Maintenance and Monitoring of Restoration Sites

This is a follow up of the PTEI project covered earlier, which was successfully concluded at the end of 2008. The project has three primary objectives:

1. to maintain and protect five restoration sites through established eco-restoration committees and replant and replace dead saplings where necessary;
2. to monitor sapling survival and growth in these sites to draw lessons about the restoration strategies followed;
3. to build upon existing links with the Forest Department and District Administration and push for community based habitat restoration as at a policy level.

Most of all this project will strengthen established links with the local communities who have contributed substantially to the achievements of the earlier project and who ultimately control the fate of these sites.