BioRestNet: a network of biocultural restoration
What are the current challenges of ecological restoration?
- Improved techniques of restoration
- Informed planning
- Geopolitical momentum
- Environmental justice
- Ecological knowledge gaps
How to pursue environmental justice and develop a competitive research agenda on restoration?
Traditional Ecological Knowledge - TEK
- Knowledge frontier
- Decolonal
- Would benefit from validation
- Mostly related to nature
TEK for Ecology
- Functional profile of useful species
- Functioning of managed ecosystems
- Role of secondary succession
- Technical recommendations
TEK for adding value to restoration
- Restoration for livelihoods
- Enforcement of TEK
- Environmental Justice
Why a network?
- It is the best way to scale up restoration
- Allows sharing of knowledge
- Strengthen actions
- Creates models
Core principles of Biocultural Approaches
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An example from the Brazilian Caatinga
- Culturally important species
- Database on plant uses
- Multiple benefits
- Maintain Caatinga natural features
Sena et al (2022)
Goals of the BioRestNet
- A worldwide database on TEK ontribution to restoration
- Ecological assessments of TEK
- Generate participatory models of restoration
Our experimental design in Kenya
