We are restoring deforested and degraded landscapes in the Philippines to learn more about implementing reforestation projects in tropical countries. The project provides a living laboratory, a unique opportunity for research on key knowledge gaps on how to implement reforestation at scale with communities for socioeconomic and environmental benefits.

This project's primary goal is to restore some of the long-term rainforest plots that were established 70+ years ago by the Qld Dept of Forestry to study the effects of different forestry and silviculture practices on tree growth.

This project aims to use remote-sensing identification of eligible planting areas and planning for plantation establishment activities.

Through this project, we aim to demonstrate best-practice establishment of socioeconomic baselines and monitoring for impacts of community-based reforestation for carbon projects.

This project aims to give us an understanding of grass-seedling interactions and Imperata cylindrica ecology to maximise labour investment during tree planting and maintenance for improved seedling growth and survival.

The project's goal is to understand soil water availability across sloping, degraded tropical landscapes and how this varies across seasons in response to rainfall across wetter/drier periods. A combined approach integrating environmental monitoring data, soil sampling for stable water isotope analysis and drone-based multispectral, thermal and LiDAR data.

This project aims to provide a contemporary understanding of the concept, interventions, and impact of ANR restoration approach, analysing its carbon, biodiversity, and livelihood potentials as well as its constraints in the Philippines.

The primary goal of this project is to unravel drivers of variation in soil fungi and bacteria community characteristics through soil eDNA analysis across spatial and temporal scales in a dynamic of natural regeneration within minimally managed Acacia mangium plantations.

Research to understand how existing carbon pools across degraded tropical upland regions vary with land use history and abiotic characteristics. 

Research to understand the challenges and potential for developing effective incentivisation mechanisms, in the form of livelihoods, to engage people in large scale community-based reforestation. 

The primary goal of this project is to bridge the knowledge gap between inclusive value chain development (IVCD) and forest landscape restoration (FLR) using case studies in the Philippines.

The project's goal is to identify key health and safety risks for community-based reforestation projects in the tropics and effective mitigation measures to protect people and the environment. We aim to improve safety and efficiency of other community-based projects globally by sharing our experiences designing, implementing and iteratively revising HSSE agendas. 

The aim is to propose and assess the pros and cons of different institutional arrangement archetypes and mechanisms of collaboration on initiatives based on community-based reforestation for carbon. This work examines through a political economy and inter-sectional lenses potential opportunities and pitfalls for participating communities of existing arrangements promoting community-based reforestation in the context of carbon outcomes and consequences for effective, efficient, and equitable benefit-sharing results.

The primary goal of this project is to develop the interests, knowledge and skills of Tiwi Traditional Owners (from all eight clans) to participate in an Indigenous-led commercial native forestry industry, including supporting community capacity to operate viable place-based native forestry and timber processing/manufacturing enterprises.