Restoring India’s Terrestrial Ecosystems: Needs, Challenges and Policy Recommendations
Manaswi Raghurama, Sumana Dutta, Tanaya Nair, Mahesh Sankaran, T.R. Shankar Raman, Divya Mudappa, Anand M. Osuri, Jagdish Krishnaswamy, Uma Ramakrishnan, Nitin Pandit, Pradip Krishen, Ashish Nerlekar, Ishan Agrawal, Paul Blanchflower, Noopur Borawake, Godwin Vasanth Bosco, Arundhati Das, Mandar N. Datar, Aparajita Datta, Arun Mani Dixit, Ketaki Ghate, Ankila Hiremath, Pankaj Joshi, Atul Joshi, Justus Joshua, Danish Khan, Vijay Kumar, Mayur Nandikar, Rohit Naniwadekar, Goutam Narayan, Vikram S. Negi, Siddharth Rao, Vasant Saberwal, Vivek Saxena, Anita Varghese, Aparna Watve, S.R. Yadav, Ravi Chellam, Kamal Bawa | 2023
Summary
India’s proposed ‘National Mission on Biodiversity and Human Well-being’, which aims to strengthen biodiversity science to comprehensively address major environmental challenges in the country, provides an ideal platform to promote and facilitate successful restoration of landscapes across India and achieve the ambitious restoration targets set through the Bonn Challenge.
This document is a product of the precursor phase of the National Mission on Biodiversity and Human Well Being and is the outcome of a series of stakeholder consultation meetings on ecological restoration of terrestrial landscapes and climate change in India. The insights from these meetings have been used to develop this document which highlights the challenges and best-practices in the restoration of terrestrial ecosystems, can serve as a guide for successful restoration of landscapes across different biomes of the Indian subcontinent, and help achieve India’s commitments to the Bonn Challenge and the goals set by India for biodiversity conservation, land restoration, climate mitigation and adaptation.