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Focus Issue on Tropical Landscape Restoration

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If you are interested in contributing an article and for more details on the envisioned topics have a look at the official site:
The Focus Issue on Tropical Landscape Restoration appearing in the ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS Journal will be an important channel where we share our RESTORE+ project insights and results on the diversity of restoration related research activities of the project.

The focus issue is also open for related research within its scope (further details see link) and interested authors are invited to submit their research manuscripts.

Deadline: 31 December 2022
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RESTORE+ Annual Consortium Meeting
Online, 8th, 15th-16th June and 14th-15th July 2021

The RESTORE+ project consortium partners held the first virtual RESTORE+ Annual Consortium Meeting. Status quo updates and discussions took place in several online sessions throughout June and July.
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RESTORE+ launches Jelantara Campaign in Indonesia
South Sumatra, 18 November 2020 | East Kalimantan, 21 January 2021

Following the first batch of crowdsourcing campaigns that interpret satellite images into land cover information, the recently started Jelantara campaign aims to collect field data and verify it vis-à-vis the reality on the ground.
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Geo For Good 2020 virtual meetup
Online, 21 October 2020


During the virtual meetup, the project team shared lessons from automated land cover mapping for restoration assessment in Indonesia using the Google Earth Engine (GEE) platform.
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Expert Mapathon - Mapping the Potential of Restoration in Indonesia
Online, 8-11 June 2020

During a four-day online Mapathon, experts met to share their insights and expertise on visual interpretation for mapping the Potential of Restoration in Indonesia.
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Photo by IISD/ENB | Mike Muzurakis
RESTORE+ represented at key meeting of the Convention of Biological Diversity
Montreal, 25-29 November 2019


Approaches and early results from the RESTORE+ project were presented to participants during a side event at the 23rd meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), which took place in Montreal, Canada, 25-29 November 2019.
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Empowering Nationwide Public Participation for Restoration Assessment in Indonesia
Jakarta, 26 November 2019

RESTORE+ launched a national campaign to identify landscape restoration potential by using the tailormade crowdsourcing platform Urundata built by the project consortium. Urundata allows communities to be involved in efforts to restore forests and landscapes through mobile applications and thus contribute to scientific assessments supporting policy making efforts.
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RESTORE+ presented preliminary results at IUFRO 2019
Curitiba (Brazil) 29 September – 5 October 2019

A series of well attended RESTORE+ presentations and a dedicated RESTORE+ side-event has been held at the XXV IUFRO World Congress 2019 "Forest Research and Cooperation for Sustainable Development" in Curitiba, Brazil from 29 September - 5 October 2019.
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Second RESTORE+ crowdsourcing campaign launched
Palembang, Indonesia, 28 August 2019 | Samarinda, Indonesia, 5 September 2019

Since the launch of the first RESTORE+ crowdsourcing campaign in April this year, hundreds of students in South Sumatra and East Kalimantan supported forest restoration through the data collection platform Urundata. During the campaign’s official closure events, first results were presented and the second round of crowdsourcing was formally launched.
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RESTORE+ Mid-term meeting

Foz do Iguaçu, 25-27 September 2019

Halfway into the project, the RESTORE+ project consortium invited national stakeholders from Brazil, government representatives from Indonesia, as well as representatives of the broader international restoration community to participate in the project’s mid-term meeting in Foz do Iguaçu.

A dedicated mid-term page with more information including interim project results and a project mid-term report will follow shortly!
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RESTORE+ 2019 Consortium Meeting
Laxenburg, 29-30 April 2019

Two years after the kick-off workshop of the RESTORE+ project in April 2017 at IIASA, representatives of all partners have gathered in Laxenburg during 29 to 30 April 2019 to discuss the project’s progress and relevant next steps.
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RESTORE+ at OSM-GLP 2019
Bern, 24-26 April 2019


RESTORE+ has engaged with policymakers from different tropical regions who shared their perspectives on challenges of evidence-based policy making and how (scientific) experiences, developed within RESTORE+, can be communicated, implemented, and strengthened.​
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Launch of crowdsourcing campaign Urundata
Palembang, Indonesia, 11 April 2019

​RESTORE+ launched its pilot crowdsourcing campaign in Indonesia. The campaign uses a mobile application that allows contributions of the crowd to scientific assessments and supporting policy-making efforts. The platform is initiated by RESTORE+ consortium partners in Indonesia, with a vision that it be a nationally owned, collaborative data collection platform.l
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RESTORE+ contributed to the Indonesian Low Carbon Development Initiative (LCDI)
Indonesia, March 2019


​In Indonesia, the Low Carbon Development Initiative (LCDI) Report was launched. RESTORE+ contributed to the Report as part of its support to the formulation of the country’s next National Medium-Term Development Plan (RPJMN) 2020-2024.
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RESTORE+ received Bappenas delegation at IIASA
Laxenburg, 19-20 February 2019

