Biodiversity guidelines for forest landscape restoration opportunities assessments

Biodiversity is inherent in forest landscape restoration. As global initiatives like the Bonn Challenge and New York Declaration on Forests inspire nations to pursue sustainable landscapes and economic growth, on the ground, biodiversity binds people and nature to their shared future. Restoring ‘forward’ to meet current and future landscape challenges requires novel approaches and nature-based solutions. Restoration has the potential to generate billions in economic returns and to mitigate many of the effects of humaninduced climate change. But, at its core, restoration should support biodiversity and the species, genes and ecosystems of which it is composed and that provide services directly or indirectly to people