rai Province.

In collaboration with WWF Thailand Program and with financial support from King Power, Forest Restoration Unit successfully established a forest landscape restoration (FLR) demonstration site and promoted the concept to visiting groups.

Field trials, to determine if the framework species method could be used to restore lowland deciduous forest. The project supported two research tree nurseries and 2 lowland field trial plot systems.

FORRU-CMU assisted Doi Suthep-Pui National park authority to enrich an aging plantation of Cupressus torulosa D.Don (Cupressaceae) with indigenous tree species, with and without thinning the plantation.