From 19-20 February 2019 a high level delegation from the Indonesian Ministry of National Development Planning (Bappenas), visited IIASA for a two-day meeting, focused on RESTORE+ contribution to the formulation of the National Medium-Term Development Plan (RPJMN) 2020-2024.
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RESTORE+ at COP24
Katowice, 9-12 December 2018


At the UN Climate Change Conference (COP24) in Katowice, Poland, RESTORE+ gave an invited presentation at the Indonesian Pavilion and met with the Indonesian Minister of National Development Planning (Bappenas) on the progress of and next steps for supporting the National Medium-Term Development Plan (RPJMN) 2020-2024.
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Sub-National Consultation Meetings in Indonesia
Palembang, 19-20 April and 15-16 May | Samarinda, 22-23 May & 13 November 2018

RESTORE+ organized three workshops to consult relevant stakeholders of East Kalimantan and South Sumatra provinces on the proposed methodology for identifying landscape restoration areas. The events aimed to strengthen mutual understanding and engagement on forest and landscape restoration targets and strategies as well as collect learning and experience from the parties.
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RESTORE+ presents in IPEA'S Workshop
Brasília, 27 March 2018

IPEA (Institute of Applied Economic Research) organized a workshop that focused on the responsibility of the agricultural sector in Brazil to mitigating climate change. The RESTORE+ team gave presentations on the impacts of implementing the Forest Code in Brazil, of extending the soy moratorium to the Cerrado biome, and on the importance of improving land use classification tools.
More coverage: EMBRAPA, IPEA (Video)
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National Consultation Meeting in Indonesia
Jakarta, 28 November 2017

RESTORE+ organized a workshop to consult relevant stakeholders on planned approaches to assess landscape restoration options that will generate spatial data and quantitative information for policy makers. The event aimed at building common understanding on sustainable landscape restoration planning in Indonesia and seeked synergy between the RESTORE+ project with similar on-going or planned projects.
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RESTORE+ reports to Bappenas Minister
Bonn, 14 November 2017
 
During the UN Climate Change Conference (COP23) in Bonn, RESTORE+ reported to Indonesia's Minister of National Development Planning (Bappenas) on its plans and approaches in supporting the formulation the next National Medium-Term Economic Development Plan (RPJMN) 2020-2024.
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Dedicated session at IUFRO
Freiburg, 18-22 September 2017

RESTORE+ scholars presented the aim of the project and its approach at 125th IUFRO conference in a dedicated session titled “Integrating grassroots participation, crowd mobilization and big data analysis in forest restoration policy assessment in the tropics”.
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RESTORE+ Project Stakeholders Meetings in Brasília
Brasília, 13-14 September 2017

On 13 and 14 September 2017, Brazil’s RESTORE+ team held a series of technical meetings with representatives of Brazil’s Ministry of Environment (MMA), Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovation and Communications (MCTIC), and of WWF-Brazil.
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Joint capacity building activity in Indonesia
Bogor, 22-25 August 2017

RESTORE+ aims to inform key policies in Indonesia by identifying specific degraded areas with accompanying scenarios for restoration and sustainable utilization. To this end, working together with policy makers is required to ensure relevance and to better position the project in informing national policies such as the National Medium-Term Economic Development Plan (RPJMN) 2020-2024.
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Launching the RESTORE+ Project in Jakarta
Jakarta , 06 June 2017

IIASA together with Indonesia’s Ministry of National Development Planning (Bappenas), WRI Indonesia and ICRAF hosted the RESTORE+ project launch to stakeholders in Indonesia. The event puts emphasis on the synergy between RESTORE+ project activities with the formulation of Indonesia’s next National Medium‐Term Economic Development Plan (RPJMN) 2020-2024.
More coverage: Secretary of RAN-GRK, Mongabay
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Side Event at Bonn Climate Change Conference
Bonn, 17 May 2017

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and IIASA's Ecosystems Services and Management Program (ESM) co-hosted an event at the Bonn Climate Change Conference - May 2017. RESTORE+ was presented in the context of demonstrating the contribution of Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR) approaches to the achievement of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs).
More coverage: IIASA, IISD
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RESTORE+ participates in the 2017 Bonn Challenge Meeting
Palembang, 09-10 May 2017

The Bonn Challenge is a global effort to bring 150 million hectares of degraded and deforested land into restoration by 2020 and 350 million hectares by 2010. This initiative underpined Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR) to restore degraded land to its ecological functionality as well as enhancing human well-being.
​More coverage: IIASA

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RESTORE+ Kick-Off Workshop
Laxenburg, 18-20 April 2017


IIASA hosted the Kick-Off workshop of the RESTORE+ project to introduce the project approach, the planned activities and expected results. Project partners, government representatives and funding agencies came together to discuss concerns over restoration of degraded land and feedback on planned activities and the work plan.
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More coverage: IIASA, bisnis.com, Event files
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