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🧰 Our work emphasizes that we already have many of the tools necessary to propel the terrestrial restoration movement forward. It is time to implement and assess their efficacy at scale.

🌱 These approaches have the potential to scale up forest landscape restoration by reducing or offsetting costs and improving cost-benefit ratios, while increasing restoration persistence. However, we need more data on the context-dependent cost-benefit ratio and feasibility of applying them.

🌳 Of the innovations assessed, increasing species diversity and integrating economic species in restoration plantings most frequently improved outcomes. However, each innovation has its own benefits and trade-offs that can help overcome specific restoration challenges.

📊 We found that these innovations frequently outperformed business-as-usual approaches, such as monoculture plantations, in speeding vegetation recovery.

🔎 We worked with an incredible group of restoration practitioners and ecologists to identify seven innovative assisted forest restoration approaches with potential to rapidly regenerate the world’s forests once scaled up.