Webinar: Enhancing landscape restoration with nature-positive economies through sustainable use of wild plants and fungi
3rd June 2025
Enhancing landscape restoration with nature-positive economies through sustainable use of wild plants and fungi
Where: Online – please register here.
Date/Time: Tuesday 3 June, 1pm – 2pm BST
To be sustainable in the long-term, landscape restoration must benefit people as well as achieve conservation goals. Generation of economic, social and cultural benefits from sustainable use of wild plants and fungi can help incentivise a shift from the overexploitation of wild species that is driving the degradation of European landscapes, and strengthen the argument for creating nature-rich biodiverse landscapes through restoration action.
On Tuesday 3rd June, TRAFFIC will be launching the guidance developed in partnership with FairWild Foundation, The Global Biodiversity Standard, and the IUCN SSC/CEESP Sustainable Use and Livelihoods Specialist Group under the ELSP-funded Advancing Restoration Knowledge Project on “Best practices for integrating the sustainable trade in wild plants and fungi into landscape restoration”.
The project team will share an overview of the tools developed, which can support you with:
- Designing and implementing restoration projects which provide long-term socio-economic benefits for people.
- Determining if integrating the sustainable use of wild species can support your project goals.
- Identifying wild plants and fungi of commercial importance in your restoration landscape.
- Assessing which of these species could be the most appropriate for sustainable harvest and trade.
- Developing ecological and social safeguards for legal and sustainable harvests and addressing unsustainable harvesting.