ASSISTED NATURAL REGENERATION

Assisted Natural Regeneration (ANR) is presented as a middle ground between waiting for native vegetation to grow and costly tree planting. The strategy aims to reduce implementation costs by 77% and can potentially bring 240 million hectares under restoration worldwide. Implementation involves protecting regenerating plants from fire, fencing off areas, controlling invasive species and insects, and managing cattle. Success requires motivating stakeholders through social and economic benefits and enabling action via rural extension services, sustainable value chains, and political will. The document highlights the restoration of 9.6 million hectares in the Amazon and 794,000 hectares in the Cerrado.

• Assisted Natural Regeneration (ANR) is a strategy to restore degraded land at scale that is more efficient than waiting for native vegetation to grow or planting new trees, which can be too costly.
• Practical implementation of ANR involves several management actions: protecting regenerating plants from fire, isolating or fencing off areas, enriching with native species, controlling ants and other insects, managing cattle, and controlling invasive or exotic species.

APA

World Resources Institute (n.d.). ASSISTED NATURAL REGENERATION. https://files.wri.org/d8/s3fs-public/2022-03/anr-infographic.pdf

Chicago

World Resources Institute. ASSISTED NATURAL REGENERATION. n.d. https://files.wri.org/d8/s3fs-public/2022-03/anr-infographic.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{worldresourcesinstitutendassisted, author = {{World Resources Institute}}, title = {{ASSISTED NATURAL REGENERATION}}, institution = {World Resources Institute}, url = {https://files.wri.org/d8/s3fs-public/2022-03/anr-infographic.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }