Reforestation & agroforestryActive

Alianza por el Millón

Panama's national restoration alliance, formally launched when then-President Juan Carlos Varela signed an agreement in October 2014, is run by the Ministry of Environment together with business groups, the conservation NGO ANCON, and technical partners CATIE and GIZ.

National, PanamaMixed forest and riparian landscapenone (national programme, not a registry project)
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Boquete Cloud Forest 2. Location context only; not a photograph of project implementation.Location context · Paul Ottaviano · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 2018 · Resized; display cropImage source ↗Licence ↗
OperatorMinistry of Environment (MiAmbiente), public-private alliance
EcosystemMixed forest and riparian landscape
Standardnone (national programme, not a registry project)
StatusActive
LocationNational, Panama
Overview

Inside the project

Its stated target is restoring one million hectares between 2015 and 2035 through four approaches: conserving natural forest, restoring riparian buffers, restoring degraded land outright, and building sustainable commercial forestry.

By its own reporting, more than 5 million native trees have been planted nationwide with a 70% survival rate, and restoration work has begun on more than 40,000 hectares.

1,000,000 ha
Restoration goal (2015-2035)
5,000,000+
Native trees planted
70%
Survival rate
40,000+ ha
Restoration begun

Objectives

  • Restore 1,000,000 ha nationally between 2015 and 2035
  • Plant native trees with high survival rates
  • Restore riparian buffers and degraded land

Approach

  • A public-private restoration alliance combining forest conservation, riparian and degraded-land restoration, and sustainable forestry.

Sources

Inspect 2 sources
  1. initiative20x20.org ↗https://initiative20x20.org/restoration-projects/alianza-por-el-millon-panamas-restoration-movement
  2. caf.com ↗https://www.caf.com/en/currently/news/caf-supports-panamas-goal-of-reforesting-a-million-hectares/

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