BioRestNet: a network of biocultural restoration

Felipe Melo

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
  • Decolonial
  • Would benefit from validation
  • Mostly related to nature

TEK for Assessing Landscapes

  • Participatory mapping
  • Landscape Biographies
  • Unforseen landscape metrics

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

source: Gavin et al 2015

An example from the Brazilian Caatinga

  • Culturally important species
  • Database on plant uses
  • Multiple benefits
  • Maintain Caatinga natural features

Sena et al (2022)

Toscano et al (under review)

Goals of the BioRestNet

  • A worldwide database on TEK ontribution to restoration
    • Plants & Animals
    • inspired on TRY and GlobUNT
  • Ecological assessments of TEK
  • Generate participatory models of restoration

Experimental Design of the BioRestNet in Kenya

Module 1 - Biocultural Inventory

Question: What are the plants and animals that contribute more to both ecosystem functioning and livelihoods?

Assessment of Culturally Important Species

source: Conservation through Reconciliation

Asembling of databases of Culturally Important Species

Reyes-Garcia 2023

Meaniningful Functional Traits

Module 2 - Landscape Scale

Question: How landscape features affects biodiversity and livelihoods in the Savannah?

Assessing Working Landscapes

  • The Land Degradation Surveillance Framework (LDSF)
  • 100km² landscapes
  • 16 cluster
  • 10 plots per cluster

Workflow of the LDSF

We want to add Landscape Biograpahies and gender-based mapping

Module 3 - Local manipulative experiment

  • Simulate biodiversity
  • Functional diversity
  • Measure Ecosystem Functions

How to mainstream Biocultural Restoration?

  • What are the best landscape perspectives?
  • How to integrate TEK into productive restoration models?
  • How to create an effetive network of Biocutlural Restoration?

Asante Sana

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  • BioRestNet: a network of biocultural restoration
  • What are the current challenges of ecological restoration?
  • How to pursue environmental justice and develop a competitive research agenda on restoration?
  • Traditional Ecological Knowledge - TEK
  • TEK for Assessing Landscapes
  • TEK for Ecology
  • TEK for adding value to restoration
  • Why a network?
  • Core principles of Biocultural Approaches
  • An example from the Brazilian Caatinga
  • Toscano et al (under...
  • Goals of the BioRestNet
  • Experimental Design of the BioRestNet in Kenya
  • Module 1 - Biocultural Inventory
  • Question: What are the plants and animals that contribute more to both ecosystem functioning and livelihoods?
  • Assessment of Culturally Important Species
  • Asembling of databases of Culturally Important Species
  • Meaniningful Functional Traits
  • Module 2 - Landscape Scale
  • Question: How landscape features affects biodiversity and livelihoods in the Savannah?
  • Assessing Working Landscapes
  • Workflow of the LDSF
  • Module 3 - Local manipulative experiment
  • How to mainstream Biocultural Restoration?
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