Resources

Kutai National Park in East Kalimantan, Indonesia, houses an incredible diversity of species including the Bornean Orangutan, but has suffered widespread deforestation and forest degradation. This IUCN report provides guidance on revising Kutai National Park’s existing restoration practices to better reestablish forest function, address the needs for threatened species, and to increase resilience to climate change

This book provides an overview of the 18,000 botanical specimens stored at the Wanariset Herbarium (WAN). The Herbarium is part of ELTI's focal training site in East Kalimantan, Indonesia.

This book consists of a collection of articles about the social dimensions of ecological restoration, which were presented during the Latin American and Caribbean Society of Ecological Restoration’s (known by its Spanish acronym as SIACRE) IV Iberoamerican and Caribbean Congress of Ecological Restoration, held in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2015. Two of the chapters were authored by ELTI personnel and collaborators, which illustrate ELTI’s efforts in forest restoration capacity building.Chapter 18 by Jacob L. Slusser and Saskia Santamaría: Strengthening the capacities of small farmers to implement sustainable ranching: the experience of the Association of Livestock and Agrosilvopastoral Producers of Pedasi (APASPE). Chapter 21 by Zoraida Calle, Gillian Sarah Bloomfield, Saskia Santamaría, Pedro Brancalion, Severino Ribeiro Pinto, Gabriela González, Marina Campos, Eva Garen, Jacob L. Slusser, Carlos Estrada: Capacity building experiences for ecological restoration in Latin America.

This chapter by Calle et al. describes the process and outcomes of a 25-year participatory research project that was carried out in partnership between CIPAV and farmers of a local community in El Dovio, Valle del Cauca, Colombia. The project was guided by integrated land management and the need to combine biodiversity conservation, ecological restoration, and sustainable use of natural resources. This Chapter 11 of the book entitled Beyond Restoration Ecology: Social Perspectives in Latin America and the Caribbean, which includes collection of articles about the social dimensions of ecological restoration, which were presented during the Latin American and Caribbean Society of Ecological Restoration’s (known by its Spanish acronym as SIACRE) IV Iberoamerican and Caribbean Congress of Ecological Restoration, held in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2015.