Our experts have selected the most useful and accessible resources for getting up to speed on ANR:

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A status report on Assisted Natural Regeneration: What, why, who, where, and how?

In this ANR Alliance white paper, experts summarize the current "state of the art" of Assisted Natural Regeneration, focusing especially on forest, woodland, and savanna ecosystems in the world’s tropical and subtropical regions.
ANR Alliance
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Guide: Assisted Natural Regeneration: A Guide for Restoring Tropical Forests

Innovative and cost-effective ways of restoring forests are urgently needed to meet global restoration and climate targets, and provide forest benefits at scale. Assisted natural regeneration (ANR) works with natural recovery processes to reforest degraded landscapes. Where the conditions are right, it holds great promise to restore biodiverse forests at scale.
Conservation International
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The Benefits and Power of Assisted Natural Regeneration

In accessible language, this short article explores what ANR is, why it’s important, and how people are doing it. It’s the best place to start.
World Resources Institute
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Achieving cost-effective landscape-scale forest restoration through targeted natural regeneration

This journal article establishes the vast opportunity for ANR in Brazil, calculates how much money it could save the country’s restoration movement, and demonstrates how much carbon these newly regrown forests could restore.
Conservation Letters
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Partnering with Nature: The case for natural regeneration in forest and landscape restoration

This information brief makes specific recommendations for policy changes that could enhance the role of natural regeneration in restoration programs.
FERI and UN Biodiversity
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How to Deliver Forest Restoration at Scale

A policy brief describing the importance of assisted natural regeneration as a cost-effective approach to achieve forest restoration at scale.
Conservation International
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Restoring forest landscapes through assisted natural regeneration (ANR) – A practical manual

This manual describes procedures from almost 20 years of FAO experience with ANR in the Philippines, Cambodia, Indonesia, and Lao PDR.
FAO