Nepal’s seen success with community interest in and adoption of restoration as a response to many issues.
Of course, there’s gaps that need help from folks who understand restoration better - and a layering of the needs from both the biodiversity lens and the community’s economic needs (brilliant if it can be linked to increased biodiversity) must emerge.
A couple of new publications of interest by restoration ecologist Pooja Choksi and others here:
1. Measuring restoration biodiversity outcomes using soundscapes/acoustics in central India
Choksi, P., Kotian, M., Biniwale, S., Mourya, P., Korche, D., Agarwala, M., Khanwilkar, S., Ramesh, V. and DeFries, R. (2023), Listening for change: quantifying the impact of ecological restoration on soundscapes in a tropical dry forest. Restoration Ecology e13864. https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.13864
2. Combining socio-economic and biophysical data to identify people-centric restoration opportunities in India:
Choksi, P., Agrawal, A., Bialy, I. et al. Combining socioeconomic and biophysical data to identify people-centric restoration opportunities. npj biodivers 2, 7 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44185-023-00012-8