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Journal article
Bringing the forest back: Restoration priorities in Colombia
Diversity & Distributions, Vol.30(4), pp.1-16
2024
Abstract
Aim
Colombia has committed to ambitious forest restoration targets which include a 1 million ha Bonn Challenge commitment and 6.47–8.31 million ha (rehabilitation and restoration, respectively) under the National Restoration Plan. Determining where and how to implement programs to achieve these targets remains a significant challenge.
Location
Colombia.
Methods
We adopt a multi-objective optimisation framework for restoration planning and apply it to Colombia. We explore cost-effective solutions that leverage the potential for assisted natural regeneration benefits while accounting for opportunity and establishment costs of restoration and maximising biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation benefits. We explore four politically relevant restoration area-based targets (1, 6, 6.47 and 8.31 million ha) and identify minimum cost, and suites of maximum benefit and cost-effective solutions.
Results
We identify solutions that simultaneously perform well across biodiversity and carbon objectives, despite trade-offs between these objectives. We find that cost-effective solutions can achieve on average 91.1%, 90.8%, 90.5% and 90.1% of maximum carbon benefit and 100% of the maximum biodiversity benefit while significantly reducing costs. On average, the cost-effective solutions reduce the cost by 87.5%, 56.8%, 59.6% and 46.2% compared to the maximum benefit solutions considering one, six, 6.47 and 8.31 million ha restoration targets, respectively.
Main Conclusions
Colombia has committed to bold restoration and conservation targets, such as those under the new 2030 Convention on Biological Diversity Global Biodiversity Framework. Strategic forest restoration planning will play an important role in achieving Colombia's biodiversity conservation and climate mitigation goals. We provide quantitative evidence to inform planning for environmentally and economically sensible restoration policy and practice in the country. Our framework and results can help guide Colombia towards meeting its ambitious forest restoration targets cost-effectively.
Details
- Title
- Bringing the forest back: Restoration priorities in Colombia
- Authors
- Brooke A. Williams (Corresponding Author) - The University of QueenslandSofia Lopez-Cubillos - The University of QueenslandJose Manuel Ochoa-Quintero - Alexander von Humboldt Biological Resources Research InstituteRenato Crouzeilles - Universidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroMarcelo Villa-Pineros - Alexander von Humboldt Biological Resources Research InstitutePaola Johanna Isaacs Cubides - Alexander von Humboldt Biological Resources Research InstituteMarina Schmoeller - Institute for Capacity Exchange in Environmental Decisions (Australia)Wilmer Marin - Alexander von Humboldt Biological Resources Research InstituteAnazelia Tedesco - The University of QueenslandDiego Bastos - Institute for Capacity Exchange in Environmental Decisions (Australia)Andres Felipe Suarez-Castro - Alexander von Humboldt Biological Resources Research InstituteLuis Hernando Romero Jimenez - Alexander von Humboldt Biological Resources Research InstituteEben N. Broadbent - University of FloridaAngelica M. Almeyda Zambrano - University of FloridaJeffrey R. Vincent - Duke UniversityYuanyuan Yi - Peking UniversityRobin L. Chazdon - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Tropical Forests and People Research CentreJames E. M. Watson - The University of QueenslandElkin Alexi Noguera Urbano - Alexander von Humboldt Biological Resources Research InstituteCristian Alexander Cruz Rodriguez - Alexander von Humboldt Biological Resources Research InstituteHawthorne L. Beyer - Institute for Capacity Exchange in Environmental Decisions (Australia)
- Publication details
- Diversity & Distributions, Vol.30(4), pp.1-16
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
- Date published
- 2024
- DOI
- 10.1111/ddi.13821
- ISSN
- 1472-4642; 1366-9516
- Copyright note
- © 2024 The Authors. Diversity and Distributions published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- Data Availability
- Species distribution models not yet publicly available for download are available upon request from Instituto Humboldt (the Humboldt Institute) jochoa@humboldt.org.co. All maps and solutions produced from this analysis are publicly available from http://weplan-colombia.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/ (hosted by Instituto Humboldt). All code and input data to reproduce the analysis are available from https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.vx0k6djz1. All other data are publicly available from the source links provided in the text.
- Organisation Unit
- Tropical Forests and People Research Centre; Forest Research Institute
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991010098402621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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