[en]+[zh]Study on Forest Landscape Restoration - ITTO

5 Systematic approach to FLR 187
"The People's Republic of China Soil and Water Conservation Law" , protection
forests such as water conservation forest, soil and water conservation forest,
wind-breaking and sand-fixing forest should only be allowed harvested in
forms of t<strong>en</strong>ding and reg<strong>en</strong>eration. (8) Habitats for special species, areas liable
to rockfall, landslide and debris flow, as well as other sites of ecologically
important features should be protected or restored.
Based on these principles, priority sites of FLR initiative in Lingshui Li
Autonomous County were ind<strong>en</strong>tified (see Annex 1) after discussion and consultation
with differ<strong>en</strong>t stakeholders, including degraded primary forests, secondary
forests, degraded forest land, agricultural land with slope above 25 0 ,
forest corridors connecting secondary forest island (plaque), shelter belt
(gre<strong>en</strong> corridor) along the roadsides and river banks, water conservation forest
around the reservoir and farmland shelterbelts. Priorities sites of FLR in
Dagan FLR demonstration area include degraded primary forests, secondary
forests, degraded forest land, agricultural land with slope above 25 0 ,
plantation
connecting degraded primary forest and secondary forest (forest corridors
along ridge~), forest along the roadsides and river banks (see Annex 2) .
Forest landscape restoration planning is to arrange restoration interv<strong>en</strong>tions for
priority sites from the perspectives of time and space perspective and to implem<strong>en</strong>t
the planning relying on stakeholders.
5. 7 Developing site-level restoration strategies
The purpose of FLR is not to return forest landscapes to their original "pristine"
state, ev<strong>en</strong> if that were possible. Rather, it should be thought of as a
forward -looking approach that can help str<strong>en</strong>gth<strong>en</strong> the resili<strong>en</strong>ce i offorest landscapes
and keep future options op<strong>en</strong>. It is important to understafd that any individual
application of this approach will be a flexible packagJ of site-based
techniques - from pure ecological restoration through blocks oE plantations to
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planted on-farm trees - whose combined contribution will del~~er significant
landscape level b<strong>en</strong>efits. The site-level techniques can include!: the rehabilitation
and active managem<strong>en</strong>t of degraded primary forest, the ~ctive
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managem<strong>en</strong>t
of secondary forest growth, the restoration of primary forest-related functions
in degraded forest lands, the promotion of natural reg<strong>en</strong>erationin degraded
lands and marginal agricultural sites, ecological restoration, plantations