#assisted-natural-regeneration
Issues, solutions, and case studies for assisted-natural-regeneration
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Solutions 5
#00331Use climate-adapted diverse restoration where recovery needs help
Restore sites that are not recovering with diverse, locally appropriate species and structures suited to plausible future climate and fire regimes.
#00329Monitor natural post-fire recovery before intervening
Track vegetation, soil, habitat and invasive species after fire so restoration is used where natural recovery is inadequate rather than by default.
#00287Restore peatland vegetation after rewetting
Re-establish locally appropriate peat-forming and wetland vegetation after hydrological repair to stabilize the site and support long-term recovery.
#00193Revive traditional rainwater-harvesting and recharge structures through village labor and ownership
Villages build and own earthen johads, contour trenches, sand dams, infiltration canals and ponds with NGO facilitation. Cheap per structure and compounding at catchment scale, but success hinges on hydrogeological siting, maintenance institutions and demand rules.
#00116Prioritise assisted natural regeneration and protecting standing forest over transplanting nursery seedlings
Where land was recently forested, protect and prune regrowth from surviving roots and seed banks (assisted/farmer-managed natural regeneration) rather than transplanting nursery seedlings — far cheaper, with site-adapted species. Intact standing forest should take priority, as it
Case studies 5
Indonesian Peatland Restoration Agency and successor institutions with regional partners · National
Following the 2015 peat-fire crisis, Indonesia established a dedicated Peatland Restoration Agency to implement canal blocking, rewetting, and community-based restoration across priority peatland regions. Implementation…
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Kitui County, Kenya
FailedNGOs and donors with local communities (96 percent of dams donor-funded) · since 1995 · Region
Kitui County hosts over 1,000 sand dams built since the 1990s across seasonal riverbeds — the world's densest concentration — making it the best-documented test case for sand dam performance at scale. Independent survey…
Overwhelmingly donor grants (96 percent donor-funded) · 2 sources
Campesino communities with Aquafondo, The Nature Conservancy and CONDESAN · since 2015 · Region
Amunas are pre-Inca infiltration canals in the Peruvian highlands that divert wet-season streamflow onto permeable slopes, where water infiltrates and resurfaces downslope months later, extending dry-season availability…
MERESE mechanism: approximately 1 percent of Lima water tariffs earmarked for upstream ecosystem services · 1 source
Maharashtra, India
PartialPaani Foundation (Satyamev Jayate Water Cup) with participating villages · 2016–2019 · Region
From 2016 to 2019 the Paani Foundation ran the Satyamev Jayate Water Cup: 45-day competitions in which villages raced to build watershed structures (contour trenches, bunds, ponds) through shramdaan (voluntary labor). P…
Paani Foundation with village voluntary labor (shramdaan); parallel state program Jalyukt Shivar spent approx. Rs 9,634 crore of public funds
Tarun Bharat Sangh (TBS) with village communities; led by Rajendra Singh · since 1985 · Region
Since 1985, Tarun Bharat Sangh facilitated village-built earthen recharge ponds (johads) across Alwar district, Rajasthan. The model requires 25–33% village labor/cash contribution per structure to anchor ownership. Typ…
NGO and donor funds with 25 to 33 percent village contribution per johad · 1 source