International Symposium on Forest and Landscape Restoration in NE Asia Participants Visited BFS Project Site in Miyun

On October 16, 2013, 15 participants of the International Symposium on Forest and Landscape Restoration in Northeast Asia visited BFS’s project site in Huayuan Village, Xinchenzi Township, Miyun County, which is in the northeast of Beijing. BFS staff introduced the project background, objectives and implementation to the delegates. The project is named “Livelihood and Landscapes Strategy (LLS)Better livelihoods, forests and watersheds in Miyun County”.  The initiative is a joint partnership between BFS and IUCN China liaison office. The project components include forest landscape restoration, livelihood development and small water body restoration.

The symposium was co-organized and hosted by Renmin University of China and FAO, and cosponsored by State Forestry Administration, Climate Change Centre. It was aimed to share best practices of national programmes/projects and appropriate FLR technologies to promote forest and landscape restoration/rehabilitation in the region, to explore how forest restoration/rehabilitation in the Northeast Asia region can contribute to sustainable livelihoods and to global forest and landscape restoration initiatives, and to raise awareness on FLR and its importance in the region.